The situation of Karim Benzema in Al Ittihad becomes unsustainable. The former Real Madrid striker’s poor performance in the Saudi team has put him at the horses’ feet of critics and fans and an alleged ‘flight‘ of Jeddahthe town where his current club is located, could make the situation worse.
According to the media outlet Al-Riyadiya and the newspaper AS, the French striker was not seen during the training sessions that Marcelo Gallardo Argentine coach of the Arab team, coach on Thursday and Friday. And this is because ‘9’ will have the city was abandoned, although neither the reasons nor their destination are known. Gallardo, when asked then, did not want to comment on the matter, according to the aforementioned sources.
Benzema (12 goals and five assists in twenty games) has not been able to meet the expectations created by the announcement of his signing for the Saudi team. His very difficult paper In the recent club World Cup and in the great Arab classic, against Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al Nassr, they generated so much criticism that the player chose to temporarily delete his account on instagram. Now, his ‘disappearance’ from Jeddah only adds another twist to a situation that was already on its way to being unsustainable.
Source: La Verdad
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