If the coach tells me to my face that it is only because of football, fine, I'll continue to work," Benzema told French sports daily L'Equipe on Wednesday. "If there is another reason, he just had to tell it to my face and I'm done with him. France do not seem to have missed Benzema, impressing at Euro 2016 with Antoine Griezmann and Dimitri Payet shining up front. "A lot of people (in France) don't want me to succeed," he said. "I have the feeling that my name is being manipulated for reasons that have nothing to do with football."

Source: bd News24 May 17, 2017 08:37 UTC