For Karim Benzema, increasingly criticized by Al-Ittihad, the adventure in Saudi Arabia is currently turning into a fiasco. The complete opposite of Cristiano Ronaldo.
Things are going badly for Karim Benzema in Saudi Arabia. While his arrival at Al-Ittihad had aroused incredible enthusiasm, the French striker (36 years old) has for several weeks been taken aback by the supporters of the club based in Jeddah, who criticize him for his lack of investment on the field and its insufficient performance. Critics who apparently convinced “KB9” to delete his Instagram account, on which he was very active.
In just one year, the 2022 Ballon d’Or has fallen precipitously in the hierarchy of world football. Is he wasting his end of career? “Knowing how to stop when you’re at the top, after winning big titles, it’s rareresponds on RMC Sport to Eric Di Meco who defends the former number 9 Merengue. It’s not easy when you’re in great shape and you have an offer like the one Benzema had. »
“Ronaldo still has goals”
For the ex-Marseillais, Karim Benzema “perhaps he didn’t want to spend too much of a season at Real and we see his decline in the club where he left his mark”. Despite everything, he believes that joining the “a somewhat artificial championship” that the Saudi Pro League was not the right choice for the former French international, who suffers from this point of view from the comparison with Cristiano Ronaldo, exiled since last January at Al-Nassr.
“He still has goals, he wants to make the Euro with Portugal… and he’s counting all his goals!strikes the winner of the 1993 Champions League with OM. For Benzema, the France team is finished… And then maybe he can’t do it anymore. Not all guys are machines. When you have high goals, the head pulls everything else. But when it stops, you don’t want to put in all that effort anymore. » No doubt the “Nueve” would have hung up when leaving the White House.
