FC Barcelona’s official website has confirmed that subject to a successful medical and the final details of the deal with Internazionale being confirmed, Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be presented to Barça’s fans on Monday.

ibrahimovic fc barcelona 25 07Zlatan’s unveiling is expected to attract a large crowd to the Camp Nou with culés having grown restless over the summer after seeing infinite rumours of new signings amount to nothing. Although the eternal enemy in Madrid managed to almost fill their ground for the presentations of Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo, Barça fans are generally less enthusiastic about such events and it is difficult to imagine that Europe’s largest stadium will be anything near full to greet Zlatan.

The Inter striker is rumoured to be costing the Catalan side around 46m € as well as the transfer of Samuel Eto’o to the Milanese side. Alexander Hleb is also expected to move on loan to the San Siro for a year with Inter having an option to buy the out of favour Belorussian midfielder. Hleb struggled in early appearances for Barça leading to manager Pep Guardiola limiting the appearances of the player Barça had signed from Arsenal in the summer of 2008.

All being well Zlatan Ibrahimovic should make his debut for FC Barcelona during the pre-season visit to the west coast of the United States where Barça take on David Beckham’s team LA Galaxy before facing the Seattle Sounders.