How You Like Me Now? - The Karim Benzema Thread

You can argue all you want, if it was somebody else that didn't have Florentino's complete protection, he would've been sold on like 4 occasions. More protected than Cristiano which is sad.

 

I do too.

It's what kept him from being one of the greatest. He however is still a legend and it's insulting to say otherwise then double down by saying he isn't in the realm of other Madrid greats.

Cristiano and messi really warped things.

So badly we have hoards of this forum thinking Cristiano's goals were easy to replace and wanted him out. We had our president not really protect him (yet protects Bale the most I have ever seen).

Benzema scores like Ruud, Raul and others before him. Inconsistently.

 

Not really, especially if you play next to CR7 & Prime Bale for most of your career as 3rd wheel.

If Benzema wanted to prove himself as one of the best ever, he would've left Real Madrid. However, he preferred winning titles as a support player instead of being the main guy elsewhere.

Which is why Higuain left Real Madrid to prove himself.

Benzema was a massively integral part of Real Madrid's offense in 2010s decade. The man has nearly 240 goals and 100+ assists despite being 2nd/3rd wheel for most of his career. Also, his impact goes way beyond merely box metrics.

If anything, Real Madrid's lackluster defense is the reason why they only won 2 LaLiga titles.

 

Correct, fairly simple for me, some others were great great players for Madrid, but Legendary, yeah those two.

 

a good player, maybe in other circumstances or another team he would be consider a legend, but:
1. (and to his defense): was never a true striker, yet expected to score as one.
2. cried to Perez until pipita was kicked out
3. was lazy pretty much in the first half of his career. no wonder the crowd did not like him in those days.
4. a legend is someone that is a leader, that can get the the whole team rallied behind and fight until the last minute. that was never benzema. just doesn't have the mentality for that.
5. lets not forget all the things he was involved early on, sleeping with underage hooker, blackmailing team mates in NT, kicked out of NT. That's not the stuff legends are made of.

 

Those are two of the best ever.

If your conditions to be a legend of Madrid is that you have to be one of the best ever then Madrid in your estimation only has three.

 

Like @Shay Z said definitely not what I was saying.

Some people will revere players they haven't seen play because after you retire people only remember your good moments. Raul after 2004 was never the same dor 6 seasons and it was frustrating seeing him every week, but if all you have seen of him are youtube highlights and wikipedia awards lists you would think he was Raul of 2001 in his entire 17 year career here. Point is, Karim had good and bad moments just like all the other legends who have played before him, but since we have to see him play we still see the good and bad, compared to our fantasies of EL Buitre and Puskas.

 

I don’t think only three.

Puskas, di Stefano, both Ronaldo’s, Gento, Roberto Carlos, Zidane are all imo legitimate candidates for an all-time 11 (depending on how you set up the team).

Benzema isn’t on that level but he was an excellent forward when on form, and has been a great servant for the club.

People comparing him to Ruud are missing the point that Ruud was possibly the best target man style forward in history.

 

It's a heads I win, tales you lose approach to analysis. No matter the outcome it's going to result in someone else's fault.

 

Unreal the f*ckin bullsh*t I used to read around here.

“If cristiano leaves we’ll player better football and score more goals overall”

FOH

 

"I can't wait till Cristiano is gone, we'll finally be free of him forcing us to play through him!"

"We will play beautiful possession football instead of this overly direct ans counter shit"

"Christiano kills talented players like Isco. When he leaves Isco will blossom, definitely WPOTY talent"

Ahaha

 

unreal

 

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Confirmed quote on his Instagram live

 

Thats WC winner Giroud for you Karim.

 

Fax

 

When Ronaldo said if my team all played on my level we'd be winning trophies he was also right.

Doesn't mean you should share it.

 

.@Benzema to @Ronaldo: "I was just telling my fans that I loved football the moment I saw you on television. For me you are the best of all time. They also asked me about Zizou, but I told them you're the best." pic.twitter.com/n67PItvSJ2

— Infinite Madrid (@InfiniteMadrid) March 29, 2020

 

Who is comparing Giroud to Benzema anyways there is absolutely no comparison to be made lmfao. Giroud is a ********ing nobody

 

Maybe he will finally hit the bench after that comment

 

He said the truth. I don't know why some people don't like the truth?

Should he have fake humbled like Klopp?

 

I think this has been one of the more balanced posts I can agree with. With all due respect to him, I think servant and on form are the most important words in that sentence. Those words seem to imply something different than icon, legend, and/or relentless/prolific.

Has he done great things for this club? Yes.
Has he scored very important goals for this club? Yes.
Has he carried us in certain matches and won trophies for this club? Yes.

Has he done many frustrating things in high-profile games for this club? Yes.
Does he deserve to be in the all time top 10 of strikers or RM players? No.
Will he have a stadium, training ground, or some statue or public monument erected/named for him? No.

That being said, he probably deserves more recognition than RvN or Owen or perhaps even arguably R9 due to his contribution, longevity, and sustained contribution year after year. Who knows, RvN was getting old and Owen and R9 were crippled by injuries that cut their RM career short.

Most importantly, do we think him at 32/33 is going to be a better source of trophies for this club than the next big thing? (ie. Mbappe, Haaland, etc) That I definitely do not believe so.