This season Benzema failed to live up to expectations, he failed to show his best performance with Al Ittihad. It must be admitted, many fans are disappointed with the performance of the former Real Madrid player, it seems like Al Ittihad investment has failed miserably this season. Even though he has returned to active training, it is not certain that Benzema performance will return to sharpness on the front lines. Previously, it was rumored that Benzema would return to play in Europe, because his relationship with the coach was not harmonious.
Maybe because Karim Benzema has not been able to adapt well so his performance has not been fully optimal, players who do not have good chemistry between other players or their coaches find it difficult to develop into great players. Even though Karim Benzema is a good striker that Real Madrid has but when he Al Ittihad Karim Benzema is not very productive and in fact the club is experiencing a decline, I don't know what is wrong, but what Al Ittihad needs to improve is the chemistry between Karim Benzema and other players and also the coach so that this can make their performance optimal and able to work together well. to bring Al Ittihad back to success.
Even if Karim Benzema really wants to return to the European League, who will accommodate Karim Benzema to the club even though he is currently old and Karim Benzema's salary is very large, so the club that wants to accommodate him must think hard about his salary and buy Karim Benzema to Al Ittihad or just a loan option. It seems that many European players have difficulty adapting to the Saudi League, so they really want to leave the Saudi League even though they are relatively new to the Saudi League competition.
When Benzema was arrived from Real Madrid to Al Ittihad his status as star player and many fans of Al Ittihad have high expectations of him especially during playing with Real Madrid he was so often to became an Real Madrid top scorer for almost every season so it's normal if the fans thought Benzema will scores plenty of goals with Al Ittihad but unfortunately after through an 17 matches with Al Ittihad Benzema looks difficult to adapt with Saudi Pro League atmosphere and until today Benzema only able to scores 9 goals in Saudi Pro League and even Abderrazak Hamdallah goals records is much better compared to him because Hamdallah can scores 17 goals from 19 matches
Benzema almost be give up so that's why this January he was asking to his agent to look for new clubs and probably return to play at Europa even at that time Benzema not included in Al Ittihad squad for some matches and fortunately Benzema have change his mind now and he will attempts to stayed at Al Ittihad at least until this season ended but this summer i think most likely Benzema will leave Al Ittihad and look for new clubs and actually some of clubs still interested want to using his service and one of them is Lyon