Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 105. (Read 119057 times)

You are right, since being brought in from PSG in 2023, Neymar has only played 3 times without scoring a goal so we can say that he did not contribute to Al-Hilal this season while the contract will end in 2025 well, we don't know what steps Al-Hilal will take next. So far we have not heard any rumors regarding this player even though we know that Al Hilal will definitely be harmed. To be honest, I almost forgot about this player because I haven't seen him play in a long time.

I agree if Al-Hilal terminates his contract and looks for another player as a replacement, why keep him in the team while having no contribution and Al-Hilal had to pay a high price for it. I'm sure Al-Hilal can get other more useful players moreover, in this transfer window, there are several European players whose contracts will expire.

Previously, Neymar was scheduled to return to play between August, according to the Brazilian national team doctor at that time. So if Al Hilal keeps him, it is likely that Neymar can return to play with Al Hilal after the new season starts. I had read several previous posts, if Al Hilal had reported about Neymar recently. It is true, Al Hilal is still a strong team even without Neymar last season. In the coming season, we do not know Al Hilal's overall performance. Although this team is one of the elite teams in the Saudi League, there are several competing teams that are ready to compete in the coming season. There is nothing wrong with keeping Neymar, after all he is still under contract with Al Hilal for another season. Jorge Jesus is a coach who has handled Al Hilal before, so when he returns to handle Al Hilal, he is already quite familiar with this team. Next season the competition will be quite competitive, considering that the teams that are Al Hilal's competitors are not sitting still to increase the strength of their squads. one of them is Al Nassr, the team that is Al Hilal's rival will certainly be even tighter in competing for the League trophy. plus, several other clubs seem to also be participating in enlivening the competition after the Saudi Pro League is held. isn't this more interesting, so it's natural that Al Hilal will not let go of Neymar. after all, there is not necessarily a club from another League that is willing to pay for Neymar's services with his condition that is not yet certain.

Neymar was a disaster at Al Hilal. He cost a fortune, expecting a superstar and game-changer. Rather, what did they find? Injury-prone celeb who's spent more time on the bench than on the pitch. Al Hilal need not have him. They are winning and claiming the championship even without him! So what's the point of keeping a guy who's just draining your bank account?

Now, they're stuck with him. Nobody wants to pay a large contract for an injury-prone player. It's a headache, a big one. And you know what happens when you have headaches? You can't focus. You can't plan. And that's terrible news given Al Ittihad and Al Nassr are breathing down your neck. So, what's the solution? I don't know, maybe cut their losses? Perhaps attempt trading him for a bag of soccer balls. Though I'm not sure, something must change. In Neymar's case? It's messy and not going to clear very soon.

Yes, Neymar is indeed a burden for Al Hilal. I can't understand whether Al Hilal is a club that likes to throw money out the window or they have no experience in the transfer market. They brought a player who is constantly injured like Neymar, I don't know what they will get in this deal. Media for the club?

Since the beginning of the year, Neymar has mainly lived in the US and Brazil. Since moving to Al Hilal in the summer of 2023, the Brazilian striker's contributions have been quite limited. He has only played 5 matches for Al Hilal, scored 1 goal, and had 3 assists. Neymar could become the worst flop. Al Hilal is also losing patience with the Brazilian superstar. I guess it's possible that after the contract expires, the two sides will "go their separate ways". There will be no team with enough money to naively want to recruit Neymar.

To be honest, Neymar is now just a burden that Al Hilal has to bear, because they have to pay his salary even though he doesn't play. On the one hand, without Neymar's presence, they also have no problems and can even perform well, apart from that, there are personal problems between Neymar and the management which are certainly a pressure. Some time ago, Al Hilal expressed their annoyance at Neymar because this player was unable to maintain his condition, but this is something difficult because the player himself certainly does not want to experience this problem.

Even if Al Hilal wants to sell Neymar, I think it is quite difficult because of his condition. Other clubs will not take the risk of buying a player who is not in his best form or even injured. What Al Hilal can do now is wait for their player to recover and if they don't want to take any more risks, they must quickly sell him when there is an offer.

Neymar Jr is dormant player, still injured and have been sideline for months, not good for the club because they signed him from Paris Saint-Germain because he was the positioned player that would relieve pressure. Al Hilal don't depend on Neymar Jr for winning games and lifting trophies. They've in place, the expected squad to clean out the competitive race.

Al-Hilal has always remained strong even without Neymar. but I'm sure many are looking forward to Neymar returning to play at Al-Hilal when he recovers. And Neymar's condition has indeed improved, although he has not yet fully recovered. But in the next season, we can hope that Neymar will be able to play again. Neymar has indeed added to the popularity of the SPL in the eyes of the football world. So even without him playing, actually just being part of the Al-Hilal club is already an attraction in itself. Jorge Jesus is indeed a genius coach. He is able to maximize every player that Al-hilal has very well. And last season Al-hilal also achieved a very convincing unbeaten record in the SPL. Because Al-hilal always seems to make victory so easy for them to get. Maybe next season will indeed be a more interesting season. Because Al-hilal will try to dominate again and other teams will try to catch up.

But Al-Hilal uses Neymar's big name very well for marketing purposes and this can still help the club's income even though Neymar has never played a match with Al-Hilal. I think there are positive and negative values ​​that can be taken from the Neymar incident and of course even though Al-Hilal is not strengthened by Neymar they are still as strong.

It's all because of the intelligence of coach Jorge Jesus who is known to be very cool in handling the Al-Hilal squad and wherever they step they always win. We can also see in the Saudi pro league Al-Hilal remains an undefeated team last season and it is possible that next season they will still maintain that record. Well, Neymar will only be a luxurious decoration owned by Al-Hilal and regardless of whether he plays or not because he is still injured, it will not change anything if Al-Hilal still dominates the league.

I still remember clearly that before signing Neymar, Al Hilal management accepted the fact that Neymar could get injured but still they signed Neymar. There were two reasons behind Neymar's contract with their club, one is to bring all the eyes of Neymar fans around the world to the Saudi League, and on the other hand, to increase the performance of the team. I am a neymar fan and before neymar joined al hilal club i never watched al hilal games but after neymar signed with al hilal i watched all the matches neymar played for al hilal and even after neymar was injured i was a regular point of this team. Looking at the table and seeing the match results. Maybe there are many more fans like me who support Neymar like this and support Neymar's team Al Hilal. 

If Neymar is fully fit next season, Neymar's club will fulfill all the objectives for which he was signed. Now it remains to be seen if Neymar can return fit and remain injury free for the entire season.

We are in preseason, Laurent Blanc had first game but we can't give any statement about his performance because he is going to take time for having understanding of players and team chemistry which is surely going to have changed in coming days because we all know change of coach always create problems and it's never been easy for a new coach to have things good in early games.

Karim Benzema and Moussa Diaby are surely going to give their best in coming season after having disappointed last season where they were down and out of top three which give them setback now as we are heading for the start of the new season all teams are trying their best for fixing their problems which are giving them headache in last season specially Al Ittihad and Al Nassr need to be had better and improved.

Laurent Blanc is new coach so it is natural that he has not been able to show good performance, strategy or strong play for Al Ittihad, after all, this is only pre-season match and I sure that in pre-season matches in the future we will definitely find many unexpected surprises.
Many people consider match like this to be match filled with drama and also like manipulation where the really strong team just plays as they please or doesn't really care about winning, it just that during pre-season I don't really care about who is superior because they can easily lose.
Just look at how Al Ittihad played yesterday against Sevilla, they played like they weren't very coordinated and they didn't take advantage of some of the opportunities they had, but that normal because winning won't give anything.
Moreover, if this is considered an important match then Al Ittihad will definitely win, for they will show that their readiness for future SPL competitions is truly mature.

Al Hilal impressively dominated Saudi Professional League 2023 - 2024 season almost without contributions from Neymar. He only had several matches for them with nearly no impression and got a serious injury, missed nearly a whole season. This means Al Hilal are very strong even without Neymar so the recovery and return of Neymar in a new season, is only one potential plus for Al Hilal squad. If Neymar plays well, he will contribute to make Al Hilal stronger and can defend their title. If Neymar plays bad, Al Hilal can play well with other players, not big issue to worry.

Al Hilal, after one dominating season, will be challenged more by other teams in Saudi Professional League. They will have harder job to complete and defend their championship but with strength they have, they can succeed with this task. If Al Nassr won't improve their defense system, they will less likely be able to compete with Al Hilal and beat Al Hilal in a long season competition.

Without Neymar Al Hilal have shown their best strength last season and if he returns fit and joins the team at the start of this season of course that is quite good news. Fans are of course looking forward to Neymar's action on the field, but it's a shame that he often gets injured because when he recovered, it wasn't long before he was injured again. It may be true that Neymar's recruitment did not end as desired because he had frequent injuries which hampered him last season.

This season, several other teams will try to build their strength to become stronger, as has been done by Al Ittihad, where they are quite active in tempting many of Europe's top players in this transfer market.
For Ronaldo, of course, he will target the title this season with Al Nassr because he wants to taste a prestigious trophy before he announces his retirement.

Don't forget the opponent is Sevilla one of the kings of European clubs so there is no need to be surprised if Al-Ittihad is defeated, on the other hand I think there is a slight improvement in Al-Ittihad because they only conceded one goal. As we know last season Al-Ittihad weakness was in the defense line so they have to pay attention to this one if they want to stay competitive next season, I also heard some attempts by Al-Ittihad to bring in some players in this transfer window but so far not yet, one of them is Kevin De Bruyne who failed to be brought in. Yeah there are still a few weeks left to hunt for new players or else Al-Ittihad will remain under Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal.

From the formation of players we can see who are the players used in the Sevilla match against Ittihad and everyone knows friendly matches are not very important because they only give some time for young players to feel a few matches before the new season starts.
With other meanings like every club only gives players the opportunity who does not have full time in the real match.

We may not need to be surprised by the results of the match because even though Sevilla is one of the popular European clubs, it does not mean that Ittihad cannot provide resistance so the score ended 1-0.

You are right about how Al Hilal is going to be stronger than Al Nassr if Neymar joins the squad next season, Al Hilal will be very strong even when Neymar is not around and if Neymar joins the squad it will be very difficult for Al Nassr to compete with them, Al Hilal every position is very strong that they don’t lack any position in the squad, the goalkeeper is also good, I just hope Al Nassr survive the pressure that they will face next season, I think Al Nassr needs more players because if the team want to continue with some of the players that played for them last season they are going to suffer a lot next season.

Al Nassr needs another strong defensive player that they will join with La Porte because looking at last season he tried but the second defensive player is not good enough to hold the position with him, Al Nassr needs a defensive player and also a strong defensive midfielder that will be able to compete with Brozovic, Brozovic sometimes needs to rest but he played every game and that put pressure on him and is affecting the team, Al Nassr has signed another goalkeeper and that is good so it remains the position I just mentioned.

It doesn't matter to them whether they lose or win in this match, the most important thing is that they can see where they have weaknesses so that they can fix them in the real competition later. Friendly matches like this are very important for a team, because they can evaluate before starting the competition. Yes, it should have been a match that ended in a draw if only the golden opportunity they got could have been made into a goal. But they don't need to regret this result, because their game was actually good at the beginning. Although there are still many notes that they need to fix to make the team better next season. The Saudi Pro League team must have more friendly matches with stronger teams, it will make them learn a lot about how different strengths with different playing styles too.

Since Barcelona is broke, Al Hilal might be the finest thing that has ever happened to Viter Roque. This Saudi league reflects the future. Its got money, its got ambition, its got the best players in the world flocking to it. Roque, he might shine there. He may represent the front of a brand fresh soccer era. And Barcelona, they get a nice check to help them clean up their mess. Everyone benefits.

Some of you could wonder: "But, what about Europe? Should he not visit a major European team?" Europe is tired. Its old news. This Saudi league is new, interesting, and the venue to be. Roque can establish himself there and turn into a legendary figure. And you know what? He might even pick up two or three skills about other cultures and forms of play. It will improve his game and round him more broadly.

So, this deal? Its not only smart; its outstanding. Its a win-win for everybody involved. That is soccer's future. And you also know what? If more of these well-known athletes start down Roque's path, I wouldnt be surprised.

It's a shame that he wasn't able to turn that opportunity into a goal for Al-Ittihad, even though that was the only chance for at least Al-Ittihad to get good results at the start. In this match Sevilla were the favorites, it's natural they won, in fact i was amazed by Al-Ittihad, they only lost by 1 goal to Sevilla which should have been 2 or 3 goals if we look at the composition of the players from each team.

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In today's pre-season match, Al-Ittihad suffered a narrow defeat from Sevilla and I think they have not found the right chemistry with Laurent Blanc's new strategy. There are no match statistics but seeing Karim Benzema and Moussa Diaby playing in this match is certainly not a reason for Al-Ittihad to lose.

Karim Benzema even got a penalty kick but unfortunately it failed to produce a goal. Both clubs rotated their players in two different halves but Ocampos' goal in the 42nd minute could not be equalized. The rest of the two teams can correct each other's game but for Al-Ittihad this is an important match as preparation before facing strong competitors in the Saudi pro league.