Monumental in recent months, Karim Benzema was bothered by a few physical glitches during the past season. Despite everything, Real Madrid does not intend to recruit a double to breathe the French striker. A questionable choice.
Benzema scored 324 goals with Real Madrid.
Karim Benzema has never been so strong since the start of his career. Author of 44 goals in 46 games last season, the French striker can be considered the best player in the world in 2022. But if he walks on water, the captain of the White House, who arrives on his 35 years, may be subject to injury.
Prez is not worried
Paradoxically, the Lyonnais also comes out of the season when he experienced the most physical glitches. Coronavirus in July 2021, knee alert in December 2021, hamstring problems in January and February, a calf spike in March… Admittedly, the Blue only missed 6 games for medical reasons, but with his return in the France team, the European champion is forced to pull more and more on the rope. And this one would do better not to fall for the Spanish club.
Despite this unrelenting reality, Florentino Prez doesn’t seem too worried. After the victory over Eintracht Frankfurt (2-0) on Wednesday, the merengue president confided in himself about a potential rookie to rest his star scorer. Look at all the attackers we have, he (Benzema) is not going to get sick but if he does get sick we have so many attackers that it won’t even be noticed blew the Madrid leader.
Far fewer options this season
If he has blind faith in Benzema, the businessman is still playing with fire. While it was planned to recruit Kylian Mbapp, who finally chose to extend to Paris Saint-Germain, no player arrived. It’s even quite the opposite since Luka Jovic left for Fiorentina, while Borja Mayoral was sold to Getafe. Gareth Bale and Isco, who could help out at the peak, left the club freely.
In the current workforce, only Mariano Diaz seems able to take over from KB9. A very light option given the very low performance of the Hispano-Dominican since his return from Lyon. Last possibility, the repositioning of Eden Hazard, desired by Carlo Ancelotti. For that, the Belgian will also have to leave the injuries behind him. Three weeks before the end of the transfer window, affording a new scorer would clearly not be a luxury for Real.
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