Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 100. (Read 119037 times)

Having change is every human's right so same happening in few regions in Gulf which was desert and things were never been easy now due to their unlimited sources they are opening up and having good changes specially in the UAE and Qatar are much ahead but in recent few years we are having same thing happening in Saudi Arab, and they are doing good work for this all specially their success for having soccer World Cup in 2034 is impressive now just because of this we are having huge investment in this league, and they are bringing quality players and coaches for the development of game and their national team.

In last two years, we are having too many big names which are joining this league and giving their best is having good improvement, and now we are having Saudi League into good leagues even we have to understand for having mark into top leagues they needed more time and effort, but their start is good, and they are on course to be had good success in coming years.

A team of Real Madrid caliber even had to wait for Mbappe to be a free agent before they could recruit him, this is clearly not just a matter of negotiating the price and salary. In my opinion, even top European teams have difficulty recruiting their target players, because every team wants to keep their key players, so they can maintain their chances of winning trophies. Teams from the Saudi Pro League will certainly face a bigger challenge, because in reality they are not the main choice for every player. As we can see, the Saudi Pro League is still in the early stages of development, it takes time to make it more competitive, so that it becomes one of the destinations for the world best players. For now, the Saudi Pro League is still the final port for old players, and indeed there are some young players, and so far there have been no transfer breakthroughs that have made the Saudi Pro League more talked about. If a player like Kroos is willing to move to Saudi and not retire first, it might be one of the most interesting this summer.

You can check all the SPL player transfers through this link: https://www.transfermarkt.com/saudi-professional-league/transfers/wettbewerb/SA1

I agree that there is no impressive transfer so far. I don't know why Saudi clubs look like to have no interest to spend a lot of money. Or the interest of European players has been decreasing to join SPL in the current season. Sure, there is a big change, we didn't see anymore a big transfer like Ronaldo, Benzema, Mane, or even Neymar. The best SPL transfer in the current season is Nacho Fernández from Real Madrid. It is unlikely to see another big players to join SPL in the remaining time of the current transfer window.

If you followed his rumor, you must already know that Al Nassr plans to extend his contract. It is reported that Al Nassr will extend 1 year for Ronaldo's contract. It means Ronaldo's contract will be over in Jun 30, 2026. If this happens, Ronaldo will keep playing in SPL until 40 years old. And he may also still play in Portugal national team as well.



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I don't know which deals have been sealed so far, maybe someone can provide an overview or give an informative link about what has happen so far, but if you ask me it feels like the transfer heat that the Saudi Professional League created in the past years has cooled down quite a lot. Transfers a la Ronaldo or Neymar are nowhere to be seen, are they?

So far there hasn't been any spectacular offer that was all over the media.

I am curious to see what Ronaldo is going to do after this season. I can see why he would not be able to resist an extension for another 200 million euros.  But let's see what is going to happen towards the end of the season. He might even go and extend his contract early if the Saudis put a big bag of money on the table.

While the attention is true, they are not making 10% of that money back right now, they are only capable of bringing these players by overpaying them by a lot, Ronaldo alone makes more money than what Saudi league generates as income, meaning that it is not going to be possible for Saudi League to keep this up if they want to be profitable.

However, since they make countless amount of money from oil income, they are not really interested in making this league profitable, they are willing to lose money in order to keep this growing. Will that mean if they spend enough money on the league, one day it will grow to be big enough to actually make good amount of money? I am not sure, but feels like that would take at least a decade, maybe more. They claimed that they want to be sixth biggest league in the world, but they are not even in top 10 right now, hell I wouldn't put them in top 20 right now, and they are spending as much as the top 5 leagues, that's not a good return.

Profits are made in the transfer window especially from SPL influential men. The top investors in Saudi Arabia will not relent, they will ensure they table the best offers for European players. Growth is the main target for these clubs because they've fought with everything and targeting big winning. Saudi Pro League is a tough one to predicts, it's been really a hectic day for most of these SPL clubs.

Big fund investment for signing top Europe players and make Saudi Pro League as most interested competition for prepare Saudi Arabia want to be single host of FIFA World Cup 2034. Started investment since last three season ago since recruit Cristiano Ronaldo make Saudi Pro League become more popular competition after many top players leave their top career with Europe team and joining for Saudi Arabia clubs.
Not any problem yet almost three season ago when Cristiano Ronaldo joining with Al Nassr because most of Saudi Arabia club not get difficult with salary payment and they have good financial condition.

Its most successful investment did by Saudi Arabia how to make their football competition become more popular and enough capital to be hos of World Cup 2034, not only invested with how beautiful their stadium but also Saudi Arabia brave make investment for their club sign many top qualities players and make most of them earn fantastic salary payment until become most expensive football salary around the world.

Saudi Pro League organizers are having good strategy from the early days when they started to work on bringing this league into limelight and their first success was having Cristiano Ronaldo here with this now things are taking huge changes and many big names are trying to have their part as well because mostly are feeling things are going on right track, and they can do good in future as well.

Here we also have to understand this league can't be at the top or having good standard in just one or two years it needs long time and strong strategy with good sources, and they are having all things which will help them for keeping things on track as we are having updates next season could be more improved because we are having many big names after ending their contracts are joining Saudi League this could be good change, and they will be surely feel better after having more big names here now they are having good intention to work on this and bring this all on better level.

Yeah this is their plan that we have known since the beginning whatever they do is just to attract attention not to compete with European clubs, what happened in the Saudi Pro League was just part of a trial I mean this plan has a deadline, when Investment in football is not profitable then they will stop it and they will continue to monitor its growth. I heard that Saudi wants to get out of dependence on oil so they try to divert it to other sectors such as entertainment, sports and property and they prepared a budget of more than 700 billion, imagine if investment in sports was not profitable then they will stop it. In addition, they also have the ambition to host the World Cup which I think is the right moment to measure investment on sports.

Considering what you say, it seems like what you say is true, we really can't compare PL & SPL clearly, they have different qualities & currently SPL is trying to improve the quality of its league. Slowly the SPL is becoming a league that is increasingly being recognized & considered by big clubs in Europe, and perhaps apart from exhibitions, their aim of competing with teams from Europe is to further introduce the SPL to the world.

Al-Shabab also does not want to lose to other teams in transfer activities and they are currently trying to negotiate with Sevilla to be able to sign Nemanja Gudelj. He is a Serbian player who also performed well at Euro 2024 and maybe that's why Al-Shabab wants to strengthen their defense by bringing him in.

The 32-year-old center-back will be a strong defender for Al-Shabab for the Saudi pro league competition next season and I think Al-Shabab knows what they need. They certainly don't want to continue to be in the shadow of teams like Al-Hilal, Al-Nassr, Al-Ittihad, and Al-Ahli and because of that they have their own way to be able to get their team on the right track. Nemanja Gudelj has one more year left on his contract and Al-Shabab should be able to sign him without having to spend more money.



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They are not exposed because they are not a popular league so people do not participate in this Saudi Pro League competition. But after they made a breakthrough by bringing in a lot of new players, they began to pay a lot of attention and now we also did not initially follow the Saudi pro -league now more updated on what happened here. Comparing them with popular competition in mainland Europe is clearly still unable to match it, but at least now they have begun to get a lot of attention.

This will continue to happen as long as they still have a lot of well -known players, I think if they stop this project then they will also fade again. The question until when will they continue to do this? Continue to bring European players to boost their popularity. One of their strengths is because they are a lot of money, so they have no trouble getting players by offering salaries that are higher than what they can receive before.

Saudi clubs are almost new as we have only seen Saudi clubs come into discussion since Cristiano Ronaldo joined this Saudi Pro League. But the clubs were formed from the past, these clubs were lagging behind due to lack of great and interesting players. Especially the European stars have rejuvenated these clubs, they have invested a lot of money to rejuvenate these clubs and most of this investment comes from the oil sector. 

But they are financially independent and they want to gain fame in the world. So it is their desire to add European stars to every club. This place in the Saudi Premier League will not be a loss if the clubs invest in this football club as they have come a long way.

Agree. Saudi league is developing league, they look more popular now and well known by more people. However, Saudi league is still not comparable with top leagues in Europe. Of course, the level of top European leagues is much higher than Saudi league. But Saudi league can develop to be a big league as well in the future although it is still below the level of the top European leagues. In my opinion, Saudi never has an intention to reach the level of European league, they are just trying to develop their league as great as possible.

Yes, money is a big factor to develop the league. Since many owners of Saudi clubs are rich people, they have no problem to spend a lot of money to buy big players. It can be top players from Europe, America, or Asia. I think they don't always target the top players from Europe. Well, let's see in the next few years, it there will be big development from Saudi league.

Bento, Diaby, and Aouar are just few new comers in SPL, there should be more players to come. Al Nassr, Al Ahli, Al Ittihad, and other big teams in SPL will always try to sign new big players. But it is not easy to sign them because some players still prefer to play in European big leagues. If there are not so many new players joining in this transfer window, maybe we can see more new players in the next transfer windows.

Saudi investment in football aims to improve the country image in the eyes of the world, considering that football can be accepted by anyone and is widely loved, so they choose this sport. Saudi wants to boost its tourism sector with various entertainment, so that they are not too dependent on oil money. Saudi policy in football is long-term, and it is proven that they will host the 2034 World Cup. So it is not surprising that in the future more top players and top managers will move to Saudi, so that the Saudi League will be more competitive.

Saudi Pro League clubs have quite stable finances, especially clubs under the auspices of the PIF, so they can easily recruit players from any League. I think this is just the initial stage of efforts to build the Saudi Pro League to be better, and in the future they will dominate the competition at the Asian level. Most likely Saudi investment in football will be successful, but we know that everything takes time to process. Al Nassr success in recruiting Ronaldo changed the paradigm of many football fans around the world, and the Portuguese megastar has made the Saudi Pro League famous.

I love how Saudi Arabia do their things when it involves entertainment and all UAE countries. We saw how well Qatar hosted the world cup and there were no problem or just some minor ones. In the future more kids from Saudi Arabia are going to be world stars and all this is going to be as they invested in football. We can't compare the football the Saudi Arabia league are playing to those that are being played in top European countries but they have improved from how they use to be and as they get more exposure through bringing in top players from Europa to come and play to retire in Saudi Arabia, they are going to make their football more entertaining to watch.

They obviously are moving and attracting top players like Cristiano Ronaldo. This is a wise approach that increases general play quality.

Recent friendlies like Al-Ettifaq's near loss to Real Oviedo have produced some conflicting results now. Still, we must maintain perspective on things. These are exhibition games, sometimes featuring experimental lines up. They neither define the actual strength of a league.

By pushing themselves against prominent European clubs, the SPL is demonstrating ambition. Development and progress benefit from this. Let us not, however, rush forth ahead of ourselves. The SPL is not instantly on level with the Premier League or Bundesliga. This is a method more in line with leagues like Ligue 1.

The SPL is on the right track, but its a journey. There will be losses as well as gains. Recall, people, its about consistent improvement rather than overnight miracles. Although we must be patient, the SPL has great potential.

The majority of Arab clubs are supported by very strong financial support, making it possible for them to continue to upgrade the quality of their squad every season, so it is not surprising that these clubs continue to compete not only in the SPL, but in the transfer market they also show tight competition in getting europe players  and of course money is their main weapon to achieve victory in this competition, but with the tight competition that is currently happening in bringing in European players it will actually make the popularity of the Arab League even greater, I think we will all continue to see fierce competition between Al hillal, Al nassr and Al Ahli next season considering that these three clubs are very aggressive in recruiting new european players at the moment, but to be honest, I personally will not be too curious about the progress of these three teams next season, but it is the only club that I want to see their abilities is Al-Qadisiyah, Al-Qadisiyah is a team that was just promoted to the SPL last season but they continue to make breakthroughs by recruiting many european players.

Saudi Pro League clubs which are now famous for their spendings having good strategy for checking their problems and having things settled before start of season with many clubs are currently on European tour Al Ittihad is also having few games even results are not good for them, but they are able to have experience which will help them in Saudi League games now just few days left in start of season but in pre-season games they are facing problems first lost against Sevilla and now Farense.

In coming days, they are going to play against Real Betis and Inter Milan things like these are surely going to have good positive impact on clubs and league because now peoples are having them into their talks, and they are feeling this is also league which can produce good results and performance for the top players Al Ittihad is now having challenge ahead of them because they have not good end of their last season.

To be honest, it's unfair to compare Saudi teams with European teams for the time being. First of all, not all of their players are European, sure they may have brought in some good players from Europe, but they still have a lot of Arabic players there who are not that good at all, they have never been a great football country, hell even with Ronaldo there, they are having trouble selling out the tickets.

But, the point is to make football loved more there, this new young kid who took over even before his father passed away to be fair, but also became king later on, trying to turn his country into more of a western nation, like European, and he does many political changes based on that.

Football is just a cultural part of that, he wants to make sure that if Ronaldo is here, and other greats are here, and football is fun, he could make a lot of Arabic kids grow up wanting to be a football player and play with the best. So that is why it's a long term investment, not something that can benefit today or tomorrow. They will have to do this many years in a row before they can recoup their investment, and it will never be profitable, but it will definitely change the culture of the nation and have more people who like football in the future.