Report picked up by Pinaxnews.com indicates that Real Madrid play maker ”Karim Benzema” has signed a contract extension at Santiago Bernabeu and will keep on being the main striker for Los Blancos.
Karim Benzema has officially penned down another two-year deal at Real Madrid as the club’s No.9. The France international skipper was reported as having signed an extension to his present agreement, keeping him at Santiago Bernabeu until 2023.
It is perceived the 33-year-old striker will currently have a €1 billion release clause, apparently guaranteeing remaining years of his high level playing career will be spent with Real Madrid.
In other news, Chelsea boss, Thomas Tuchel has affirmed that winger Christian Pulisic has tried positive for Covid-19 and is presently self-isolating.
As a result of contracting the disease, Christian Pulisic will miss Chelsea’s Premier League London derby against Arsenal at the Emirates come Sunday, August 22,2021.
Pulisic’s news comes seven days after Ruben Loftus-Cheek contracted Covid-19, while Arsenal have additionally been managing their own flare-up after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette, Willian and Alex Runnarson were completely infected with the virus.
Thomas Tuchel has cautioned his players to be careful a reaction from Arsenal as they fight their own Covid circumstance and hope to ricochet back from their first day of the season rout to Brentford.
This is what Thomas Tuchel had to say;
”Christian has unfortunatkey had a positive test and needs to follow the protocols. He’s not been training and is not available for the game.
He further added; I don’t know what their team will be. It’s a difficult one to predict. For me the situation, when I put myself into their shoes, is that they can play the underdog role with the complications they and with Covid and that they lost their first match”.