{"id":140509,"date":"2015-08-04T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T11:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=140509"},"modified":"2015-08-04T11:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T11:06:23","slug":"bale-and-benzema-staying-at-real-madrid-benitez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=140509","title":{"rendered":"Bale and Benzema staying at Real Madrid &#8211; Benitez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Real Madrid manager Rafael Benitez does not expect forwards Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema to leave the club.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh international Bale, 26, has been <span class=\"text\">linked with a move to Manchester United<\/span><span class=\"external-link-icon\">\u00a0<\/span> and France&#8217;s <span class=\"text\">Benzema, 27, with Arsenal.<\/span><span class=\"external-link-icon\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to talk about offers,&#8221; said Benitez. &#8220;Everything is well and he&#8217;s (Bale) going to have a good season with us, I&#8217;m sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Benzema, he added: &#8220;My answer is that I think Benzema is going to stay with us. I&#8217;m very happy with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bale&#8217;s future has again come under question as Angel Di Maria is close to a \u00a344.5m move from United to Paris St-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gareth is a huge player for us and I know that he&#8217;s happy,&#8221; added Benitez.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard was speaking before Tuesday&#8217;s game against Bale&#8217;s former club Tottenham in a pre-season tournament also involving AC Milan and hosts Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>However, Benitez would not comment on any potential move for Manchester United&#8217;s 24-year-old keeper David De Gea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve said in five previous press conferences that I don&#8217;t want to talk about players who are in other teams,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have three very good keepers. I can talk about them, not other goalkeepers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"cross-head\"><strong>Schweinsteiger &#8216;never in good condition&#8217; in last three years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manchester United signed midfielder Bastian Schwiensteiger, 31,from Bayern Munich this summer and the German club&#8217;s manager Pep Guardiola says he is a &#8220;top&#8221; player if he can stay fit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he does not have injury problems, I am completely convinced he will do very well at Manchester United,&#8221; said Guardiola. &#8220;He is a top, top player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, during the last three years he was never in good condition. He is going to play really good there. I really hope that is going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid manager Rafael Benitez does not expect forwards Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema to leave the club. Welsh international Bale, 26, has been linked with a move to Manchester United\u00a0 and France&#8217;s Benzema, 27, with Arsenal.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to talk about offers,&#8221; said Benitez. &#8220;Everything is well and he&#8217;s (Bale) going to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":140510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-140509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}