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Al-Qadsiah behaviour for summer transfer window it's quite interesting because they had decide to buy some of European players to strengthen their squad and if we compared to other promotion teams such as Al-Orobah and Al-Kholood they are very active this summer seems they have an ambition want to survive on Saudi Pro League for next season and based on the transfer lists of this team i have seen they bought at least 4 players from European club such as Nacho, Aubameyang, Nahitan Nández and Koen Casteels

And about Equi Fernández several month ago he was into the radar some of European big clubs such as AC Milan, Benfica, Fiorentina and even Liverpool this because these clubs feel Equi Fernández is potential player which Boca Junior has but i still don't understand why he decide to accept the offers from Al-Qadsiah and playing at Saudi Pro League because in my opinion Equi Fernández still can choose to playing at Europa if he want and i think with his current age and his talent is not hard for him to gets new club on Europa

With some of new experience players from Europa i want to know the performance of Al-Qadsiah next season whether they can able to performing well or not however i just realized that Saudi Pro League will be starting on August 1 which mean this early compared to the league from European countries but for transfer window Saudi Pro League has longer duration than the European transfer window as it closes on September 9

Of the many players who have played in Europe but are now being sought after by European teams, one of them is N'Golo Kanté. This is natural because even with the French team he can show a good game in midfield even though he has not been able to bring France to the title at Euro 2024. However, overall his game is really needed by the French national team, so European teams are interested in bringing him from Al Ittihad.
I see something special about this player, even though he doesn't stand out like a star player, his role in midfield provides comfort for the defense and he is very good at maintaining balance in midfield. Actually, he has a 3 year contract with the team from the Saudi Pro League, which means there are still 2 years left. However, Al Ittihad doesn't seem to want to make it difficult if he wants to leave and they invite N'Golo Kanté to leave if he wants to do so.

Al-Qadsiah is still not satisfied after successfully bringing in Nacho and Aubameyang. This time they want to hunt for players in different positions and Boca Junior midfielder Equi Fernández is their next target. He is still very young 21 years old and it seems like he is ready to sacrifice his career to make more money in the Saudi pro league.

Maybe you are no longer surprised by a phenomenon like this, but as long as financial strength is the reason, young players will be tempted by this offer. A personal agreement has been reached and now we just have to wait for Boca Junior's decision to let him go or not. But Al-Qadsiah always has other plans if the fee offered feels insufficient for Boca Junior, so they are prepared to pay 15 million euros to make this transfer successful.

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It is known that Al Nassr gave up on bringing in the goalkeeper because Manchester City made a fairly high offer for the player and Man City did not accept the negotiations that Al Nassr had offered. In my opinion, it is very reasonable for Man City to price this goalkeeper at 50 million euros because he has been a valuable player for Man City for 7 years and he is the main goalkeeper and he is not too old, I don't understand why Al Nassr is not willing to pay that price even though as far as I know Saudi League clubs are not too concerned about expensive transfers because that The most important thing is that their league can continue to develop.

However, Al Nassr has brought in their new goalkeeper who is cheaper and no less good than Ederson. The hope is that this new goalkeeper can keep Al Nassr's defense stronger next season, so not concede as many goals and can compete with Al Hilal in the hunt SPL degree.

I'm not surprised by this news that Ngolo Kante is likely to leave Al Ittihad this summer to join a European club and that's because of how impressive he was with France during the just concluded European championship. The France international I thought wouldn't be that energetic again after leaving the shores of Europe but little did I know that even while playing for a Saudi club, Ngolo Kante will still be able to retain his quality kind of football. He deserves to play few more seasons with a European club if you ask me because he still have all the abilities to play for any top European club.
West Ham in their quest to strengthen the club ahead of next season must sign Ngolo Kante if they get an acceptance nod from the France international.

Yes, Kanté is a safe and cost-optimized solution for West Ham at present. Not to mention that the French team is only 33 years old and still has enough strength to maintain top competition for another 1 or 2 seasons. But Al Ittihad's stance on N'Golo Kanté is still very clear. The Saudi Arabian team has no intention of selling Kante this summer. Laurent Blanc and the club's board are planning to use Kanté as a key part of the project, despite West Ham's approach.  And Kanté himself does not want to return to the EPL. Now he wants to play softer football and be able to play more time. EPL is no longer suitable for Kanté. More importantly, at this time, Kanté is said to be receiving a salary of up to 50 million euros/year at Al Ittihad. West Ham will not be able to pay that amount.

Why you conclude that Kante is close to leave Al Ittihad? So far, Al Ittihad management never has the intention to sell him. There is no statement from Kante that he wants leaving the club as well. Moreover, now Al Ittihad has a new coach (Laurent Blanc), Kante must feel comfortable to work with him. Laurent Blanc is a France manager, he is the same country as Kante.

Laurent Blanc and Al Ittihad board already make a statement, they want to keep Kante. They also already rejected the offer from West Ham. So, it is clear that Kane won't move anywhere, he will remain the player of Al Ittihad in the next season. It is because Kante is one of the key players in the midfield line. It is impossible to sell Kante, his role is still very crucial for the team.



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It is possible that this transfer will materialize, and we will see Kante back in action in the Premier League every week. In fact, Kante is under contract until June 2026 with Al Ittihad, I don't know for sure what was the reason why Al Ittihad let him go. Kante own performance is still quite good, especially when playing for the French national team even though he failed to become champion. West Ham certainly really wants Kante, because they know the qualities that the former Chelsea player has.

I don't think Al Ittihad is having financial difficulties that require them to let Kante go, their failure to defend the trophy last season is not a reasonable excuse to let Kante go. Al Ittihad performance could be worse next season if they let Kante leave, especially if they fail to recruit suitable players. I think Al Ittihad should reconsider their transfer policy, Kante is one of the best midfielders who should be kept.

N'Golo Kanté the player of Al Ittihad is very close to leaving the team and playing for the European teams again. This 33-year-old player also played for France in Euro 2024. Al Ittihad seems ready to let him go. Kanté was playing for Chelsea for seven years and in 2023 he left his team for the Saudi League and started playing for Al Ittihad.
Now West Ham is interested in hiring Kanté and they are ready to pay 24 million euros for this player.

I am honestly surprised how there aren't more players who are rejecting or leaving, because the cultural difference is huge there. I am not talking about anything "good" or "bad", I am not saying one side is "right" and the other side is "wrong". I am just saying that we are talking about a huge difference between most European nations and Saudi Arabia, it is just not similar, we have to accept that. That means, a player who lives 30+ years of his life in a culturally different nation, going to another different one, may face some issues, it may not feel the same. This is why some players probably just reject right away, like how Kroos didn't even consider, no matter how much money they offered him, and some players like Benzema and Rakitic have problems adjusting.

This is not really weird, it's normal that people may get used to living one way all their life and may feel weird about living some other way rest of their life, this is why it's important to remember that this is nobody's fault. We need to focus on how to make this work, and if they really want to make it happen one way or another, they just have to focus on the players who are single, easier to convince just one player, compared to their whole family.

We don't know for sure why Rakitic chose to leave Al Shabab, even though he recently joined Al Shabab.  Rakitic only has a record of playing eight times for Al Shabab, we even forgot that Rakitic was part of Al Shabab last season. It could be that the reason is none other than because this team's performance has declined so much, we have even forgotten that there was a great midfielder who joined Al Shabab. It is possible that another very simple reason could be that Rakitic prefers to play in his own country, love for his homeland which was the trigger for him to accept an offer from Hajduk Split with a two year contract. Despite the fantastic salary he earned with Al Shabab, in the end Rakitic chose to return to his country and defend one of the teams competing in the Croatian League.

Speaking of Al Shabab, if this team does not try to match its competitors. I mean, Al Shabab must make its team much more competitive. If not, this team will definitely have difficulty getting into the top four of the Saudi Pro League.

Saint Maximin is actually a very consistent player in every club that recruits him, but I don't know what is the reason for al ahli loaned him to other team today even though last season Saint Maximin played in all the matches played by Al ahli in the league, although he is not a sharp scorer but at least he was able to make a great contribution to every game played by Al Ahli last season, Loaning Saint Maximin is a fatal mistake for Al Ahli in my opinion, because after all Al Ahli has thrown away one of the best left wingers they have, so it will be difficult for Al Ahli to be able to compete next season in the title fight unless they can bring in another left winger who is better than him at the moment, although currently Al Ahli still has Sumayhan Alnabit and Modou Barrow as the other left wingers in the squad but the two players are not better than Saint Maximin so far.

While Maximin may not be a big loss, not replacing him would be a big loss. I agree that he wasn't some amazing player that can't be replaced, they can spend some money to get someone even better, easily, like spending 20-30 million would easily make it possible for them to get someone better.

However, if we are talking about not replacing, like if they do not get anyone, which they haven't so far, I do not think that they are going to be good at all, whoever is left there, isn't as good as Maximin. So that means they should be start looking at some transfers if they know what they are doing, it would definitely benefit everyone. I am not saying that it is going to be easy to handle it all, it is going to take some time, but we could make it work some other way if we know what we are doing.

Al Ahli should be looking at older players at Europe, or maybe some young talent from Latin America, that could be cheaper honestly and could be very beneficial for them to get. In any case, they are not good like Al Hilal or Al Nassr if you ask me, they need to spend some money to get as better as those teams, and for that they need to spend some huge bucks to get some great players for their team.

Al Nassr must build a better squad around Ronaldo, so they can increase their chances of winning trophies next season. Al Nassr weakness last season was very clear, their defense line was very porous, in my opinion Al Nassr management needs to recruit better players by taking advantage of the transfer window which is still open. So far, after they did not renew the contract with David Ospina, Al Nassr succeeded in recruiting Bento from Athletico Paranaense as his replacement. At least Al Nassr should recruit two defenders and one top playmaker, so that they have a more even squad depth. Financially, Al Nassr will not face any problems, they are able to pay the release clause of any player. Meanwhile, Al Nassr also has to look further ahead, they can't always depend on Ronaldo alone, they have to invest in younger players too.

Rakitic's unhappy in Saudi. He scored once and has only played a few games. Though the way of life might not be his fit, the money is reasonable. Who else knows? Legends want to play, not lounge about on a bench and be paid. He now wants to get home. Thank you. Al-Shabab comes out as smart club. This league is more about recognition and spreading their name. Bring big stars to show they take soccer seriously. Rakritic leaving is good. He had minimal influence. Al-Shabab calls for a hungry, winning player. That is the game, though, right? Get some wins and some losses. A small setback. Believe me, the Saudi Pro League is growing.

Usually they will go to the first club in their senior career, like Luis Suarez who went to Nacional from Atletico Madrid, Rakitic is indeed a Croatian, but his first club was Basel. I wonder why he didn't just go to Basel instead of Hajduk Split. After all, he's still 36 years old, still fit to compete for middle-class clubs in Europe, there's no strong reason why he should go to Hajduk Split, even though he earns a big salary at Al-Shabab.

Since being brought in he has only played 8 times for Al Shahab and recorded only 1 goal. It seems like there is a problem with this player's adaptation process, so he doesn't really like staying at Al Shahab for long and now he wants to leave the club he just played for. Another possibility is that he wants to retire in his country and perhaps an offer has come to him so he quickly says he wants to leave. If we talk about salary, I think he has earned a decent salary with this Saudi Arabian club.

Al Shahab also understands their players' desires well enough so that they do not make it difficult for them to leave if there is a club that is interested in this player. There is definitely a vacancy in the position, but considering Ivan Rakitic's contribution, in my opinion it is not too big, so it should not make it difficult for Al Shahab to fill the existing void. However, it is true that they have to move quickly to bring in new players.

Al Nassr have impressive performance with their attacking line last season by scoring 100 goals but very poor performed with their defense after conceding 42 goals. Actually Al Nassr's goals productivities only difference one goal with the winner team Al Hilal but they have solid defense with 23 goals conceded. Al Nassr have started to improve with their defense for next season after signing new goal keeper Bento from Brazil after difficult negotiation for signing Manchester City's goal keeper Ederson.

Seems Al Nassr won't loss oprotunity for winning domestic league next season and its Cristiano Ronaldo ambition after joining with Al Nassr last three years ago still can't win the domestic league trophy yet. Al Nassr still not stop fpr signing new player for next season ambiton become the domestic league winner, they will try to sign as several top players get bigger possibility become the winner next season.

Al Nassr having troubling season and having no trophy in lase season due to the worst defense which keep things in checking and allow their opponents to have better results now going to have improvement because they are trying to bring good quality players which will give them good performance into their weakest point.

There were rumours about possible transfer of Ederson but at the end we have Manchester City not allowed this possible transfer, so Al Nassr is now having another Brazilian goalkeeper Bento which is doing good job in Brazilian Serie A and recently having his calls for the Brazilian national team which mean he is also good quality player and surely going to give his best here at this club as well for their improved performance.

What do you think makes him not feel at home in the Saudi pro league? Could it be because the environment is uncomfortable or because you don't have the passion to play for Al-Shabab? However, if he wants to return to his country's club, that seems like a strong reason for him. However, he is a legend who still longs to return to his country and I think it is the right decision after much consideration.

Luckily Al-Shabab is quite open if Rakitic wants to leave and at least he doesn't leave a bad impression on the Saudi pro league which is usually only after big money. Rakitic proved money is not everything even though he did not complete his contract with Al-Shabab. With this, I hope that Al-Shabab is ready to find a replacement considering that next season is getting closer.