How You Like Me Now? - The Karim Benzema Thread

Obviously it’s very much leaning on Benzema’s part of the story, but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t ticked off at the FFA after watching it

 

Benz was here in Bahrain yesterday. Unfortunately couldn’t go see him.

The fans chanting/singing we love you Benzema
https://instagram.com/p/BjfcW3UBTgK/

 

What's the other side of the story? He was found innocent, he's playing for one of the best teams ever in the history of the sport, he has the experience and skills to play at the highest level and is pretty lethal in formats with group & KO rounds.

 

Hm, lets see.

Bale - made of glass
Benzema - 5 goals per season
Ronaldo - 33 year old on a decline, inconsistent (5 goals until January), highly depends on service.

on the other hand

Salah - best player in the Premier league. 44 goals in 52 games
Lewandowski - bundesliga top goalscorer in the past two years. 41 goals in 48 games.
Neymar - not sure description is needed. 28 goals in 30 games.


Right, I'm the one that needs to wake up.

 

Keep dreaming lol

Delivered 10 assists and has created most goals per 90 in LaLiga alongside with Messi, Pablo Fornals & Ousmane Dembele.

Jugadores de La Liga con mayor participación en generación de Goles.
Top 20 Asistencias + Penúltimos Pases de Gol por 90´. pic.twitter.com/GtDrB5Fwsn

— Fútbol Avanzado (@FutbolAvanzado) May 23, 2018

But that doesn't suit your narrative about Benz?

Salah has been phenomenal this season and he's indeed EPL's best player.

Remains to see if he can replicate his form in next season.

Besides, Liverpool won't sell him in this summer anyway tho.

Scoring a top scorer for Bundesliga when you're playing for Bayern isn't exactly the hardest achievement if we're being honest to ourselves. Also, Aubameyang (who joined Arsenal in January) was the 2nd highest top scorer until in the middle of April. Which says quite a lot tbh.

Lewandowski has been mainly irrelevent in CL KO-stage and hasn't done a memorable for Bayern for the past 4 seasons. Sure, he scored 11 CL-goals in KO-stage but majority of them are just statpadding when Bayern were practically eliminated or winning by a large margin anyway. Understandable why Bayern fans are fed up on him.

Same reason for Neymar as above regarding the level of domestic competition he's playing in.

And PSG aren't interested to sell him.

 

Great analysis on Benzema's performance vs. Liverpool

https://streamable.com/o01yd

If any other player was this good, he would've been praised like there's no tomorrow.

But since it's Benzema, he's being overlooked as usual whenever he plays brilliantly.

 

Dude ,please. Being overlooked my ass. The guy is still at Madrid and starting despite barely scoring for the last few seasons.

 

Benzema doesn't gets any appreciation on this forum for his overall contributions, so he's certainly overlooked. The thread is mostly active when people are looking for a scapegoat when things aren't going well.

Yeah, he's still at Madrid as a starter because of merit and is the most important player to make the attacking game tick. Perhaps you should start waching games than just solely following RM on LiveScore?

 

Who can take you seriously when you use absolutes which are obviously not true. "Benzema doesn't get ANY appreciation ". Yeah,sound argument my dude.

He got plenty of praise for him semi-finals and final but everyone knows that he only turns up for like 5~ matches per a year.

Another sound argument. You're saying that I don't watch matches because I stated a fact that Benzema is starting while barely scoring. Watching matches will change the amount of goals that he scored?

Your last argument of chances created and link-up play is literally the only praise-worthy reason about Benzema and it's been abused to death on this forum already.

 

There is a saying that if he wore the number 10, he would be praised.

 

Don't know why people don't agree with this. If transfer fees wasn't an issue (and Neymar's crappy attitude) I would trade those 3 right now for the 3 we have. Overall age, movement (speed), total goal tally (potential)

Reality is that Neymar is not for sale (and a bitch) I wouldn't pay the required money for Lewandowski at his age, and Salah will cost 300 million. But if we could do a straight swap, hell yeah.

 

Not sure its impossible, we have spent close to nothing in the past seasons and won three CL titles which brings a huge income. Selling the BBC should raise around 300 million. Neymar, Salah and Lewandowski would not cost more than 500 million combined, so in theory could be doable.

 

It's impossible.

Liberpool aren't selling Salah this summer and PSG won't sell Neymar unless he throws a biggest fit in history and UEFA pressure them with heavy sanctions.

We shouldn't even want Lewa. I can't believe people are complaining about players age and wages yet they think Lewandowski is an option.

 

Myth IMO, part of his own “attacking game” should be putting the ball in the back of the net with more regularity recently, he is afterall supposedly a 9, if he isn’t then let’s get some strikers in there that can score and he can fight it out with the other attacking mids in the squad for a place, where he can “link up” and “pre assist” as his only job, simple

 

In fairness to Lewandowski though his best attributes will not be declining very soon so I see him in 2 or 3 years as the same player he is now.

And it’s comforting to know we’d have an elite striker to maximise our chances of another CL whilst making the most of Modric and Ramos’ final top tier level years with us.

The price tag is a problem for me though for a player at that age.

 

Off topic about Benzema:

His UCL shoes were put on auction two days ago in Bahrain (for charity) and it was sold for BHD8,000 (approximately USD21,000).
He also donated a UCL (final) ball which he autographed (along with Bahrain's king and one of his sons) and it was sold for BHD55,000 (approximately USD146,000)

The last amount shocked me, so I thought let me post it.

 

He's the physical embodiment of an oxymoron.

 

To make it even more impressive, he was regularly rotating with Higuain for 4 years and was Ronaldo’s sidekick for most of his career.

 

Benzama will never be a legend in my book. I will always remember his comedy CL 2018 goals. For me Bale and Marcelo join the ranks of LEGEND, along with Raul, R. Carlos, Zidane, F. Hierro, Puskas, Gento, Di Stefano, S. Ramos, Casillas and of course C. Ronaldo.

 

Benzema is a top ten scorer in Madrid history winning 4 CL along the way.

Who cares what some nonentity who hasn't accomplished shit thinks of him?

 

Benz has contributed more than enough to be considered a legend
Wtf

 

His two goals this season in CL would guarantee reruns over and over again for years to come.

 

Bale being a legend while Benzema isn't. Lmao.