Can you earn 14 million euros net a year and be homeless? Hard to believe, especially if your name is Zlatan Ibrahimovic and live in Paris. Yet the Swede, who for the past three months has "married" in France to wear the shirt of Ancelotti's ambitious PSG, is still to all intents and purposes what beyond the Alps they call an SDF (no fixed domicile).
Sure, a luxury vagabond, and a little more capricious than someone who doesn't have a home because they can't afford it: according to Le Figaro in fact the former AC Milan striker he would have already visited the beauty of 80 apartments since last July, without anyone going to his liking. It must also be said that Ibra had also found a house immediately, the chic Villa Montmorency, a stone's throw from the Parc des Princes stadium, in the heart of the 16th arrondissement, definitely the coolest neighborhood in the French capital. The Paris Saint Germain star, already 9 goals in the five matches he played in Ligue 1, would have as neighbors none other than the former presidential couple Carla and Nicolas Sarkozy, the Canadian artist Celine Dion and the well-known transalpine financier Vincent Bolloré.
The fact is, however, that the owner of the sumptuous residence, having learned who the new tenant would be, tried to take advantage of the situation by raising the rent with suspicious timing: in theory, nothing to frighten Ibrahimovic's pharaonic bank account , who however, annoyed, turned elsewhere. From the suite of the Intercontinental Hotel in Place de l'Opéra, where he has been temporarily staying with his family for three months, the footballer has therefore set out on the hunt for the fateful residence, even launching a appeal during its hosted on the popular sports broadcast "Téléfoot" at the end of September: "I'm looking for a house, but please, no scams!".
What might seem like an absurd little theater actually has a logical explanation in the dynamics of the real estate market, as agent Christine Pelosse of the Homelike Home agency explained to the French newspaper: "It seems unthinkable, given the budget available, but according to the criteria demanded by this type of client, there are not many properties in Paris that correspond exactly to the requests. Furthermore, the more famous you are, the more the owners take advantage of it, not to mention the confusion often caused by the intrusion of the star's own entourage, or the distrust, in the case of timeshares, of some condominiums in having celebrities or of sport, fearful of possible night revelry”.
So where do we marry "poor" Ibrahimovic? “Obviously in the 16th, then it's up to him to find the right accommodation. I I would see it well on Avenue Victor Hugo, for a reserved character like him it is better than the Marais or the 17th”. Oh yes, what a problem…
