Gattuso clearly wants Zlatan to attack him next

Since joining Milan, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has physically attacked a number of his teammates. First there was Rodney Strasser, then Robinho, Oguchi Onyewu and, most recently, Antonio Cassano. Not to mention international teammate Christian Wilhelmsson. So to be a teammate of his AND publicly say something about him that he might not appreciate, you pretty much have to be looking for a fight. Which is why Rino Gattuso did just that.

From Soccernet:

Ibrahimovic helped Milan to win the Scudetto last season with 14 goals, but Gattuso claims that a player of his class should be getting at least twice that number.

"Someone like Ibra in Italy should score 30 goals a season," Gattuso told La Gazzetta dello Sport. "For a player of his ! quality, he scores too little."

Oh snap! (Coincidentally, that's also the sound you hear when Zlatan kicks someone.)

It looks like Gattuso's tiff with Joe Jordan last season was just a warm-up for the headbutts v martial arts kicks fight to the death he's trying to start with Ibra. Antonio Cassano might want to start wearing a helmet.

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