Karim Benzema has no plans to leave Real Madrid for Arsenal

The France forward has been persistently linked with Arsenal, but took to Twitter to say he was going nowhere.

"For all those clowns who want to make believe things at my fans. Here this is my home ! £HalaMadridYNadaMas," Benzema wrote.

Real earlier pointedly mentioned Benzema in an update from squad training in a bid to quell rumours of a switch.

The Primera Division giants began their league campaign with a goalless draw at Sporting Gijon on Sunday to sit eighth in the La Liga table.

"Benzema worked with the group during the first part of the training session when the players who started against Sporting trained at a lower intensity level," a story on realmadrid.com read.

Not a huge surprise that Benzema is staying at Real Madrid, but he thought he would point it out himself. Describing various folk as "clowns" on social media is not perhaps showing a lot of decorum, but at least he makes it clear that he is not really going to be moving any time soon. Not that Arsenal were expecting his arrival. Certainly not in this window. Just a shame Rodney Marsh's mate got it so badly wrong about the bid for Benzema that never was.