Eric Bailly jokingly kicks Man United teammate Zlatan Ibrahimovic

The plate of chicken salad, with a little label that said ‘Zlatan’, lay on the canteen counter at Manchester United’s Aon Training Complex. Staff had long since departed, the lights had been turned off and most of Jose Mourinho’s players had long since retired to their mansions.But not the big Swede. First in, last out - that was Ibrahimovic’s routine. Such was his dedication that those who worked in United’s kitchen were under instructions to plate up his food and leave it on the top, because by the time he had finished on the practice fields and in the gym, there would be nobody left in the building to serve him. He often ate alone.