Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 178. (Read 127957 times)

Yes, the Saudi Arabian League is quite famous at the moment, because the teams in it have a number of top players from Europe. However, if you look deeper, the majority of top European players who have joined the Saudi Arabian League are only quite old players. So if you look at these facts, in my opinion the Saudi Arabian League is not yet at a stage of great popularity. Because in essence, players from Europe are most likely interested in joining a Saudi Arabian League club simply because the salaries offered by clubs are quite large.

Likewise with Virgil Van Djik's problem, I think the answer is quite clear. Because if he chooses a big salary and money, then he will definitely move to Saudi Arabia. But if for example he chooses a career, then he will definitely stay at Liverpool. So now Virgil Van Dijk seems to prefer to stay at Liverpool, because of course he is still really needed there. Apart from that, it doesn't seem like Liverpool will let Virgil Van Dijk go to any club at this time.

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So, with this, Virgil Van Dijk certainly failed to be recruited by a team from Saudi Arabia.

Apart from that, if we compare Ronaldo and Virgil Van Dijk, it is certain that in terms of popularity or fame, the two are also different and in terms of age they are also clearly far apart. So if you think that Virgil Van Dijk will be easier to tempt with money than Ronaldo, I don't think that's right. Because we need to know that Virgil Van Dijk is still 32 years old, so he can definitely still be sought after by big clubs in Europe. Meanwhile, Ronaldo is quite old, apart from that when he left Manchester United, if I'm not mistaken at that time, none of the big teams from Europe were interested in signing him. That's why when an offer came from Al Nasr he accepted it. So basically the situation that befell Ronaldo and Virgil Van Dijk is clearly different.

No one knows about the future of Al Nassr just because they have great players at the moment, you can pay attention to Al Hilal they also have players who are no less great so regarding the future of the club no one knows who knows there are still clubs that are superior them next season if the club recruits some great European players who have good performance. Al Hilal, Al Ahli, Al Nassr and Al Ittihad will definitely make changes next season to compete in the Saudi Pro League competition and other domestic leagues and don't forget the AFC Champions League.

Actually I hope Al Nassr can win the title next season because as a Ronaldo fan I really look forward to my idol getting the title before he decides to retire, I feel sorry to see him and the club go home without winning a single title this season even though as a star player he became an important factor in the club's success. Hopefully Ronaldo's efforts next season will bear fruit. Al Nassr already has great players, not only Ronaldo, they must be able to make good use of him.

Saudi league is already popular with the number of players that joined last season so what more will a player joining will add. Van Djik is a a very talented player and also experienced and joining the league will be a massive boost to the league and the team he joins but the question is, is Liverpool ready to let Van Djik go?

They have lost Kloop already so if they lose Salah and Van Djik this season Liverpool may go back to being a normal average team in the league and challenging for the title maybe difficult.

Saudi teams are known for offering a lot of money to players and that way it will be difficult to turn down their offers especially when the player has limited time to play for.

There is truth in what you say that it is not easy to convince players to come and accept the offer from the Saudi team but this is not all because some players still care about the money and profits they get, in football anything can happen, especially when it comes to large amounts of money.
However, the reason why many European players come to the SPL cannot be denied that it is all about money and the benefits of existing collaborations, they are players who already have everything, various titles in Europe.
Look at how many great players have come, if they stayed maybe they could get all the prestigious European titles again but in reality they chose to leave, I think maybe they were satisfied and had enough of the various achievements in Europe.

Regarding Van Dijk,could get a huge salary if he went to the SPL , he is will also one of the players in the defender position who has the biggest salary.
Only certainty is to see to the end, how the transfer window closes and confirm what decision Van Dijk takes.

I see where you're coming from, but let's not forget that a league's quality isn't solely based on the age or stage of career players are at. The Saudi Pro League has made significant investments to boost its competitiveness, luring skillful players irrespective of their levels.

Consider this scenario: a few skillful young athletes choose to transition to alternative leagues like the Major League Soccer (MLS) or those situated in Asia. They do so with the aim of uncovering fresh prospects that not only benefit themselves but also contribute towards fostering the sport of football in their respective regions. Such an initiative clearly indicates that opting for a less prominent league does not equate to waving goodbye to one's playing days on the field forever. An act of choosing a smaller league is like flipping through the next chapter: it doesn't mean that the book has ended.

Van Dijk stands as one of the elite defenders globally; should his choice shift, it would stem from diverse personal and career-based rationales. Relocating to a different league can offer fresh challenges and varied prospects for individuals; let us acknowledge their decision with due respect, without hastily deeming it as an indicator of failure.

It is unlikely that Van Dijk will join the Saudi Professional League. Some situations have occurred as a result of the rumors around Van Djik.

- Al Nassr claimed to have spoken with Van Dijk's representative about his move to the Saudi Pro League team (al Nassr). So far, there has not been a confirmation from Van Dijk's side.
- Liverpool has claimed that they have not yet been approached by al Nassr.

Liverpool's claim makes sense. Van Dijk's contract expires June 30, 2025. It makes obvious that Liverpool should be the first party approached by Al Nassr. It is due to Van Dijk's release clause, which must be paid by the team that searched for Van Dijk's services.

I agree with you, I don't mean to belittle the Saudi Pro League, but we definitely see that when a player comes here, that player can be said to be at the end of his career, whereas for players who are still at the top level, they will still survive. in Europe to get competitive play. Virgin Van Dijk is one of the star players in his position.
However, if he decides to move then all decisions are in his own hands, we can only speculate what better steps he should take. In the end, they will also judge for themselves which is best for them, even though sometimes we don't agree with their decisions, we also have to respect that. Just like Mbappe some time ago who chose to stay at Paris Saint Germain, many people regret the decision he took. But again, these are all their decisions, so we have to respect them. Likewise with Virgil Van Dijk, we would be happier to see him stay at Liverpool, but if he wants to move, then that is completely his right.

Everyone's got the right to do what they want, right? If Van Dijk sees a big payday or a change of scenery in Saudi Arabia, thats his call. Nobody can criticize him for seeking to look after his family and himself. But we are discussing Virgil van Dijk here. The man is perfect. He's one of the best defenders in the world. For many years to come, he could perform at the top level in Europe.

SPL is not precisely the Champions League. Its a step down, no two ways about it. It would also be a great loss to have a player of his quality not challenging himself against the very best. Perhaps, though, he is seeking a different way of life and a fresh challenge. It is his life and his career. All Im saying is, I hope he understands what he is giving up.

The Saudi Pro League clubs seem to have a good relationship with Liverpool, that's why they are targeting Liverpool players again in this transfer window, maybe this has something to do with Gerrard who is currently coaching Al Ettifaq. Van Dijk is actually still really needed at Liverpool, especially after they appointed Arne Slot as the new manager, of course the manager will not let Van Dijk leave if management cannot find a suitable replacement.

Al Nassr has the ambition to win the Saudi Pro League trophy next season, they want to improve the depth of their squad, where one of their main weaknesses is the defense line. Van Dijk and Szczesny could be good signings, with the lure of high salaries and other luxurious facilities, these two players look like they could be brought in in this transfer window.

I think Al Nassr ambitions next season are very serious, and they will use all means to win trophies, including making fantastic transfers to smooth out these plans. Apart from that, Al Nassr actually needs a reliable playmaker in the midfield, to create more opportunities that Ronaldo can convert into goals.

It is not easy to convince players to play in the SPL even though they are offered a large salary, especially when they are not too old so their football career can still be much longer and players usually have the courage to leave Europe and explore outside the European league if they are older than 35 years old and decided to end his career and retire while this player is still 32 years old and Liverpool still relies heavily on him in the team. If he leaves then Liverpool will lose their best defender and it is quite difficult to find a new defender with the same quality because he has been around for quite a long time at Liverpool while also becoming a senior Liverpool player.
If the player is interested in the salary offer from the SPL club then Liverpool cannot force him to continue being in the team it will be his decision whether to stay or leave the team if he decides to leave Liverpool will also benefit from his sale but at the same time look for other options to replace him front next season

Van Dijk is Liverpool's main defender. Saudi League will be popular because of another top player like van Dijk. More players will join the Saudi league, as teams offer big salaries for them. Some of these players prefer to stay in Europe.

I think Benzema is beneficial for the the Al-Ittihad team . Al-Ittihad team lose the match in Saudi Pro league due to lose of Benzema. And other players did not play well and could only two goals . Al-Nassr team performance was outclass and they did four goals and from which Ronaldo did 2 goals . Ghareeb performance was also good and he did one goal on penalty ,Al-Nemer did goal at the time of 95 minutes. I think ,Al-Nassr team has bright future and they will get good position in any tournament. The shots of Al-Nassr team were 14 but shots of Al-Ittihad team were 8 and passes of Al-Nassr team were 582 . Al-Nassr team future is very bright and they will win the next tournament but the performance of Al-Ittihad team is very bad and their experienced players are out of form . If they will play good in future,then we can expect good from them.

If we compare it with Al Hilal, Al Nassr conceded half as many goals as its rivals throughout last season. Al Hilal conceded 23 goals, while Al Nassr conceded 42 goals. Al Nassr should be much stronger than Al Hilal, but apparently I can't just draw conclusions based on defenders who have played in the European League such as Laporte, Alex Telles. while the rest, several defenders who came from Saudi, did not contribute much for the team to be able to rely on it seems. Moreover, I don't know based on the data and statistics. while on the other line, Al Nassr has more competitive players. both for the midfielder line and the front line. So, there is a gap if we look at the depth of the Al Nassr squad. In the new season, at least Al Nassr will have to replace some of its defenders with more reliable players.

Like Al Hilal, they are not too focused on defenders who have played in Europe. However, at least the local defenders they have have skills that Jorge Jesus can rely on in defense. Al Nassr could do the same thing, they can do it anyway. Or, players who are not very competent can be released by Al Nassr. Thus, Al Nassr still has a quota to bring in defenders from the European League. They could also recruit more qualified local players to add strength to the defense sector. In the new season, there should be no reason for Al Nassr to win the League trophy and in several other competitions. However, it is also important how Luis Castro handles Al Nassr and fixes the weaknesses of his team's squad in the new season.

Virgil van Dijk is one of the best defenders that exist today so it can be said that Liverpool are very lucky to have him, but reportedly at this time Liverpool are starting to try to regenerate their squad by trying to bring in young players who are in the position of defenders, so that indeed van Dijk current position is no longer quite safe at Liverpool, a big offer came from Al Nassr and of course it is very worthy of being accepted by him as a player who is no longer young,  Reportedly, Al Nassr is ready to make Virgil van Dijk the defender who has the highest salary in the world later if he wants to play for Al Nassr.

Al Nassr has great ambitions to become the best team in the Arab League so it is not surprising that they continue to offer fanciful offers for star players they want to recruit, so far Al Nassr have been targeting Szczesny as their goalkeeper next season, as well as Virgil van Dijk at the moment who is indeed desperately needed to strengthen the Al Nassr defense next season.

Indeed, defense is the main problem for Al Nassr this season, they concede quite easily so they often get unsatisfactory results this season and this means they have to lag behind AL Hilal in the race for the title. Even though their front line is very productive, it must also be balanced with a defense that can perform well, so that it can be balanced when defending and attacking.

Because in my opinion when they have a really good defense, then they don't need to bother scoring lots of goals in every game. I mean when you don't concede, then just 1 goal will make a club win, but if the defense is weak when they concede 1 goal then they have to score 2 goals to win, and so on. And Al NAssr experienced that this season, where they had to feel something that made them have to create more in the matches they played.

Virgil Van Dijk's contract will end in 2025 next year. He is still 32 now, so I think that is the age that will be one of the reasons for Virgil Van Dijk to stay at Liverpool or stay in an elite European team. Moreover, as you said, Liverpool still really needs his abilities, so Liverpool will also look in that direction to be able to retain this tough defender.

There were concerns at the start of the season because Virgil Van Dijk was playing a little down, but as time went on he was able to return to his good form. In my opinion, Liverpool also have to consider it when they think about releasing Van Dijk, because bringing in a player who can fill the void in the back line is not easy, and currently I haven't seen anyone who can replace Van Dijk's role in Liverpool's defense. However, they are also with a new coach now, it could be that their new coach wants to bring in a new defender and release Van Dijk.

Al Nassr this season is quite productive because they and Al Hilal can be recognized as the teams with the most goals in Saudi Pro League and during this season Al Nassr has scores 100 goals total which these statistics is very fantastic and Ronaldo can appears as Al Nassr top scorer with 35 goals but these records seems to be useless because they have to ended this season only as the runner up and Ronaldo is very dissapoint with this situation because before his contract with Al Nassr ended he want to lifted up Saudi Pro League trophy and he says next season Al Nassr should do a lot of improvement to compete with Al Hilal and it's not easy to broke the domination of this team especially Al Hilal is still unbeated in Saudi Pro League

In my opinion one of Al Nassr weaknesses for this season is their defensive lines because from 34 matches Al Nassr was conceded 42 goals and these records is worse when compared to last season because last season Al Nassr conceded only 18 goals in 34 matches i think this caused why Al Nassr want to bought Van Dijk from Liverpool because Al Nassr want to improved their defensive lines with attempts to gets world class defenders and besides the defender Al Nassr also want to gets new goalkeeper because they weren't satisfied to the performance of Nawaf Al Aqidi and David Ospina

It not easy to convince Van Dijk to move  but money and the treatment that would be offered to him could entice, Yes , players not only want to stay where they like but also want to earn huge some amount of salaries and wages, If Ronaldo went to the Saudi pro league to play despite his achievements and his fame ,I believe other players can move and Van Dijk isn't an exceptional to that.

Yes, of course, but this also happened when it was previously reported about Ronaldo joining the Saudi team, there was lot of doubt and disbelief that Ronaldo would leave European competitions because even though he was getting older, Ronaldo would still be able to compete in European competitions.
Anything could happen and indeed there are several determining factors that make it less likely to change significantly to realize this uncertainty, I think Saudi football will indeed be place for star players in the future.
After all, in football everything can change over time, plus when players cannot get big achievements such as the various titles they want then of course the opportunity to leave will always be possible for us to see in the future.
But yes, I also agree that it is unlikely to happen in the near future or this summer, but what will happen in the future, no one knows and we can never guess correctly.

NO, saudi's main target to host world cup. Saudi has confirmed to host world cup 2034. That's the point why saudi was also recruiting ronaldo.



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Saudi has finally achieved it. So, the only task owned by saudi pro league is about how to make their league becomes sustain till world cup will be coming. Saudi has bought a lot of star players but they were not giving significant impact. The only ronaldo that was helped saudi pro league to push their popularity among all of football fans in the world.