{"id":23470,"date":"2023-06-04T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T10:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=23470"},"modified":"2023-06-04T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T10:20:33","slug":"breaking-news-real-madrid-announce-that-karim-benzema-will-leave-the-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=23470","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS Real Madrid announce that Karim Benzema will leave the club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2>Real Madrid announce Karim Benzema will leave the club this summer after agreeing to end his &#8216;unforgettable&#8217; 14-year spell&#8230; as a big-money move to Saudi Arabia is earmarked for the winner of the Golden Ball.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Real Madrid have confirmed that Karim Benzema will leave the club this summer<\/strong>The 35-year-old departs as the Whites&#8217; second-highest scorer of all time, the Ballon d&#8217;Or winner will join Saudi Pro League champions Al-Ittihad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By Adrian Bishop for Mailonline <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"><span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-published\"> <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Published:<\/span>  06:04 EDT, June 4, 2023 <\/span> | <span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated\"> <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Updated:<\/span>  06:16 EDT, June 4, 2023 <\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Karim Benzema is set to leave Real Madrid this summer after 14 years in the Spanish capital to join Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Al-Ittihad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The departure of the 35-year-old was confirmed on Sunday through a <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/noticias\/2023\/06\/04\/comunicado-oficial-benzema\">official statement on the club&#8217;s website<\/a> who referred to the forward as a &#8220;pivotal player in this golden era of our history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Ballon d&#8217;Or winner will join the Jeddah outfit on a deal worth more than \u00a3172,000,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Al-Ittihad are currently managed by former Wolves and Tottenham manager Nuno Espirito Santo and won the 2022-23 Saudi Pro League, five points ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s Al-Nassr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Benzema has made over 600 appearances in all competitions for Los Blancos and is the club&#8217;s second all-time top scorer behind only Cristiano Ronaldo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">More to follow <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Karim Benzema is leaving Real Madrid after 14 brilliant years at the Spanish club<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DailyMailSport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"social-links-title\">Share or comment on this article: <\/h3>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12157357\/BREAKING-NEWS-Real-Madrid-announce-Karim-Benzema-LEAVING-club.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid announce Karim Benzema will leave the club this summer after agreeing to end his &#8216;unforgettable&#8217; 14-year spell&#8230; as a big-money move to Saudi Arabia is earmarked for the winner of the Golden Ball. Real Madrid have confirmed that Karim Benzema will leave the club this summerThe 35-year-old departs as the Whites&#8217; second-highest scorer of all time, the Ballon d&#8217;Or winner will join Saudi Pro League champions Al-Ittihad. By Adrian Bishop for Mailonline Published: 06:04 EDT, June 4, 2023 | Updated: 06:16 EDT, June 4, 2023 Karim Benzema is set to leave Real Madrid this summer after 14 years&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23472,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23470\/revisions\/23472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}