{"id":420085,"date":"2011-05-09T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/09\/arsenal-ponder-swoop-for-real-madrids-karim-benzema-report\/"},"modified":"2011-05-09T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:01:00","slug":"arsenal-ponder-swoop-for-real-madrids-karim-benzema-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/09\/arsenal-ponder-swoop-for-real-madrids-karim-benzema-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal ponder swoop for Real Madrid&#8217;s Karim Benzema &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h4>9 May 2011 14:01:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"58.6560805577\">\n<div readability=\"14.4578313253\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liga : Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/126100\/126176_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Liga : Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"17.3661971831\"><em>For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2559\/rumours\/archive\/1\">here<\/a>.<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/france\/8261\/karim-benzema\">Karim Benzema<\/a> has attracted the interest of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/94\/arsenal-news\">Arsenal<\/a> with his strong performances for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/spain\/124\/real-madrid-news\">Real Madrid<\/a> in the past couple of months, <em>Marca<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Gunners manager Arsene Wenger is allegedly looking to add a new attacker to his squad in the summer transfer window to partner Robin van Persie, and has set his sights on the 23-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Benzema moved to the Spanish capital from Lyon in the summer of 2009 but has struggled to make an impact at the Santiago Bernabeu, despite enjoying a decent goalscoring run of late.<\/p>\n<p>The French international was in impressive form in the first months of 2011, but was dropped from Madrid&#8217;s starting XI again for the Champions League matches against Barcelona, much to the dismay of the striker.<\/p>\n<p>A report earlier this week suggested that Madrid are determined to hold on to Benzema, but Arsenal are hopeful that an offer in the region of \u00a322 million will be enough to lure him to London.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/09\/2478316\/arsenal-ponder-swoop-for-real-madrids-karim-benzema-report\" title=\"Arsenal ponder swoop for Real Madrid's Karim Benzema - report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arsenal ponder swoop for Real Madrid&#8217;s Karim Benzema &#8211; report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 9 May 2011 14:01:00 Liga : Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) Related Links Teams Players For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section here . Karim Benzema has attracted the interest of Arsenal with his strong performances for Real Madrid in the past couple of months, Marca reports. Gunners manager Arsene Wenger is allegedly looking to add a new attacker to his squad in the summer transfer window to partner Robin van Persie, and has set his sights on the 23-year-old<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-420085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Arsenal ponder swoop for Real Madrid&#039;s Karim Benzema - report - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/09\/arsenal-ponder-swoop-for-real-madrids-karim-benzema-report\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Arsenal ponder swoop for Real Madrid&#039;s Karim Benzema - report - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"9 May 2011 14:01:00 Liga : Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) Related Links Teams Players For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section here . 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