The arrival of great champions in sequence and also the landing of the first coaches with an important curriculum – Jorge Jesus at Al-Hilal, Luis Castro at Al-Nassr – or with great prospects such as the Austrian Matthias Jaissle had led to think that the lure of large salaries and living conditions of nabobs was only a harbinger of joys and satisfactions for direct. And instead, after the incredible story of Portuguese striker Jotawho arrived just a month ago from Celtic Glasgow and has already been heavily challenged to make room for better-sounding players, Al-Ittihad is at the center of another case. Definitely more striking, because the protagonist has none other than Karim Benzema, Ballon d’Or 2022 and first-rate star of the club that also bought the former Chelsea player Kanté and Fabinho from Liverpool.
TOTAL BREAK – According to the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsatthe former Real Madrid striker he would be in complete discord with his coach, Nuno Espirito Santo, so much so that he turned to the agent who oversaw his transfer to Arabia to find an immediate solution. Benzema would not show up for the last training session due to the profound differences with the Portuguese coach, who would not have supported his purchase for tactical reasons and that he would also have denied him the captain’s armband, requested by the same player instead of the Brazilian Romarinho. A request deemed legitimate by Benzema as an acclaimed champion as well as a symbolic player of Al-Ittihad, who made him sign a two-year contract with a salary of 200 million euros to convince him to leave Madrid. Faced with the no and the repeated disagreements with Espirito Santo, the French player would have turned to the club and its agent to report the treatment suffered, requesting immediate action.
CLAMOROUS GOODBYE?- The biggest fear of the club and the local fans is that, if the situation does not come back with a decision that their champions like, they could also consider the sensational hypothesis of leaving Arabia after just two days from the start of the championship. Speculations that obviously his new team hastened to deny, publishing a video (click WHO) on his Twitter profile with a decidedly smiling Benzema and apparently far from problems. Benzema, author of 3 goals so far since his arrival in Riyadh, would be among other things for the well-informed only the most thunderous open case inside a locker room in total rout with the club’s top management. It all started with the exchange with rivals Al-Hilal between Saudi goalkeeper Mohamed Al-Owais and Brazilian Marcelo Grohe, whose arrival created a surplus of foreign players at Al-Ittihad compared to the allowed limit of 8. With the inevitable consequence of some cuts for players who landed in Arabia precisely in the face of the promise of rich earnings and perhaps forced to redo their bags at any moment. The most incredible example is that of the former Fiorentina player Ahmed Hegazi, out due to injury and therefore more suitable than others as a potential redundancy: a risk that the Egyptian international tried and exorcised by asking to receive all the money provided from his contract even in the event of an assignment. In short, not all that glitters is gold in the new Saudi Pro League.
2023-08-23 20:00:00
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