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Usually we have things like these while journalists wants to sell their product with having masala like this, but it's not happening on any cost because we all know UEFA is having all things which needed for them with Al Nassr is surely good club, but it's not big deal having Ronaldo mean now they are eligible for having spot into UEFA Champions League which will surely create serious problems for the UEFA because in next season FC Inter Miami can also ask for this favour which is having Lionel Messi which is also big name in soccer.

There were few rumors as Al Nassr management having wish like this, but this was promptly rejected by the UEFA authorities, and then we have no further update about this with now this all topic is already closed, but few media peoples love to have intention so they again and again started things like these which have no baseline.

If the point is that Al-Nasr is a popular club, then I don’t think the Champions League needs any additional popularity, and I also doubt that UEFA will take this step just for the sake of Ronaldo, so that he can continue to play in the Champions League. And if they let Al-Nasr play in the UEFA Champions League, then will need to think about giving such an opportunity to other best clubs from around the world, so I think that this will not happen.

Cristiano Ronaldo plays in the Saudi club Al Nasser and as you heard last season I heard rumors that Al Nasser could play in the Champions League from the Saudi League but it is not as simple as we heard. There are many journalists who are claiming with different explanations that Al Nasser should play in the Champions League but there is no confirmation from UEFA. Although there is no such guarantee, there is a possibility that the top local teams of the Saudi League will play in the Champions League. Saudi League teams only need to focus on their performance and improve their performance every season to fulfill their dream of playing in the Champions League.

I think Morata will remain the main striker of Atletico Madrid. Who can replace Morata? Griezmann won't replace him, Griezmann often played together with Morata. Griezmann played as a winger or second striker, he didn't play as a striker. Since Simeone has no other top striker, Morata will be the only option for the position.

Although there is a rumor that Morata may move to AC Milan or Juventus, I think it will never happen. Atletico Madrid has no choice, they must keep Morata because Morata has the best stats playing as a striker in Atletico Madrid. It will be a stupid decision if Simeone sells him to Juventus or AC Milan. 

Although it is easy for Al-Qadsiah to pay 15 million, the transfer will never happen if Morata doesn't want to move to Saudi league. In my humble opinion, Morata is comfortable playing as Atletico Madrid player. Although he doesn't get big salary, he can live in his country at least. Morata must prefer to play in his country than playing in a country he never knows.

Yes that's right. The investment made by Saudi Arabia is not only in the field of football but in all infrastructure because they have very big ambitions for the 2034 world cup, this is to make the pro league more competitive with the aim of making local players even better in the field of football so that it will have an impact on the Saudi Arabian national team. It must be admitted that after the Qatar World Cup, Saudi Arabia is very serious about investing in football.

And this cannot be denied since the arrival of C. Ronaldo. The Arab League is increasingly being highlighted and covered by the media and even broadcasting rights are increasing, and it cannot be denied that Ronaldo opened the doors to the world of Arab League football and many top European players are starting to arrive. So it is not surprising that when the pro league transfer market is very active in recruiting European players, maybe we will be surprised again that after the euro there will be more and more European players playing in the SPL league.

But I'm not sure they can get young players, they will only get old players because of course young players want to play in European leagues, not Asian leagues.

Definitely peak time for him to join this league without a doubt. He is not that great anymore and can't find decent time at some big club, and can't even score well at small clubs because small clubs are not really that good so doesn't give him the opportunity to play with good players that can pass him well. So, what can he do? He could go to Saudi league, where he could play 2 more seasons at least, maybe even more if he stays fit and wants to continue and enjoys the situation like Ronaldo does. In that case, I can see Auby end up playing very well for a few more years and score like 20+ goals a season.

Of course this depends on which team he goes to as well, because if he goes to a team that isn't all that great then we are going to end up seeing him having the same issues. He is a striker, he is a scorer ,he needs others to give him good passes to score, he can't just take the ball from midfield and score, so he needs to go to a decent club in Saudi as well.

The Saudis realized that if they continued spending a lot of money on a lot of signings they would go bankrupt, that's why this season they are offering contracts with less money compared to the contracts they offered last season, because the Saudis are not making those big offers that they did last season, many players are not going to play in Saudi Arabia and I highly doubt that Aubameyang will leave the league1 to go and play in the Saudi league with a lower contract than what the Saudis offered last season. what really caused last season

If there were many European players agreeing to play in the Saudi league, it was because of the high amounts of money that the Saudis were offering and the contracts were for 3 years, but from what I see, the Saudis changed their offers a lot, which means that European players do not feel very attracted to playing in the Saudi league and honestly, if any player who plays in Europe wants to play in the Saudi league, then it is better that that player just accepts if he is going to play in the big teams in the Saudi league so he can retire in the best possible way.


He did well to refuse this offer from Al-Qadsiah, this Al-Qadsiah team was a team from the second division of the pro Saudi league and that next season they will play in the first league but will have a great chance of being relegated next season. It wouldn't have been a good choice to go and play for Al-Qadsiah when he can continue playing well in Spain

Actually Alvaro Morata want to stayed at Atletico Madrid but seems if he decided to stayed in this team Simeone will not guarantee Alvaro Morata to gets one place on Atletico Madrid starting line up for next season and after this news appears then some of media has been speculate about his future for next season and actually Alvaro Morata was linked to Juventus or AC Milan but apparently these news is only remain rumour because these clubs have no plan to bid him in the near future

Currently Alvaro Morata is still focus to defend Spain on Euro Cup and he is the captain of this National Team and few days ago Alvaro Morata can bringing Spain to advances to the quarterfinal and recently i found one interesting news about him because promotion team Al-Qadsiah was attempts to gets Alvaro Morata from Atletico Madrid even some of Spain media has been says he was very close to moved to Al-Qadsiah especially Alvaro Morata has cheap release clause price only 15 million and it's not hard to Al-Qadsiah to pay on that price if Alvaro Morata is really interested to moved to this team and if this news is true then Alvaro Morata is became an second player who bought by Al-Qadsiah and previously we all know this team was successfully to bought Nacho from Real Madrid

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was one of the best strikers while he was at the Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal but due to his in disciplinary activities he lost his best and now having stay at the Marseille for three years with one year is already completed most chances he will try to stay here in France but if any Saudi Club having luxury offer for him then most chances he can take any decision because this will also give good profit to French club as well.

Currently, 35 years old and done good work on his prime which is surely good with if he is having chance to give his best here there is no doubt he could be good for the league and this will also good for himself because here we have less competitiveness, and he will be able to give his best again before end of his career.

Aubameyang last season became the top scorer in the European league even though his age has reached 35 years now, but he is still able to be a quite dangerous striker with Marseille, previously Aubameyang was speculated to go to the Arab League when he was still a Chelsea player, but surprisingly Chelsea released Aubameyang for free and chose to join Marseille until now,   Currently, to be honest, I don't find much information regarding Aubameyang big possibility to the current Arab League, because previously the interest from Al Shabab and Al Nassr occurred a few seasons ago when Aubameyang was still a Chelsea player, but for now it seems that the re-interest of the two teams is only limited to issues or hoaxes.

Aubameyang is currently comfortable in Marseille so I think maybe he will not consider the offer that comes from Arabia, but if it has indeed involved a lot of money later, of course all possibilities will happen in future, but I personally doubt because after searching on google related to this matter actually did not find accurate news and tends to be old news news.

Saudi League is having link into AFC so just because of this most chances there is no chance for them to have any connection with UEFA but as things are going, and we are having good improvement in AFC we will have good development which will help them for having improved facilities and things around because currently we are having UEFA Champions League as one of the best in world and AFC which is having the biggest competition fail to attract more support from the fans and their own continent due to many problems which are preventing them from having good competitive system.

There was some news about Al Nassr was interested to play into UEFA Champions League, but their application was rejected due to their own system which is correct because things like these surely create mess-up for them, and they are not going to create anything like this with currently they are doing good job for the development of this game.

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Aubameyang is the next target of European players that Saudi pro league clubs want to bring in and this time Al-Shabab is trying to recruit him. As we know, Aubameyang is too old to be a player who can compete at European level and it is time for him to think about the next step to be able to play football while earning a lot of money.

On the other hand, Aubameyang's agent is reportedly close to reaching an agreement with Al-Shabab but there are still no direct talks with Marseille. Al-Shabab has not yet provided a proposal regarding this transfer but it could come in a few days. Of course, Aubameyang's arrival will make the Saudi pro league even more busy again and this could also be a powerful weapon for Al-Shabab to have an experienced striker like him.

Do you think Aubameyang will join Al-Shabab? considering that De Zerbi still wants him to stay at Marseille.

Yes, the Saudi Arabian League is little by little starting to transform into a better football league. Bringing in many top players from Europe is indeed a very effective strategy to turn the Saudi Arabian League, which was previously devoid of interest, into a football league that is in the world's spotlight. Apart from that, clubs in Saudi Arabia also have financial conditions that are truly capable of carrying out this strategy. For this reason, if the Saudi Arabian League clubs can continue to consistently carry out their current strategy. It is possible that in the next few years the Saudi Arabian League will become a football league that can compete with the big leagues in Europe (in terms of fame). Because it has only been two seasons since the Saudi Arabian League implemented this strategy (recruiting top European players), the differences experienced by the Saudi Arabian League are very significant.

Apart from that, Ronaldo's arrival to the Saudi Arabian League also had a positive impact on the progress of the Saudi Arabian League. Because it cannot be denied, he has become a big magnet for other European players to join clubs in the Saudi Arabian League. Maybe if Ronaldo didn't join Al Nasr, I don't think the Saudi Arabian League would be as smooth as it is now in recruiting top players from Europe. Because of course players from Europe will definitely think twice about joining a Saudi Arabian League club. However, after Ronaldo joined Al Nasr, European players were increasingly open to joining the Saudi Arabian League. The reason is, they have seen Ronaldo join a club in the Saudi Arabian League, and he is still fine. For this reason, Ronaldo has an important role in the strategy carried out by Saudi Arabian League clubs.

And during the transfer market this summer, I'm sure there will be lots of players coming from Europe who will join clubs in the Saudi Arabian league. Because as far as I know, currently players like Nacho Fernandes have officially joined clubs in the Saudi Arabian league. So it is very likely that there will be other players who will join in the market this summer.

Even though as the request got rejected for them to play or participate in the European Champions League game, this shouldn't be a reason for Arab League management bodies to not continue in their efforts to better the league and making their league become a more popular attractive league as ever been, and to the extent that the EUFA body would even seek their interest in joining the Champions League competition when they must have realised that they've continue gaining the attention of these big name players, and they keep coming in and hence becomes a more interested football league side for supporters and fans to watch, EUFA would at some point have no option than to review their request and possibly got them granted.

The arrival of many star players certainly makes the Arab League more competitive today so this is what prompted some Arab league authority staff to submit a request to UEFA to allow the Arab League champions to play in the Champions League, but reportedly the request has been rejected by UEFA because the league leagues in Asia also have their own Champions League.  In addition, I think, if the Arab League club plays in the UEFA Champions League, of course they have to follow the rules from UEFA later, including the Financial Fair regulations, and make Arab clubs are no longer free to spend a lot of money in shopping for players like today.

I think the wild card requested by the Arab League authorities at UEFA will only make the Arab team start to rethink if they want to pay salaries and also transfer players at a large cost, so indirectly it may actually make the Arab League lose their popularity again for star players who have been moving to the Arab League just because of the big salary, I think for the time being, maybe the only way for Arab League clubs to be more famous, of course they have to win the Asian Champions League and win the Club World Cup.

Being team that has just been promoted and in the future being able to stay in the main division for longer is success because they managed to compete and get comfortable place when starting new challenge by facing other teams that are much stronger than before.
But we don't know whether Al-Qadsiah will be able to survive longer and survive the fierce competition well in the SPL, several teams were previously expected to achieve good results but in reality they failed.

Almost every competition or league will always have several dominant teams that can never be easily beaten, this is threat to every team that is promoted to the main division because if they meet strong team it will definitely only be and it will be difficult to collect points.
If next season Al-Qadsiah is relegated then it is very likely that Nacho will lose his enthusiasm for playing well even though he gets large salary, it could be said that apart from money there are also other factors that make Nacho join Al-Qadsiah and one of them is SPL promotion.

SPL competition will become increasingly fierce, every team is trying to bring in various great European players to be able to create an increasingly sharp and strong game, this is special challenge for every team that has just joined the SPL.

The Saudi League has a league that consists of many competitions and they also have an international league in their own league, namely the AFC Champions League, although it is not as famous as the UEFA Champions League, but the Saudi League is trying to match the level of the European League League, so we have to appreciate the Saudi League because they are trying to develop the game by apply their own competition and hope that one day they can be on the same level as them, it took a very long time for the Saudi League to become as famous as the European League and get the opportunity to play there, I even heard rumors that one of the Saudi League clubs, Al Nassr, got the opportunity to play there. Champions League, but this is still a matter of consideration and an agreement has not yet been reached. This will also cause injustice to other clubs in the Saudi League if only Al Nassr is invited there.

Source= invite Al Nassr to play in the UEFA Champions League

If we compare where those teams finished in every season, Al Ahli is surely one level above Al-Qadsiah. Al Ahli mostly finished the season in the top 3, they even became the champion several times. Also, Al Ahli never relegated to second tier league but Al-Qadsiah experienced it last season. So simply Al Ahli is much better than Al-Qadsiah, Al Ahli is one of the top teams in Saudi league. And if we compare their trophies, it is more visible that Al Ahli is not equal with Al-Qadsiah.

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Besides money, Nacho wants to play regularly. If he stays in Real Madrid, he must compete with other defenders for the same position. It will be harder due to his age, other defenders in Real Madrid also has a better quality. So, it makes sense if he leaves Real Madrid and joins Saudi league. In this league Nacho gets a lot of chance to play and he may become the captain in Al-Qadsiah.

The Saudi leagues are now competitive enough but not enough to qualify for the UEFA Champions League. The other teams in the Saudi League must compete with the bigger teams, which means they spend more money every season. The kind of competition we are seeing now in the Saudi League, if such or more competition is happening regularly, then surely some teams from this league will get a chance to play in the Champions League. When a team from the Saudi League plays in the Champions League, the popularity of this league will increase and this league will become as popular as a European league.

Your point is valid about football leagues not only aiming to be the best competition but also seeking worldwide recognition and glory. This is typically achieved through a grandiose plan that involves luring top players to the league and engineering more captivating competitions as part of a broader strategy.

At this point in time, the transfer market has been relatively quiet in terms of exciting news. It could be due to the fact that numerous clubs and players are holding off until Euro 2024 concludes. Following the event, there might be an influx of potential players up for transfer.

Concerning Mohamed Salah, his agreement with Liverpool will come to a close at the culmination of this season. This juncture stands as opportune for a league like the Saudi Pro League to consider weaving him into their fabric. A colossal transfer such as this has the propensity to hoist the league's standing and draw eyeballs from all corners of the globe, football fans worldwide.