While he is at the heart of incessant rumors about him, Karim Benzema came out of his silence for a severe clarification.
Karim Benzema has not finished making headlines in the transfer section. Consequence of the vagueness which reigns over its future now one week before the end of the winter transfer window. Because if the former Lyonnais made his return to Jeddah after skipping the restart at the beginning of the month, he is still kept away from the group gathered in Dubai by Marcelo Gallardo, the divorce seeming to be complete with the Argentinian technician.
For several days, rumors about Karim Benzema have been circulating. On Tuesday, the AFP dropped a bomb by announcing that the former Madrilenian had asked to leave “temporarily” Al-Ittihad, only six months after his arrival in Saudi Arabia. And if the Saudi club had offered its player a loan to another team in the championship, the Lyonnais, “unable to give his best to Al-Ittihad because of the pressure” according to a club source, would have refused.
These shattering revelations nevertheless made the person concerned react. “This is completely false!” “, he told L’Equipe, adding: “The media no longer knows what to invent. The bigger the better. » Despite this powerful denial, Karim Benzema’s situation nonetheless remains very uncertain. If several English big names seemed interested, none took action and Olympique Lyonnais, which dreams of seeing its former player return, does not seem able to repatriate him between Rhône and Saône.
