All relevant media on the planet published the news that Karim Benzema wants to leave Saudi Arabia. It was also explained that Al Ittihad coach Marcelo Gallardo left Benzema off the list of passengers for the mini-preparations in Dubai due to his late arrival from the holiday. All sorts of things were said after that, and that no one knows where Benzema is, and that he has no intention of returning to Arabia… However, the legendary striker sent a message to famous French L’Equipe .🚨🇫🇷 Manchester United are in talks with Al Ittihad about a deal for Karim Benzema! #MUFC [@jfelixdiaz via @Sport_Witness] pic.twitter.com/oSa93ntFxQ— mufcmpb (@mufcMPB) January 24, 2024 “It’s completely false. The media don’t know what to make up anymore. The bigger the better” he wrote shortly.Benzema asks Al-Ittihad to leave ‘temporarily’But if he denied the claims that he wants to leave the country and that he asked the club for a “temporary leave“, the fact remains that he is alone in Saudi Arabia and is training on his own. Meanwhile, the rest of the team is training in Dubai, preparing for the match against Al Faisali in the quarter-finals of the King Cup. Benzema cited that a cyclone that caught him in the Mauritius Islands, where he was on vacation, was the reason for getting back late. But the club didn’t forgot that he already missed three training sessions prior to the end of the year. It was also mentioned in the past days that the whole situation is being monitored by Chelsea and Arsenal, who are looking for a new “nine”, and even that there is an option for him to return to Lyon. With these denials by the player, all these informations are now irrelevant…##NAJAVA_MECA_7821960##