Ex-Major League Soccer manager Ray Hudson has told David Beckham to make a "monster first signing" like Zlatan Ibrahimovic as he attempts to realise his dream of creating a Miami-based franchise.

Commentator for beIN Sports, Hudson managed the Miami Fusion for a year prior to their 2001 dissolution and has advised Beckham to be bold in his recruitment for the massive task ahead, per the Sun's Jon Boon:

A player like Ibrahimovic would be a monster first signing. Those types of players are going to be available to the Beckham lure. They are going to be coming to him. They are going to be attracted to his flame.

Forget about Real Madrid, PSG, Milan. He had to show up and put his boots on and play the game — and just be Beckham. This is going to be a different environment entirely. It is monumental. This is going to be a real test and it is very easy for us all to imagine, well, it’s Beckham and his stadium, it’s the MLS — let it rock and roll!

Ibrahimovic's contract at Paris Saint-Germain is set to expire next summer, leading to speculation over whether he'll extend his stay at Parc des Princes or move on to pastures new.

Boon reported that ex-England international Beckham recently received the green light to build his £130 million stadium in a "run-down area" of Miami, paving the way for his fantasy to become a reality.

However, BBC Sport claimed in September that Beckham's plans to launch a team in time for the 2018 MLS season "had been hampered."

Ibrahimovic will be 36 years of age by the time March 2018 rolls around, bringing into question whether the Swede will be as desirable an asset by that time, although OptaJean has provided evidence of his evergreen form:

Currently 34, the PSG powerhouse continues to enjoy his football at the elite level, and Spanish magazine Don Balon even reported Chelsea are still willing to offer the forward £215,000 a week to join their cause (h/t Metro's Jamie Sanderson).

Major League Soccer is gradually moving away from its reputation as little more than a retirement league for Europe's brightest talents, and the rising form of the United States national team is perhaps indicative of that.

However, it's clear veterans still have a desire to move to America in their twilight years after Frank Lampard, Andrea Pirlo and Steve Gerrard joined MLS clubs this year. Ibrahimovic has also spoken of his wish to join an MLS side, per the league's official website:

I think it would be an amazing experience. I see that soccer is growing a lot in US I mean, I was here 10 years ago [and] soccer was not on the level that it is today, but it's growing. It's growing in the right direction and I want it to be on the level of Europe. It will come here.

I would like to play. Which team? Am I allowed to say that? No, I cannot say that.

Boon mentioned that Florida's past two attempts to build a franchise, the Fusion and the Tampa Bay Mutiny, both collapsed due to a lack of funding and support from the stands.

But with Beckham's potential arrival at a franchise helm, that allure could make a return to Miami, and a marquee signing such as Ibrahimovic would certainly help fill out the stadium, too.

With Beckham's dream still years from being realised at all, the former Manchester United and Real Madrid ace will have to hope Ibrahimovic doesn't scratch his MLS itch before he finishes setting up his club.

Bringing his former PSG team-mate across the pond would be not just a major coup for Beckham, but for Major League Soccer as a whole, adding an instant touch of class to a developing roster.

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