Sentences with phrase «benzema is in the squad»

It is like everything else in this club... I would be more onfident knowing that Benzema is in the squad instead of a Welbeck (f*cking rubbish player who could not score even to save his life).

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There's a reason why Benzema is ahead of Giroud in france's national squad

It's worth noting that Benzema was left out of Real Madrid's match - day squad for their opening La Liga fixture of the season, against Sporting Gijon, and Rafa Benitez's side drew a blank in that fixture which could leave the Spanish giants realising just how important a member of their Bernabeu squad the French international really is.

I am sure we don't need Scneiderlin / Vidal and Benzema / Lacazzette / Higuain / Lewandowski in our squad.

Deschamps has not recalled Karim Benzema to his squad so if he is to continue with the same sort of system we have seen in the build up to and during Euro 2016 then Giroud will probably be his first choice to play through the middle.

As for worrying about losing more, the players we shall have to worry most about are Laurent Koscielny, who has been called up despite just returning today, Olivier Giroud, who is a certain starter for France as Benzema has been omitted from the squad, and even more worryingly Alexis Sanchez, who has two more World Cup Qualifiers to play in South America.

In turn, with Karim Benzema having a dismal record this season of just seven goals in 28 appearances, a prolific striker being added to the squad wouldn't be such a bad ideIn turn, with Karim Benzema having a dismal record this season of just seven goals in 28 appearances, a prolific striker being added to the squad wouldn't be such a bad idein 28 appearances, a prolific striker being added to the squad wouldn't be such a bad idea.

As he is also behind Benzema in the French squad.

Don't get me wrong — I said from the beginning that Benzema wouldn't be sold unless Real Madrid were replacing him, like they and Barcelona did with Özil and Sanchez — but the fact that we have an obvious need for a striker and a cover DM, Wenger / those in charge seem to be content with the current squad makes me sympathize with Robin Van Persie for leaving when he had bigger ambitions than what those in charge had.

Arsenal have been linked to a number of new signings this summer from Benzema to Vidal (with Johnny Evans along the way), but is there really space in the squad for a score of new arrivals?

The question is, will he go for squad depth (a Llorente - type signing), or still try bring in a Benzema - type upgrade over what we have.

Illeramendi is world class and if ancelotti is stupid enough to let him go Arsene should snap him up Asap these two would allow the system arsene wants to play to blossom and in my opinion all we would need then is benzema or cavani to complete the squad, unless Gibbs gets really bad injury as I just don't think Montreal is up to it long term

Arsenal need to add a world class striker to their squad in order to challenge for the Premier League title next season and a # 30m offer to Real Madrid for French forward Benzema could be the key.

Obviously I won't be crying if it ends up Benzema, as long as we improve on Giroud, but apparently Giroud and Benz do nt get along in national team, and I'd rather have everyone like each other in the squad as well.

Ironically, Giroud replaced Benzema in the French national squad and it could be the other way around at the Emirates stadium.

It is his departure, however, that looks to have hurt Zinedine Zidane's side, with Karim Benzema struggling for form and little in the way of backup currently in the squad.

Nevertheless, from a Madrid perspective, he's a highly - talented young Spanish player, and with several fundamental individuals on the wrong side of 30 including the likes of Luka Modric and Karim Benzema, they'll undoubtedly benefit from having a long - term vision in mind when addressing key areas of the squad this summer.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

A proven world class striker, Karim Benzema could leave in a Real Madrid squad shake - up this summer, and is supposedly wanted by Liverpool and Arsenal in what would be a hugely exciting move.

Just how Raymond Domenech's side managed to score just one goal in the tournament with a squad which included Thierry Henry, Franck Ribery, Karim Benzema and Samir Nasri is -LSB-...]

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

Sanchez at Arsenal will be key in bringing out the best of Mesut Ozil, and the arrivals of Khedira and Benzema at the Emirates Stadium will make Arsene Wenger's squad very strong and capable of coping with injuries that they failed to last season.

Billionaire Shu Yuhui claimed his club pulled out of moves for Costa, Edinson Cavani, Karim Benzema, Radamel Falcao and Raul Jimenez following a rule change limiting the number of foreign players Chinese Super League clubs were allowed to name in their matchday squads.

Not only has Benzema been capped more than any other member of the current squad (81), he's also the leading marksman too, scoring 27 goals — a total which far exceeds anyone in the set - up.

The squad is now in America to continue preparations for La Liga, and Benzema seems ready to prove that the club will not miss Ginzalo Higuain who signed for Rafa Benitez at Napoli at the weekend.

It would be advisable to Didier Deschamps not to pick the Real Madrid striker in any of his squads, and considering how healthy the squad is now Benzema can only do more harm than good at this point in time.

If Real Madrid is indeed able of signing Luis Suarez in this summer transfer window, the place of Benzema in the club could be in jeopardy and he might have to settle with a place on the sidelines of the squad.

While Karim Benzema has been included in the 19 man squad against Sevilla, Real Madrid will be without captain Sergio Ramos who has earned a suspension along with Pepe.

The naming and subsequent pruning of provisional World Cup squads in recent days has yielded a number of high - profile casualties, among them Ronaldinho, Francesco Totti, Antonio Cassano, Esteban Cambiasso, Javier Zanetti and Karim Benzema, and the tournament will undoubtedly be poorer for their absences.

Olivier Giroud's hat - trick against Paraguay during a 5 - 0 rout was France's first for 17 years, yet the 30 - year - old is continually criticised by the media and supporters alike, who bemoan the notable absence left by Real Madrid's Karim Benzema in the squad.

Two of Arsenal's current players Laurent Koscielny and Oliver Giroud are both in the French squad and hopefully they can persuade Benzema to move from Madrid to London and re-join his former Real Madrid team mate Mesut Ozil.