He didn't exactly set the world on fire either. Without Ibrahimovic Juventus would've been fine, without Juventus Ibrahimovic wouldn't be the player he is right now.
YOu're looking at him from todays perspective, and if you compare him to the Zlatan of today of course he wasnt as good.
But he was a very young player then, still adapting to the league and developing, so just because he wasnt the player he is today doesnt mean he flopped.
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then by your definition huntelaar probably did not flop at milan either by scoring 7 goals in 30 matches, right ? pretty similar story of someone scoring plenty in the dutch league and then failing miserabily in serie a.
When he came to Juve Zlatan was not considered a pure goalscorer nor a classic target man, he didnt score as many goals then and the first time he scored over 20 league goals was under Mourinho. He is an incredible player but there is so much more to him than scoring gooals.
Even in the Dutch League his highest goal tally is 13 goals, so you cant compare him with Huntelaar whose only job is to score.
In his first season with us he scored 13 goals, which is decent, in the second he scored 7, which is too few, but like I said, his game is about much more than goals so to say that he flopped is a huge overstatement.