Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 160. (Read 127775 times)

News about Al Hilal and the situation of Neymar is he is going to be back in the good form soon.
Since Neymar joined Al Hilal he played in only five games for Al Hilal while he lost the other games during this season and they spent too much money for hiring this Brazilian superstar player in Al Hilal.
Neymar was absent in the Austria camp and he stayed in Riyadh. Now it seems Neymar is going to back to the good form in Aguest and the chance for him to be on the list for the start of the season is high.
 

Situation currently is not clear about Ederson with Manchester City is still having talk with him about his future because they are keen to keep him for another season which could be good for Ederson because still he is just 30 years old, and they are not happy as he is leaving club for the Saudi League, so things will be clear in coming days because most chances we will have increased package for him from the cub management and coach Pepe Guardiola is also wanted Ederson stay here for some more time.

But no doubt if Al Nassr having Ederson in his squad things will be improved, and they could be having some good strength into their defense which was the biggest problem for them in last season where they fail to win any trophy and having many defeats against champions Al Hilal.

Things are still interesting because just few days back we have news about Stefano Pioli is going to be new coach of the Al Ittihad, but Karim Benzema was not happy, so management have another U-turn and now bring Laurent Blanc as their new coach which is looking good but star power working like this is not good sign for the league and club because they needed to be stick with better option.

There is no doubt this combo is going to be better for them in this season because after winning title in 2023 their performance at the end of the 2024 was bad and things were not well organized for them due to internal issues so having this option hopefully will bring success for them with they will be able to have challenging situation for the top clubs which dominate in last season and having still enough strength to stay at this level for the next season.

Al Ahli impressive performance in last season was due to good investment which was done by PIF which is owner of the four Saudi League clubs Al Hilal, Al Nassr, Al Ahli and Al Ittihad, and they are doing their best for having some good competitiveness in this league with these all clubs are again spending huge amount for the next season which will help them for having good results and improved performance with in this season we are having few newly promoted clubs which are also doing same thing as money is no problem for them, and they are able to have enough funds for the development of this League and their clubs which will make things interesting in coming years.

Now next season are coming in few weeks with all clubs are trying to have their targeted players which will make some good challenge around and players and coaches from the European countries are also coming which is surely having good development vision about this league is interesting, and they will do their best for staying at the top level.

Last season in the Saudi Pro League, Al Ittihad was poor with their performances which was why they couldn't keep up with the other strong performers in the league despite having a star-studded squad so signing an experienced manager like Laurent Blanc I think is the club management's way of making the club strong and competitive again. Despite having high profile players like former Balon D'or winner Karim Benzema, Al Ittihad wasn't convincing with their performances last season. The arrival of the former France international will bring renewed tactical strength to the team while improving their strength to compete with other top teams in the league. I believe in the tactical strength of Laurent Blanc which why I think he'll definitely succeed with Al Ittihad.

Being able to finish in third place in the Pro League standings is a big progress for Al-Ahli, which incidentally was a promoted team in the previous season. Unfortunately, Firmino did not appear very impressive as a finisher in his team's squad. which in the end was rotated as a playmaker for the rest of the competition, even though Firmino didn't actually play badly. Unfortunately, he was only able to score 9 goals, 6 assists in 32 total games. Maybe in this transfer window Al-Ahli will bring in some quite established players to deepen their team's squad, at least they will do it to compete closely with their rivals. especially if we refer to the points they collected, there is a big difference between the two clubs, namely Al Hilal and Al Nasarr. Basically, this club was acquired by the same company, namely PIF. So, they have sufficient finances to bring in top European players. It's just that so far we haven't heard much information regarding their steps in the transfer window, but it is very likely that Al-Ahli will bring in several European players that they are targeting. What is certain is that Al-Ahli needs several players who can be relied on, especially in terms of scoring goals. Thus, next season the competition will be even tighter.

I think one thing, right now Morata is doing a Great job with his Spanish team , if Atlético Wants to let him go, well they should, there's nothing stopping them, so I think that to make a move like this, Cholo has to have someone in mind, otherwise it would be crazy because he's basically one of the most senior and experienced players that he can have so far, if he goes to Saudi football , well, Saudi football will possibly receive a champion in every ense where whoever he is next to will make the difference, I don't see the Saudi League as a graveyard of players , like in the MLS , but as a way to play more Calmly and with more Money.

I have heard rumors that Ederson could move to the Saudi league and I have heard rumors that the Brazilian superstar will be the goalkeeper for as long as Pep Guardiola is in charge of Manchester City. When the transfer market opens we hear a lot of buzz but not all of the buzz is true. Ederson has been Manchester City's main goalkeeper for the last season and the season before that and his performances have been excellent so suddenly Manchester City may not be planning on another goalkeeper. From my footballing knowledge, if Ederson thinks he has achieved enough for Manchester City and should focus on money, then he can accept the offer he received from Saudi Arabia.

Al-ahli immediately showed extraordinary performance last season. Even though they were just promoted again last season. but they immediately competed fiercely with Al-hilal, Al-nassr and Al-ittihad. And I am sure that in the coming season Al-ahli will again show themselves as a strong club in the SPL. I don't follow many updates regarding the transfer market involving Al-ahli. But I am sure that because Al-ahli is one of the clubs owned by PIF, this club will definitely be quite active in buying European players again to strengthen their squad.

Being able to achieve success as a player does not guarantee that they will achieve the same success when they become coaches. Many great players end up not being able to do anything when they become coaches, and conversely many great coaches can be born from ordinary players. So everyone has different skills, maybe they can apply every strategy given by the coach very well, but they cannot create a good strategy that can be played by their students.
Actually, I was quite surprised by this, because previously it was Stefano Pioli who was often talked about becoming Al Ittihad's coach, some reports even said that he had reached a personal and verbal agreement, he just needed to wait for the time to be stated in the contract. However, after this news emerged, it seemed that something had not reached an agreement between the two, so they failed to bring in Stepano Pioli. Now that Laurent Blanc has been introduced by Al Ittihad, they will embark on a new season with a new coach.

Al-Ahli is team that managed to show an extraordinary and very significant increase in performance, they were relegated and promoted again last season until they succeeded in performing optimally in the competition which allowed them to occupy 3rd place in the standings.
They got 19 wins and only 7 defeats, this is clearly good start for Al-Ahli to continue to be able to compete well in the SPL competition, if improvement can continue to be shown then there is big possibility that Al-Ahli will be able to become one of the strong competitors in the future.
But looking at how busy Al-Ahli is during the season break and also for this summer transfer window, I don't find anything interesting that they will do, Al-Ahli should be able to make good use of everything and return to being able to bring in new players.
Moreover, their players who were previously linked to being the dominant players in Al-Ahli success were also reported to want to move because they experienced decline in performance and were only on the bench several times because their positions were replaced.
Roberto Firmino is player who reportedly wants to return to the Premier League and end his career in the SPL with Al-Ahli.

I think Laurent's arrival will be a breath of fresh air for Al Ittihad. Even though Laurent is a coach who is considered mediocre in terms of achievements, I am sure that Laurent will be a very suitable coach for Al Ittihad. Because Laurent is a coach from France, this will certainly make Benzema more comfortable at Al Ittihad. Maybe with a coach who has the same nationality as Benzema, his best performance will return. Because as we know, Benzema's performance at Al Ittihad this season is quite bad. I also don't know why Benzema's performance is that bad. However, according to news circulating, Benzema often has a bad relationship with his coach at Al Ittihad. Maybe because of that, his performance at Al Ittihad was less than optimal.
So with the arrival of Laurent as the new coach at Al Ittihad, it is hoped that Benzema can have good chemistry with the coach and can show his best performance. Not only Benzema, hopefully Kante and Fabinho can show their best performance when coached by Laurent next season.

Apart from that, I personally hope that Al Hilal does not become champion in the Saudi Arabian League, because I am very bored seeing Al Hilal continuously being champion in the Saudi Arabian League. I hope Al Nasr or Al Ittihad can become champions of the Saudi Arabian League next season. Even though it will definitely be a little difficult, I'm sure Al Nasr only needs to improve a few more things to become champions of the Saudi Arabian League (especially their defense line). Because if the defense can be improved properly, I am sure Al Nasr can definitely become champions of the Saudi Arabian League. Likewise with Al Ittihad, the key is just the chemistry between the players and the coach that must be improved. If it has been repaired, I am sure Al Ittihad also has the opportunity to become a champion candidate in the Saudi Arabian League.

Laurent Blanc's experience when he was still an active player cannot be doubted and with France he has even won the Euros and the World Cup. At club level, he has also won all the titles and he has also played for several big teams in Europe. However, his experience as a coach is not that good, but at least with PSG he always won so many titles in French competitions. The Champions League is not an easy thing for a coach like him and I think that is normal.

Apart from that, I think Al-Ittihad was quite right in choosing him as the new coach and I think he was very right in choosing to join Al-Ittihad. Previously, it was predicted that Stefano Pioli would become Al-Ittihad's coach, but it seems that a final agreement was not reached and therefore Al-Ittihad is lucky enough to still be able to get another European coach here.

Ederson to Al Nassr would definitely be a perfect addition for the team, they are looking to improve all sides and that would be great. I am not really aware of the "foreign players rule" that Saudi Arabia has, do they have any? Like are they forced to use any SA based players or anything, and if so then what is the number? Because by the looks of it, each team has some, and if they didn2t had any rules about it, I am pretty sure that they would all get foreign players that are better.

In any case, if Al Nassr decides to use one of their rights on Ederson, that would still be a great idea because it would make sure that they have a great goalkeeper, and they already have a good scorer, that's like half of the job done already.

Sterling is only 29 years old, he is not old, so if he decided to go to the Saudi league, he would at most have a 3-year contract in some big Saudi team, and when his contract ends, he would be 32 years old. age and I highly doubt that the Arabs would offer him a lot of money again because the Arabs would know that Sterling, at 32 years old and after playing for 3 years in the Saudi league, would no longer be able to be signed in a big team, being That way Sterling would have destroyed his entire career, he would have been forced to accept any low offer made by the Saudis. That's why in my opinion Sterling should stay at Chelsea, even if he faces difficulties, he would still be the best choice

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Laurent Blanc has already signed with Al Ittihad and was officially presented by the Al Ittihad club today



He didn't manage to win the European Champions League as coach of PSG in the 3 years he was coach of PSG, he also doesn't see great things coming from him as coach of Olympique Lyon, so I wouldn't create high expectations about how his performance will be. next season as coach of Al Ittihad, but at least the Arabs are making good choices when it comes to choosing coaches to improve the quality of the Saudi league. I hope that next season Al Hilal will be champions again

Having prediction about his carer is currently too early as things are going most chances he will be started thinking about his future after having final of Euro 2024 against England which is going to play on 14th July in Germany but as things are going most chances his career at the Atlético Madrid is already ended, and now he is looking for the new destination where he will do things for the future, and currently we are having two good options for him with first is AC Milan and second is Al Qadsiah which is newly promoted club here and looking for strong squad which give them good start and secure their future.

No doubt every player wants to play for the winning team with this now most chances if he is going AC Milan it is not surprised but if he has luxury offer from the Al Qadsiah this could be also considerable because as we have development in Saudi League teams are doing good work and having better things for their future, so this transfer is also looking possible.

Pioli is an experienced coach, his presence in the team is expected to bring a new change and certainly that change is a good one to look at. There will be a glimmer of hope when a presumably experienced coach joins a team, though we also can’t fully say they’ll actually deliver anything good. Challenges will always be there for any coach who joins a new team, especially in a different style of league play than he or she is used to. Whether or not we have to say that the Saudi Pro League is different from Serie A.

Sometimes luck will also always be expected to come, because not just once or twice we see many coaches fail in their first season, even ending in sacking. However when management tried to give coaches longer opportunities, in their second season they would show something even better. I wouldn’t expect much from the new coach, however at least they can show good development under their direction.

Here we can say money is working as all players are not had enough courage for going to play for the spirit of game and having things well challengeable for them in early days of their career with having first Gabri Veiga and now Moussa Diaby mean money is working and Saudi League organizers are able to attract skilled and new talented generation of Europe which is love to play in these difficult conditions for the sack of money.

With this is good transfer for the Al Ittihad as now they are heading for good season with having new Italian legendary coach Pioli and now this transfer mean things are favourable for them to have challenge for the top teams in this league for the next season this is second big lost for the Aston Villa which is also going to compete in Champions League for the next season and things are looking not ideal.

currently Al Nasr's goalkeeper is only filled with local players from Saudi Arabia. So, after it was rumored that Al Nasr would recruit Wojciech Szczesny from Juventus, it seems that Al Nasr failed to bring him in. That's why Al Nasr switched to targeting Ederson.
So if Ederson manages to be brought in by Al Nasr, it will definitely be very good. The reason is that currently Al Nasr does not have a main goalkeeper, because David Ospina as Al Nasr's main goalkeeper has now left. However, if you look at the contract that Ederson has with Manchester City, I have a little doubt that Ederson can be brought in by Al Nasr. The reason is, Al Nasr will certainly have to spend more money to redeem Ederson's contract at Manchester City. So it makes sense for Al Nasr to postpone its intention to bring in Ederson for next season. However, it is also possible that Ederson will actually join Al Nase in the transfer market this season. Because from several media that I read, Ederson is said to want to look for a new challenge.

Apart from that, Ederson is currently suffering from an injury so he will also have to miss playing for Brazil in the Copa America. Until now there has been no definite news regarding when Ederson will be able to return to playing. I thought the injury was not too serious, but after I investigated it turned out that Ederson had an injury around his eye. So with the injury he is currently experiencing, Ederson will definitely be thinking about his old age. For this reason, Ederson will definitely think a lot about the offer from Al Nasr. Because it cannot be denied that Al Nasr's offer has a very large nominal value.

Although Saint-Maximin chose Saudi Arabia at a young age, he is still in his prime and I can say that he definitely regrets going to the Saudi League. European Clubs don't look favorably on footballers who go to the Saudi League. Because they think that the players who go there are mentally retired. They are not wrong. Saint-Maximin surprised everyone by going to Saudi Arabia at a time when he had everything to prove.

If Saint-Maximin wants to get back to his old days and attract the attention of the European leagues, a transfer to Fenerbahce is the right address for him. Saint-Maximin will have the opportunity to work with Mourinho and his star could shine even brighter than before.