How You Like Me Now? - The Karim Benzema Thread

Benzema is living like a King in Madrid. I doubt he will be willing to leave his comfort zone, especially in such mental state.

 

Where is Phoenix Rising when you need him to defend the indefensible

 

I am not watching one more game with this fat fck in our beautiful white shirt. Enough is enough.

he is the only reason I miss Mourinho, who at least had some cojones to bench this motherfucjer.

 

can we change the thread title to "how can you like me now?" ?

 

No one is going to buy this french lump of wood , you couldn't give this waster away for free. A center forward that chokes 100 percent of hes chances every single game .

 

Just watched that chance... brilliant pass from Marcelo, so much space and Benzema still shooting straight to keeper. it was 1-1 then.

 

It's amazing that after all these years, we're having the same discussions and complaints about him. We've done everything possible to cater to him and he simply hasn't proved that he can be consistent and relied upon to deliver week in and week out. He's easily one of the most frustrating signings of this new era because the talent is clearly there but he just never seems to be able to make the most of it. We need better if we want to dominant domestically and in the CL and Benzema simply isn't it.

As I said in the match thread, I'm genuinely just tired of him as our striker. I'm tired of the missed chances, killing our attacking plays, the lack of effort, drive or motivation, him being our undisputed starting striker with genuinely no performance based evidence to back it up. We haven't had good competition for him since Higuain (who was flawed in his own way) and now that we have Morata nothing has changed. It's time that he moved on and we either bring in someone who is already world class or has the potential to be and focus on them. I'd take 2 seasons getting a younger striker to be the best in the world than waste it on Benzema. I'm tired.

Goodbye Benzema. Just Goodbye.

 

Actually, hes been great in the past three seasons. This year he simply lost the athleticism he had. No need to project retroactively, Benzema has been a great player for Madrid. He's just not anymore.

 

Well said, I agree with every sentence of your post. I'm really tired of him and want him gone without even thinking of any $$ for shipping him out.

Edit: here comes Hendrix with the unexpected Benzema's defense. I'm tired of that too.

 

As expected he thinks Benz has been "great" and not just that, for "three seasons" at that, sigh...

 

He thinks mario balotelli is great so hard to take him seriously most of the time .

 

Unfortunately, your average fan's goldfish memory cannot change the fact that he scored 74 goals in 134 games in the previous three seasons during which he won two CL trophies being instrumental to our attacking play throughout. But what can you expect from people who interpret 'thank you and goodbye' as defending him.

 

I'm pretty sure anyone with an IQ above 75 and some footballing talent at Europe's top clubs could've done the same. Do you realize scoring x amount of goals per y amount of games is different for Stoke (or AC Milan) than it is for Real Madrid? He was a better player at Lyon than he was at Madrid after 2012.

 

This x1000. Benz has a real sweet pass, the one on one Ronnie missed started with a nice chipped ball from Benz to Asensio. I don't think he is thaaaaaaat good of a passer to justify his other deficiencies, and his attacking partners are not that lethal anymore to have him with the sole purpose of supplying. Suarez also has real good linkup play, but it's not just soft touches of the ball and quick one twos that he can do, he also makes clever decoy runs, body checks defenders (check the 3rd yesterday, great movement by Suarez), and is the La Liga top scorer for the second season running. We can do much better, and since this is the glamorous number 9 spot we are talking about, I am surprised Perez has settled for Benz.

 

BBC needs broken up, team can't paper over the weaknesses anymore. Benzema could potentially maybe work in a line up without Ronaldo and Bale but his mentality and work ethic make it criminal to try. I'd love to see us sell the BBC this summer and integrate Isco, Asensio, Morata into squad. That of course won't happen but maybe we'll see Bale and Benz head to the EPL and see the squad give Ronaldo a free roll up top with hard working ambition surrounding.

 

Spot on. I would end it with both and have a fresh start with a new era, we sure have the pieces for that already and one more Galactico (Mbappe) will be enough. But CR has too big reputation here, and he keeps scoring enough, which is expected when the entire team plays for him to score (pretty noticable against Barca). Hes becoming like Ibrahimovic who also scores a lot for ManU but hampers their overall play. There were so many moments the other day when we were on the counter and I thought a 2012 Ronaldo would have killed this Barca, but he simply can't shake off his marker anymore.

 

Benzema`s "link-up" mastery would actually work if we would have technical and fast wingers who could exploit that. CR7 lost his pace, while Bale simply lacks technical ability and does not know how to exploit that space.

We don`t need pseudo striker, especially not one who seems completely defeated player. We need 2 CF`s and magicians behind and it will beat everything Benzema is able to produce 10x over.

 

LMAO wtf am I reading?!