Take a look at what’s happened at Real Madrid in recent years. Were it not for Karim Benzema stepping out of the shadows and into the limelight, the club would be staring at a full-blown crisis.
“It will be Benzema,” was Zinedine Zidane’s curt response recently when asked whether Erling Haaland, Cristiano Ronaldo or Kylian Mbappe would be leading the line for Los Blancos next season.
It was a reasonable riposte, too, given what Benzema has done for the club since the departure of Ronaldo, who has been touted to make a grand Bernabeu return in the summer. Why bother, when they’ve got Benzema pulling it out of the bag every week?
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