Walter Benitez may have played his last game in Reims on Saturday evening in the jersey of OGC Nice. At the end of this new incredible victory, which allows the Aiglons to finish the season in 5th place, Walter Benitez revealed to us in the corridors of Auguste-Delaune to be in the greatest vagueness concerning his future. The Gym goalkeeper is indeed coming to the end of his contract on June 30 and the Argentinian does not know if he will be present when training resumes, set for Monday June 27 by Christophe Galtier. “I hope I’ll be there but I don’t know. My contract ends so we will see with the club“.
Benitez wants to continue the adventure
When in the summer of 2020 Walter Benitez extends his contract in Nice, he actually signs for two years plus an option. The third depended on qualifying for the Champions League, who flew away in the spring of 2022. Benitez will therefore be free on June 30, unless the player and the club find an agreement to extend the adventure. What seems to be the wish of the Nice porter. “Nice is a club that progresses every year and that’s what I’m looking for so if I stay here it will be very good for me,” told us Benitez, vice-captain of Galtier this season and who wore the armband in Reims after Dante’s exit at the break.
Only 1 game missed in Ligue 1 since August 2019
At 29 the Argentinian has just completed his sixth season at OGC Nice and was among the five nominated to receive the trophy for best goalkeeper of the season in Ligue 1. Despite the two goals conceded in Reims, Benitez is the goalkeeper who has signed the most clean sheets this season (14) and shines with his regularity. Benitez has played 100 of the 101 Ligue 1 games played by OGC Nice since the club was bought out in August 2019 by Ineos.
Benitez or Bulka in the Nice goal on August 8?
So did he wear the Nice jersey for the 188th and last time on Saturday? The ball is in the court of management, who can also exercise the purchase option included in Marcin Bulka’s loan, convincing every time he replaced Benitez this season, especially in the Coupe de France. Impossible today to know who will be in the goal of the Gym on August 8 for the resumption of Ligue 1.