Zlatan Ibrahimovic will stay at newly crowned Serie A champions Inter Milan next season, club CEO Ernesto Paolillo said Monday.
''Ibrahimovic is staying next season. I am not worried,'' Paolillo told Italian radio.
The Sweden star sparked fresh speculation about his future during Inter's celebrations for its 17th and fourth straight scudetto Sunday, saying: ''I'm certainly not the kind of guy who stays with the same club all his life''.
But Paolillo downplayed the fuss, saying such ''nervy'' statements were the ''kind of things great champions say, showing a desire to be at the top all the time''.
Paolillo confirmed coach Jose' Mourinho's plans to forge a team more in line with his playing philosophy and gradually bring in youngsters to renew the team.
He mentioned no names but the Italian press has speculated that Inter may want to inject young blood like Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel, 22, and two Inter youth team products, Italian striker Mattia Destro and Slovenian player Rene Khrin.
Up front, Genoa's Argentinian star Diego Milito has long been linked to the Italian champions and there has been recent speculation that Udinese's Italy forward Fabio Quagliarella may join Mourinho's side.
Paolillo stressed that the club would stick to strict privacy about ongoing deals, ''only announcing transfers when they have been clinched''.
He said that, in line with Mourinho's ambitions of winning Inter's Champions League first Champions League since the mid-1960s, ''next year's team will be a different one''.
''It will also be a different team in the way it plays. The soccer that (Mourinho) has in mind will come''.
