Zlatan Ibrahimovic is back at Manchester United. You may have heard .

It was widely thought that the super Swede had played his last game for the club when a knee injury at the back end of last season brought his campaign - and his one year contract - to a close.

But he returned to a hero's welcome last month, signing a new 12-month deal at Old Trafford and being pencilled in for a return to fitness before the end of the year.

And the clearest sign yet that he could be fit to come back into the United fold came on Monday, when he was named in United's squad for the group stages of the Champions League .

Zlatan announced his return in typical understated style (
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Should Zlatan be fit to feature, United will be the seventh club he's played for in the Champions League, moving him ahead of Nicolas Anelka and Javier Saviola who've both played for six.

And - given that this is Zlatan we're talking about - he's obviously scored for all six of his previous teams in the competition, even though he's never won it.

Barcelona is one of the six teams he's scored for (
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Daily Mirror)
And he was most recently seen in the competition with PSG (
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Getty)

He's netted 48 goals in 119 games in the shirts of Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain, meaning that he's the only man to have scored for six different teams in the competition.

A goal for United would make it seven, and take him further ahead of those below him, plenty of whom already can't catch him.

Hernan Crespo (Parma, Lazio, Inter, Chelsea, Milan) is the only other man on five different clubs, with four players on four - Samuel Eto'o, Fernando Morientes, Arjen Robben and Anelka.

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