The supporters of the French team must have woken up with a hangover this Sunday morning after the announcement, the evening before, of the Karim Benzema’s withdrawal from the entire World Cup. Very bad news when the Madrilenian was one of the offensive assets of the Blues in Qatar. After this terrible announcement, which deprives him of a third World Cup after 2010 and 2018, Samir Nasri gave news of Nueve on the set of Canal +. According to the consultant, the recent winner of the Ballon d’Or 2022, whom he has had on the phone since, would be disappointed by this new international disillusionment and above all it would have been better to manage the Karim Benzema case to put him in the best conditions for the knockout phase.
“Marabouté, I don’t know, in any case, I had him yesterday, he was upset, but I think the management was bad with him, he’s a special player who requires special attention. We didn’t necessarily need Benzema for Australia, Tunisia and Denmark. He’s a player who takes you up a level and so we needed him for the knockout matches. You shouldn’t push him, he’s a player last season who played almost 60 games, it’s normal that he feels a certain fatigue, he’s 34 years old. So I think it was not necessary to push for this start of the competition.
🗨️ “I got him yesterday, he was upset (…) The management was bad with him”
Samir Nasri on Benzema’s package ❌ pic.twitter.com/X8fcRA6v2z
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