Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 137. (Read 119151 times)

It is difficult to understand what has really happened to Benzema so far at Al Ittihad, previously it was rumored that he did not feel at home in Saudi Arabia and tried to return to the European League, but now Al Ittihad is still continuing to keep him as a player who will enter the main line-up next season, Benzema performance and attitude this season at Al Ittihad is indeed not in accordance with the character of a professional player who left the team at the time the team needed him at that time, but the funny thing is that Al Ittihad seemed to prefer Benzema to be in the team and made Al Ittihad have to fire Marcelo Gallardo as coach due to a dispute between Benzema and Gallardo.

We can't say that Gallardo sacking is the reason for Al Ittihad poor performance this season, so I think the situation to choose between Benzema and Gallardo may come when the fight happens, although Gallardo has not been able to bring Al Ittihad to get better this season but I think his performance at Al Ittihad is quite good and he just needs a little bit of support from Al Ittihad to bring in some more quality players, Gallardo unilateral dismissal by Al Ittihad certainly made Al Ittihad have to pay $30 million in compensation and it seems that $30 million is the largest compensation received by the current coach.

Nacho has been ended his future speculation now and he has decide to choose Al Ittihad as his next club and Nacho has been said one of his main reason why he decide to leave Real Madrid is he has win everything in this team so that's why before his career ended Macho want to find new challenge and playing at Saudi Pro League seems very interesting for him because he said the development of this league is very rapid especially after several famous players playing at this competition and if this rumour is true then Nacho will be reunion with his team mate in Real Madrid Karim Benzema

Actually Real Madrid was offering new contract to him for 1 year even his team mate in Real Madrid Dani Carvajal has encouraging Nacho to stay longer at Real Madrid and sign a contract extension because Carvajal feel Nacho is still important for Real Madrid but unfortunately Nacho has decide to leave this summer however actually if Nacho want to stayed and choose European teams as his next club i think it won't be hard for him to gets new clubs because the clubs such as Villarreal and Inter Milan has showing their interest to him but he has decided to choose Al Ittihad as his next club and this has put an end to the speculation that he was going to MLS

No one can be blamed because Benzema is a player who is subject to the team and the coaching set by the team, so that when a coach is fired because of the team's declining performance or sentiment that suddenly arises within the team, of course the team management will make an evaluation of this before blaming just one person. So it would be very strange to think about Gallardo leaving team coaching because of Benzema because the players in a team are not just Benzema.

Just look at Ronaldo track record during his career in European team and in fact there have been several small conflicts due to differences of opinion or other things, but the most important thing is that everything only lasted short time because after that there was always good resolution.
And I also understand that every player will have conflicts with teammates, not just Ronaldo, so this kind of thing is very normal in my opinion.

Of course not my friend, I will not believe all the rumors circulating because they are just reports and there are lots of reports whose truth is not clear, I will believe the rumors when I myself have found clearer and proven certainty about the truth.
I also sure that Al Nassr will never easily let go of Mane because he is very important player, in fact Mane presence is able to replace other important attacking players when he is absent from the match.
And what is clear is that everything will definitely go well, whatever problems occur, they will definitely be able to resolve them more quickly, in the future Ronaldo and Mane will definitely remain teammates and play for Al Nassr.

This is why I believe people misunderstood it. People are constantly concentrating on Benzema without even taking a glance at his teammates. Last season, Benzema's teammates performed so poorly. I support his decision to abandon ittihad. The club isn't even looking to add more quality players.



If the Saudi club wants to see Benzema play as he did at Real Madrid, it is best to invite all of real madrid players to the club.

In the image above, Benzema has addressed the question about his performance. 
Benzema answer totally makes sense. 

Most teams in Saudi now have high standards players who have played or had an experience in Europe football but the only difference is that the number of such players in each team and the teams that have that has them more seem to be performing better than other teams. It’s sad to say that Al Ittihad and some of these teams still find it difficult to blend properly and not all European players have been able to settle, some are still struggling and yet to find themselves although i will say it’s the team they got signed to. Any player signed to Al Hilal or Al Nassr will definitely be at their best performance since the entire team is performing well. I’m still surprised how Al Hilal is still performing well in the absence of their best signing Neymar he was not so useful this season but they still managed to win the league.

Some players needs to to adapt to certain leagues, maybe it’s what Benzema needs who knows but I believe he will be better next season and Ittihad can be a title contender next season. They need to add more quality to the team not just in the midfield but in every position because that’s what other teams are doing.

If I may assume based on my point of view, Karim Benzema does not fit into their coaching style system. whether it's Nuno Santo, or Marcelo Gallardo. Apart from that, Benzema does not have an ideal partner to support him as a pure striker. In fact, the two coaches I mentioned often apply a system that is not the style and characteristics that Benzema played with Real Madrid previously. Another point, Al Ittihad is not as competitive as the other two elite teams, namely Al Nassr and Al Hilal. If indeed Al Ittihad wants to compete fiercely as an elite team in the Saudi Pro League, they need the services of other players who are worthy of being relied on, especially as players who support Karim Benzema. and this summer, there is no reason for Al Ittihad not to have a squad with the same depth as its two rivals. At the very least, they have players they can rely on to compete with other elite teams who have more competitive depth.

Referring to the Al Ittihad squad, they are more dominantly local than other teams that were acquired by PIF. or at least, like Al Hilal which has local players who really contribute and have quite good skills in the Saudi Pro League. such as Al Dawsari, and several other players. Well, regarding the news or rumors that Al Ittihad will retain Karim Benzema, we'll see what happens next. To be honest, I haven't looked for much up-to-date football information. However, as I said, Al Ittihad must be supported by players who are able to compete with their rivals in the race for the Saudi Pro League trophy in the new season.

Benzema do like shit in all his stance on Saudi Arabia, also he make a lot of drama and start a fight with his coach Gallardo, who ended up destryoing more the team than ever, the worst part is now the coach is out but still in charge because the team has to paid him 30 million dollars to cut out the contract, what a move.

If he have another bad season in the next one, who is gonna blame?

I don't know what is the main reason for Al Ittihad to keep Benzema in their squad or maybe it was done so that the team does not have to pay a large compensation if Al Ittihad makes a unilateral dismissal?
Currently Benzema has one season left with Al Ittihad so it may make Al Ittihad keep Benzema for the team next season although actually this season Benzema is not performing optimally with Al Ittihad, besides that Benzema is indeed rumored not to feel at home in Arabia, so he had run away from Al Ittihad training and skipped the matches played by Al Ittihad this season,  I think maybe Benzema will no longer want to play wholeheartedly for Al Ittihad next season because of the discomfort.

Keeping Benzema for another season is of course a good step taken by al ittihad in addition to preventing dismissal compensation money, of course at least currently al ittihad has a source of money from the sale of benzema jerseys, so that at least it can cover the costs incurred by al ittihad so far, keeping Benzema is the right step, but indeed they must also be able to bring in other strikers who they can indeed rely on next season, besides improving every line of the squad, so that they can compete for the trophy next season.

Every club will do everything to ensure they're having a smooth run. The performance and stats of the player was in question and there's a whole lot of things that have engulfed the standards. Perhaps he's consider to be important and have heightened his stellar contributions to his club, always up and ready to attain to top goals. Karim Benzema was actually a key player for his club in Europe and have also made good choices when it comes to selecting clubs.

Teams in Saudi Arabia, such as Al-Ittihad Al-Nassr, have very high-level and popular players playing in their country. They got efficiency from some of them, some of them couldn't even play at all. I'm talking about Neymar. I think they may want to keep Karim Benzema at the club just for prestige reasons.

If they strengthen their midfield and add better players to the team next season, they can get better performance from Benzema. Just imagine, the team with Benzema finishing fifth in the league is a single failure that should not be blamed on such a successful player.

Karim Benzema's performance in the Saudi League was not as good as they were expecting to see from this player and he totally failed to have the performance they wanted to see from this player. The Al Ittihad fans saw him playing very well in Real Madrid with a perfect performance there and they were expecting to see the same Benzema while he failed to have the same good performance there. Considering the money Al Ittihad paid, they could have a much better player.
That's why there were some rumors about Benzema leaving Al Ittihad but Al Ittihad recently said they will keep this French superstar player there.

Is Virgil van Dijk actually leaving Liverpool? I did hear something like that before but I was not sure about it if it was actually authentic news or not. But if he is actually leaving, I think he still has the ability to perform well by playing in a big club in the Europe leagues. so I do not know if he will be very keen on joining any club from the Saudi League. My personal opinion is that he is only 32 years old. He still has a lot of good performance left in him to give to his club. Joining Al Nassr might be a waste of his talent if he does that so early in his career. But if he is going for money, it is definitely a good decision for him. He is probably not going to get the level of money that Al Nassr is going to give him from anywhere else.  But I still highly doubt that he will go to Al Nassr so early in his career.

We are going to see plenty more transfers for sure. The system that Saudi clubs have is not really a bad one, just go for as many free agents as possible, and since they are also old, you are not going to pay them more than what it would have cost to pay a team, because these days getting a star player may cost starting from 50, and could go up a lot more than that too. Instead, they get free players and end up paying about 20-30 a year for 5 years, which costs a lot true but doesn't really cost more than buying a player and paying a bit lower salary.

I think they are going to go with this more, and it is going to make the league even better. Every year there are new old stars nearing their contract, and every year they get some of them.

The defence now is a mess. Simply said, a weak backline makes it impossible to win titles. VVD, now he's a game-changer. Most excellent defender on the planet, perhaps ever. Will he, nevertheless, travel to Saudi Arabia? Liverpool might be willing to sell, but it'll cost a fortune.

Instead of throwing money at superstars, Al-Nassr should focus on developing their own talent. Build from within. Put money into the young Saudis. That is how you build a dynasty that lasts, not simply a passing fancy.

Haha that's a personal assumption while I'm not too sure about that reason, currently he is focused on playing with the national team and maybe after Euro 2024 he will make a decision whether to continue his career in Europa or leave Europa League. Apart from that, currently Lewandowski is also prone to injury so elite clubs are not interested in bringing him in except that teams from the Saudi Pro League might be interested because they have a different mission.

Currently Lewandowski market value is 15 million and I think the Saudi Pro League teams are not hampered by money, they always offer the highest. By the way, Lewandowski's contract will end next season, does that mean fans in this league will have to wait another year

Yes, but this is normal for the SPL, even other big leagues initially did the same thing as League 1, which has recruited several star players such as Neymar, Messi, etc.
The SPL did something similar in the hope of attracting great interest in football in Saudi Arabia and spending large amounts of money was not a problem because this had to be done for the future of the league which could become bigger and give confidence to European players not to assume trivial SPL.

Talking about Lewandowski between yes and no to join an SPL club because sometimes restrictions force a player not to want to join an SPL club, for example Lewandowski has a different religion and wants a big salary and also freedom, so maybe Lewandowski will prefer the offer from other leagues such as MLS, even though the offer was not as big as that given by the SPL, Lewandowski chose to have freedom in MLS.

Actually, all leagues are not easy leagues for a player, it might look easy if we talk about clubs, like Ligue 1 with Paris Saint Germain for example, but for an individual it is not something easy at all. We can see that several previous players could be said to have failed when they were in easy leagues, that's if we look at them as individuals.

But for me, Ronaldo has been able to prove that he can play well at every club he plays for. At SPorting, which was his youth club, he played so well that he was seen by Manchester United and became a mainstay player at Manchester United, after that he went to Spain to play for Real Madrid, his achievements were extraordinary. He went to Italy to join Juventus, there he played well until he returned to Manchester United and was a little "unappreciated" there. Then he joined Al Nassr, making big contributions too.

When Cristiano Ronaldo joined the Saudi League from Europe, we predicted that he would reign alone in the Saudi League with the highest number of goals to his name. But the reality showed us something different, after Ronaldo left, we realized that Saudi league competitions are not that easy and here Ronaldo has to work a lot to score a goal. If only one team was strong then maybe Ronaldo would have scored more goals but every team like Ronaldo's team is very strong and for them the competition is so tough. Every team in the Saudi League buys players from European clubs at high prices every season because the teams are so strong. With the new transfer market open we will see a significant number of players joining the Saudi league from European clubs in this transfer market.

Clubs in Saudi can only rely on money to attract the interest of players in Europe to want to move there, because all the clubs in Saudi are trying to make the League in Saudi more noticed so that older players Clubs in Saudi are also still buying them as long as the player still wants to play football while enjoying his career before retirement arrives. And for Lewandowski himself, maybe one day he will also move to Saudi if he still really wants money before he really retires from the world of football.