Karim Benzema has enjoyed the finest season of his Real Madrid career in 2019/20.

The man now responsible for carrying Los Blancos' attack scored 21 goals and assisted a further eight to help secure the La Liga crown.

To put Benzema's influence up front into perspective, Real Madrid's next top scorer in the league is Sergio Ramos with 11.

Amazingly, not a single other forward in the club's squad came close to double figures for goals in La Liga this season, with Casemiro and Toni Kroos joint third on four goals apiece.

Without Benzema, Real Madrid wouldn't have won the league, it really is that simple. His performances in 2019/20 will have him fairly labelled as one of the club's greatest ever players.

Benzema with the La Liga trophy

He's the striker that can do it all, but where does he rank in term of the finest forwards to hail from France?

Well, one of his former teammates at Lyon believes he is a 'more complete player' than Arsenal and Les Bleus legend, Thierry Henry.

"I think he has largely the level of Thierry," Ex-Lyon star Sidney Govou told L'Equipe.

"Thierry really impressed me because he was not only a fast player but he had the ball. But Karim is more complete.

Henry as manager of AS Monaco

"He also has a kind of presence because he is smaller and less athletic. Karim has always been a top player. If you love football, it's impossible not to love him."

More complete than Henry? Sorry, Sidney, but that's just plain wrong.

While Benzema is one of the great strikers of the modern era, you'll be hard pushed to find a more complete player throughout history than Henry.

The man was a serial goal scorer for Arsenal, Barcelona and France, but he was also an elite creator and supplier of goals.

Henry with Arsenal

Lest we forget, Henry provided 20 assists in one league season for the Gunners in 2002/03, a figure which is still a Premier League record to this day.

No out-and-out striker - including Benzema - in the present day is capable of replicating those numbers.