The Spanish sports newspaper "Diario Gol" announces that Madrid's "Real" had the opportunity to sell Karim Benzema, but the offer from London's "Arsenal" was rejected. They offered 40 million pounds sterling.
The manager of the "Gunners", Arsene Wenger, has been interested in the striker for over a year and hoped to take advantage of the fact that the president of the French team no longer wanted to see Florentino Perez. In addition, the 29-year-old footballer has been receiving a lot of criticism from fans.
However, the English offer seemed too low for the "royal" club, so they will have to return to Spain with a bigger bag of money.
The transfer may not happen at all, as it seems that "Real" will not sell Benzema cheaply and will wait until someone offers a sum of money that would be enough to strengthen the team.
This season, the forward scored only four goals in 14 matches in all competitions and made only two assists, but the website transfermarkt.com values him at 60 million euros.
