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Manchester United FC news: Ibrahimovic can do for Rashford and Martial what Cantona did for Class of '92

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a modern-day Eric Cantona and Man United's young players are lucky to count him as a team-mate, according to Ian Wright.

Wright, who scored 185 goals for Arsenal and won the FA Cup, League Cup and Premier League in a distinguished career, insisted it takes a special kind of player to make such an impact at Old Trafford, and the 35-year-old Swede is that man.

"I’ve had some people say to me they think having Zlatan at the club is holding back young lads like Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial — but I’m not having that at all," he wrote in The Sun.