PARIS -- Bonjour from the French capital, where I've spent the last few days while travelling for a week from Barcelona to Manchester over land and sea.
On Tuesday, I was at the Parc des Princes to see Paris Saint-Germain beat Ajax 3-1 in the Champions League.
In the mixed zone after the game I spoke to PSG's David Luiz, who was very helpful and bright, plus Edinson Cavani, about the club.
I'd really hoped, though, to speak to Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He's a fascinating interviewee when he's in the mood but he didn't speak to any written media after the game, which was a shame as there were several Dutch journalists, covering his former club Ajax, who also wanted to speak to him.
Instead, his Italian agent, Mino Raiola, who also represents Mario Balotelli and is never short of a quote, spoke to reporters in four different languages.
Journalists always need to top up knowledge of whichever club they're writing about and they do this by speaking to people who know, including players, officials, fans and fellow journalists.
To get right up to speed on all things Ibrahimovic, I met Johanna Franden, a Swedish journalist who has followed his career and moved from city to city to cover the country's greatest-ever player.
Ibra's huge in Sweden, bigger news than any club and his internationally bestselling and outspoken autobiography, "I am Zlatan", was as read and discussed as much there as Roy Keane's books are in Ireland.
He is big news in France too, where a verb -- to "Zlatanise", which is to dominate someone -- has been created.
Franden is the only dedicated Ibrahimovic correspondent and is also an award-winning journalist. During Euro 2012, while appearing on Swedish TV, she wore her hair in the style of then-jailed Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Franden has lived in Italy, Barcelona and Paris to cover the man they call "Zlatan." She writes about him almost every day for Aftonbladet, Sweden's biggest newspaper.
The stories range from the huge, like when Ibrahimovic moves between some of the biggest clubs in the world or when he offers controversial quotes, to more mundane affairs.
This week, for example, Franden had to find out if he'd agreed a deal to endorse a new football boot as he'd been spotted wearing footwear without a logo.
She's no PR woman -- her loyalty is to her readers -- and has written plenty of critical articles on Ibrahimovic.
Franden's current life is dependent on Ibrahimovic's movement and she needs to be on top of every story. When Ibrahimovic left Barcelona, she was pictured running after him to get a quote.
He obviously knows who she is but she has to keep a distance, keep her independence and try to maintain a professional relationship. It's not always easy, especially when he refused to speak to her newspaper for years.
Franden has to bear his ire when her newspaper writes an article or uses a headline which she has nothing to do with. In Ibrahimovic's eyes, she's the contact for that paper.
During the World Cup, she was invited out for a meal in Rio de Janeiro with several former players working in television punditry, one of whom mentioned that "Zlatan will be coming along".
To Franden, that meant she had to say no to the invitation for it would be potentially compromising. "Besides, he wouldn't have appreciated walking into a restaurant and seeing me sitting with his friends," she said.
Despite the ups and downs that you get with any job, I think she's proud about how well her compatriot has done at the highest level.
"He was better than ever last season," she told me before praising his responsibility and outlining several reasons why, contrary to some opinion, he's a great player to have at a club.
At PSG, for instance, Ibrahimovic insisted that players didn't just disappear after training but instead stayed behind for lunch together to build a better team spirit. And that's what they did.
It's not only Zlatan that Franden writes about, but he's usually the focus. So, when interviewing Laurent Blanc, she obviously asked him about his main striker.
She also asked him about his side's tactics, to which he replied: "Women talking football tactics, it's so beautiful. I think it's fantastic. You know what 4-3-3 means, don't you?"
"It is my job to know what it means," replied Franden. Blanc was embroiled in a sexism row as his quotes were picked up and spread around the world's media.
Franden has got to live in some of the world's greatest cities and speaks four languages, but Zlatan is now 33 and is unlikely to be playing in five years. But the Paris adventure for him -- and therefore her -- is far from over.
He wants to win a third consecutive Ligue 1 title, which looks set to be far harder this season now that Marcelo Biesla has got Marseille playing so well.
And he also wants to be the star when PSG excel in the European Cup. They've been knocked out on away goals at the quarterfinal stage by Barcelona and Chelsea in the last two seasons.
There's a feeling in Paris that they can go further this year, which will mean plenty of work for the two Swedes if they do.