It's not news as such but Benzema has made it fairly clear that
a: His preferred next step is moving to a club in La Liga
b: He wants to stay at Lyons for one more season, for guaranteed regular football leading up to WC 2010 (when, presumably, he reckons his profile will be raised high enough to get the offers from Spain he is looking for)
You can to that the Aulas thing and the fact that Lyon are notoriously hard to bargain with when it comes to big money transfers.
All of which makes it fairly fecking unlikely he's signing for United this summer, or indeed ever.
IMHO.