Benzema doubts the multi-million dollar offer from the Saudi Government and puts Madrid on alert

A whirlwind has shaken Valdebebas. With the season now over, pending only the last league game against Athletic, reflecting on the defeat in the Champions League against Manchester City, assuming the domestic title of Barça, celebrating the Copa del Rey and ensuring the continuity of Carlo Ancelotti, Real Madrid He has come face to face with a problem that conditions all his planning for this summer. Karim Benzema, team captain and club legend, is considering whether or not to continue in the Spanish capital next season tempted by a multi-million dollar offer from the Government of Saudi Arabia.

The Frenchman has agreed, agreed and sealed his renewal with Madrid for months until June 2024, at which time the Brazilian Endrick, Palmeiras striker signed for 30 million euros, would arrive. That is the plan of the technical management of the Bernabéu together with the signing of a veteran substitute striker to replace Mariano while observing the evolution of youth squad player Álvaro Rodríguez and Rodrygo is maintained as a variant in attack.

However, Saudi Arabia insists and makes Benzema doubt. Last February, EL MUNDO reported exclusively on the offer that the Saudi government had put on Benzema's table: a two-year contract at a net price of 30 million each.. All this exempt from taxes, not including image rights, which would all be for the footballer, and added an extra in the future for being an ambassador of the Saudi candidacy for the 2030 World Cup, the key to all this.. The country wants to host the World Cup and is putting all the money possible to achieve it. He has already signed Cristiano Ronaldo and is on his way to signing Leo Messi, giving them all the facilities: choice of city and team, residence in a private neighborhood…. This is how they would also do it with the Madrid captain.

Benzema's first decision had been to reject the offer, at least for this summer, but his irregularity in the last months of the season and the improvement in conditions for the Saudis have made him reconsider, as Relevo reported and this newspaper can confirm: He would earn three times more per year than with the contract he would have in Madrid, close to 100 million gross per course.

In Madrid there is a strange feeling, and that already says a lot. On the one hand, they trust and want the continuity of the footballer, Florentino Pérez's right eye, leader of the dressing room and the perfect piece for the current attack, where the Brazilians act as the spark and the French as the main axis. On the other hand, they need the best physical version of Benzema, something that was not seen in the last stretch of the season, where the club did not fully understand some of his performances.. The Frenchman did not speak before the Cup final or after the defeat against City.

If he finally asks to leave, it will hurt Madrid, but he will give him all the facilities he needs, continuing with a relationship that has been extraordinary since the Frenchman landed in Chamartín. At the club, with a market without too many alternatives (Kane, Lautaro, Osimhen), they already work in two realities: with and without Benzema.