Benzema

comment by Don (U22703)
posted 3 minutes ago
I recall someone suggesting we move for him a few years ago when he was out.of favour there.

The experts on here said not good enough / too old.
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Can't have been you can it? What with being a new poster you silly little gimp.

Hes about 14 goals behind Raul atm.

But yeah he is possibly the most underrated player of all time.

Strikers don't usually last that long at big clubs let alone Madrid and he spent a huge chunk of that time playing second fiddle. His all round game is unreal.

And he's playing his best stuff near his mid thirties.

comment by I Don't Trusty the Process - Kroenke Out (U21076)
posted 42 minutes ago
You have to wonder what his career would've been like if he hadn't spent so much of it in the same team as Ronaldo. He played a great support role for him, but has generally stepped up since Ronaldo left
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It is a wonder, given he was very much the Rooney to Ronaldo at Real Madrid.

He will go down as a Real Madrid legend.

Didn’t realise he was so close to Raul.

I think the thing with playing as a support to Ronaldo is that it’s made him a better all round footballer. He’s the top assister Madrid’s history as well.

comment by Rude Van Nist (U22799)
posted 42 minutes ago
Hes about 14 goals behind Raul atm.

But yeah he is possibly the most underrated player of all time.

Strikers don't usually last that long at big clubs let alone Madrid and he spent a huge chunk of that time playing second fiddle. His all round game is unreal.

And he's playing his best stuff near his mid thirties.
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Playing 3rd fiddle for quite a while behind bale and ronaldo.

Showing just how good he is since those two have moved on/been phased out.

comment by Anthony The King Elanga (U10026)
posted 16 minutes ago
Didn’t realise he was so close to Raul.

I think the thing with playing as a support to Ronaldo is that it’s made him a better all round footballer. He’s the top assister Madrid’s history as well.
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Pretty incredible really. The way he adapted his game at Real can only be admired.

Yeah it’s fantastic. He’s really stepped up in Ronaldo’s absence and Bale shrinking when having the added responsibility. He’s carried Madrid for a few years now, with a group of players that aren’t exactly in their peak.

The Benzema hype is getting a bit much now tbh. Very good player but definitely not one of the best players of his era. He has a lot of goals and assists but he’s played a huge number of games, so many players would.

As good as he’s been the last couple years, he was very much a role player during Madrid’s incredible 2011-18 run.

During their 4 UCL wins, he only scored 2 important goals in the latter stages; in a 1-0 first leg home win vs Pep’s Bayern in the 2014 SFs (which they won 5-0 on agg anyway) and then in the 2018 Final vs Liverpool where the goalie threw it at him.

He also never scored a big Classico goal in the league during the height of that rivalry w/Barca.

So there’s a reason why he was in the shade. It was always CR7, Bale, Ramos or Ozil making the big offensive plays.

Let’s also not forget that France won the World Cup without him.

Beyond all that, his game just isn’t all that. It’s pretty much straight up and down, no special effects.

Others have made the point: Benzema's statistics would look much better if he had not fulfilled the role of facilitator to Ronaldo for so many years. That's what impresses me above all about him: he's a superb striker in his own right, but has the selflessness, work rate and footballing intelligence to be a massively important component of a team built around someone else as the finisher. The fact that he has become much more prolific since Ronaldo left and in a less stellar Real Madrid reinforces this point.

comment by Elvis: King of Cult (U7425)
posted 16 hours, 5 minutes ago
comment by Don (U22703)
posted 3 minutes ago
I recall someone suggesting we move for him a few years ago when he was out.of favour there.

The experts on here said not good enough / too old.
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Can't have been you can it? What with being a new poster you silly little gimp.
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