Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 181. (Read 111886 times)

It's not easy to adapt to a different league and it also doesn't take a short time, not all star players from the European leagues can do the same thing in the Saudi Pro League as they did in the European leagues if the player is not able to develop well at his new club. he will feel pressure and discomfort, which will make the player feel uncomfortable and want to return to his original league which will allow him to adapt well. If Karim Benzema returns to the European league, this is not necessarily a guarantee that Karim Benzema will be able to return to his best performance because of the age factor. very influential on his performance this season.

Karim Benzema is currently 36 years old, so it's only natural that his performance isn't as strong as it used to be, let alone creating a lot of goals, there isn't much that this senior player can expect, after all, returning to his home country, will a League 1 club be willing to pay a fairly large salary to him Karim Benzema except PSG?? because only PSG is the richest club in league 1 and maybe only PSG is able to recruit Karim Benzema from Ittihad, but the question is if PSG has paid a lot of money for this player, will he really be able to really prove his abilities like when he was at Real Maddid. Even though PSG has several star players PSG was unable to achieve the Champions League title, but as far as I know, PSG currently needs a striker to replace Mbappe maybe Karim Benzema could be PSG's choice..

Since we are getting closer to the end of this season, there is more news about some players joining the Arabian teams. Some players like Salah were already linked to these teams but this time they sent another offer for Lewandowski.
Robert Lewandowski was linked to the Saudi team during the last summer and they wanted to hire this player but he decided to stay in Barcelona and keep playing in La Liga instead of taking the huge money he could earn in the Saudi League.
We definitely know Saudis could give him much more money than he could even earn in Barcelona and since he is getting old, maybe any player could choose to play for the Saudis at this age.
But it seems Lewandowski rejected another offer and this time we are talking about 100 million euros per year for Lewandowski but he said no thanks.

You're right. De Bruyne still has a big role for Man City squad, Guardiola must try to keep him. I am sure Guardiola feels that losing Gundogan brings a significant impact to the squad, it will be worse if Man City must lose De Bruyne as well. I don't see a problem with his age 32, I think he still can play at his best form until 35-36 years old. So, De Bruyne can stay in Man City for the next 2-3 years.

Tell me which Man City midfielder who can replace the role of De Bruyne?
Rodri, Kovacic, or Bernardo Silva can't replace his role because there players have a different play style. I think it is not so much if we say Man City can't survive at their best form without De Bruyne. They already experienced it, Man City attacking looks weaker when De Bruyne got injured for few months.

The SPL is difficult for these new players; they are unable to perform at their best right now and are unable to comprehend essential top runs in the system. I've seen huge celebrities move to Saudi Arabia, and the most of them have made it out alive, while some keep on struggling. In accordance with records, the SPL will not settle for anything less than the most talented European players. Karim Benzema's form has decreased as he gets older; he is unable to position himself and score goals, and he makes several mistakes on the field.

Al Ittihad are unlikely to get what they want from Benzema, even if they keep the former Real Madrid man until the end of his contract. I agree, it doesn't look like Benzema will return to Europe, the main obstacle is his large salary. Clubs in the European League are certainly more willing to invest in younger players, although Benzema has proven abilities. In the January transfer window, Benzema was linked with Manchester United, Chelsea and Lyon, but this never happened.

But to which team? I mean Benzema is old, and hasn't really shown any greatness in the last 2 seasons, just because he won Ballon D'or a year before that, doesn't mean that he is still great. Last year at Real he wasn't great and so far he hasn't been playing much this season neither, all of which means that he is not that great.

I believe that European teams would want him only if they are a small club, maybe some smaller French team may want him, not just for his talent, which he might be good for a team that level but also for jersey sales. How many mid table team could get a player after they won Ballon D'or, that should be the most important part. All in all I think it will be quite good for them to hire a player like that, but if only he is cheap.

The switch to any club in some situations is a decision to be made by the player. Benzema has had quite an eventful time with Madrid. He impacted the team in his own special level of performance. Definitely he's got to get for himself widespread experience. In this case, he's got to consider a number of factors and they are technically a determinant of how effective their new move decision would be for them. An EPL club move won't be a bad option for Benzema to pick even though the league is very much competitive, adding that he's advancing gradually in age and so he's got a few impacts that he can make before retirement.

 Also, considering the fact that new signings and putting the team in a dilemma of evicting and retaining one out of two options. When the situation happened with Ronaldo, it was said that it's cos of his influence, money and capacity. Now it's Benzema's turn, what will be said. For me I'd blame Saudi league because the teams are trying all their possible best to be recognized. Al-Nassr before Ronaldo joined weren't heard about. All of a sudden, they're talked about occasionally. It's rumoured that the league wants to secure a spot in the UEFA champions league and they shouldn't be blamed for doing all it takes to make meaning.

 They'd rather do away with those that doesn't really matter and retain those that actually do matter. It's kind of life's lifestyle. No doubt every team there, if in that situation will do the same as Al Nassr had done or even worse. It's all for a purpose. I don't know but likely in the coming months, we should expect to see more of these occurrences. Benzema in Al ittihad is definitely not a bad move still, he's a key striking impact and I believe the Saudi league of all leagues won't be a wrong retirement option for him too. He's bound to hit two targets at thesame time with the team.

It is very difficult to see a striker of Benzema's age still playing and making a big contribution to the team. It must be admitted that performance has declined, we cannot deny that competition in the Saudi League is not as tight as European leagues.
Benzema is on a long-term contract with his club, it is possible that if the club wants to sell him of course they will not make a profit. However, it is a risk for clubs to contract players with old age but for a long duration.
I wouldn't say it's a detrimental contract. but maybe Benzema hasn't given his best for his club.

When Benzema was arrived from Real Madrid to Al Ittihad his status as star player and many fans of Al Ittihad have high expectations of him especially during playing with Real Madrid he was so often to became an Real Madrid top scorer for almost every season so it's normal if the fans thought Benzema will scores plenty of goals with Al Ittihad but unfortunately after through an 17 matches with Al Ittihad Benzema looks difficult to adapt with Saudi Pro League atmosphere and until today Benzema only able to scores 9 goals in Saudi Pro League and even Abderrazak Hamdallah goals records is much better compared to him because Hamdallah can scores 17 goals from 19 matches

Benzema almost be give up so that's why this January he was asking to his agent to look for new clubs and probably return to play at Europa even at that time Benzema not included in Al Ittihad squad for some matches and fortunately Benzema have change his mind now and he will attempts to stayed at Al Ittihad at least until this season ended but this summer i think most likely Benzema will leave Al Ittihad and look for new clubs and actually some of clubs still interested want to using his service and one of them is Lyon

Karim Benzema is almost 36 years old and his last season at the Real Madrid full of injuries, so things were never been as the same level while he was in his best which create problems for him and Al Ittihad as well but still club was generous to give him huge contract and big amount as salary but sadly his wrong tactics been never help his team for having better results which are not eliminated from the AFC Champions League, and now they have no chances for the staying at the top two spots as well which is surely not idea end of them, but this creates huge mess-up for the player as well because now his reputation is also down.

But, as we know his contract is going to end 2026 so most chances we will have possible solution for both sides with most chances we will have transfer with no big club is looking for him but as rumours are coming Lyon could be happy but this all will be clear after the end of this season with Al Ittihad will allow for this possible transfer, or we will have some more drama in this all.

Saudi pro league will begin soon and there will be some interesting matches to come. I was mentioning two matches and these matches are

Al ahli vs al ettifaq

I'm expecting Al Ahli to win against Al Etifaq with a narrow score. It's because Etifaq has never shown improvement since Gerrard took him as a new coach. Al Ahli's odds are very good considering that it's a weak club like Etifaq. There's no need to worry about that since Al Ahli will be able to beat Al Etifaq.
I don't really care about the score as I'm very optimistic that if I must pick 1x2, Al Ahli will win for sure. It gives me Ez win in the upcoming game, considering the fact that ettifaq is now on the same level as Al Ahli.

Al ittihad vs al feyha

It's obvious that if i will pick al ittihad to win this game. Even though Benzema may not be able to play, I'm very optimistic al Ittihad will be able to beat Al Feyha. The score doesn't matter for me but im sure it will beat al feyha with pretty good scores.

Both of the matches have been offering good odds to win the competition. It's quite easy matches to predict. Picking al ittihad and al ahli are gonna give us easy profit.

If possible I would prefer Benzema to return to Europe and I think there he would still be more comfortable than in the Saudi league. But there is one thing that will create bad sentiment towards the Saudi League if that happens and perhaps in the future the Saudi League will not be a suitable home for footballers from Europe. Such a summary could be made by the media and the Saudi league would again suffer losses.

Maybe even if Benzema's performance is not so promising even though he has trained again, what is important in my opinion is that Al-Ittihad can keep him until his contract ends. Because I'm pretty sure there are other profitable agreements despite his declining performance and that could at least be a replacement for his failure with Al-Ittihad.

Since the beginning of his arrival at Al Ittihad, Benzema has continued to create controversy by running away from matches and training of the Al Ittihad squad, and even now I do not see Benzema as a player who deserves to be retained by Al Ittihad next season, paid quite handsomely since being recruited from Madrid, Benzema continues to cause problems that indeed make his prestige as a star player tarnished, and even his declining performance of course he no better than the local players currently underpaid by Al Ittihad.

Getting a salary of almost 200 million euros per year certainly makes Benzema one of the players with the most expensive salary in the world and even the salary is almost the same as Ronaldo gets at Al Nassar at this time but of course both have different contributions for their respective clubs, now it is better for Al Ittihad to remove Benzema from the team and let him go where he likes,  because after all, Al Ittihad will only loses if they continue to retain players who are not professional like benzema , since signing for Al Ittihad, Benzema has only played 17 matches and just who scored 9 goals and his achievements are worse than Hamdallah who played 19 matches but has scored 17 goals with Al Ittihad so far even though he  has a lower salary than Benzema.

There are few rumours about De Bruyne which are surely creating some feud, but currently things are well under control for the Manchester City because his contract is going to be ended after end of the 2025, and then he could be over 33, so this could be possibility but if he wants to play here in these conditions with in this season as we have new most chances Saudi League is not going to have any big signings, so things are just for the masala or media hype even most chances Manchester City will be tried their best for extended his contract but currently nothing is clear as what is going to happen regarding this.

He is key player for the Citizens and pepe will try his best to convey him for staying more, but it's all depend on him and his vision about his future even most chances he will be not tried to go outside this region because things have never been easy for the playing into these conditions where many players are fail to give their best.

It's still remain unclear whether Benzema will be able to perform as well as he did when he played for Real Madrid because this time is totally different for him compared to when he still played at barcelona, people never ever decrease their expectations of him by keep try to imagine him to perform as good as his prime time in real madrid. It's the result of things turning 180 degrees in his favor, yet people didn't even try to realize it. The fact that benzema totally requires strong support from his team while still in conflict with Al Ittihad which is also making his chemistry with club has been weakening. So don't expect Benzema to return to his best form because he's having a lot of problems at the club which is also affects his performance and it matters a lot.

The environment in al Ittihad does not encourage him to play properly. It means that people have unrealistic expectations, such as when he played for Real Madrid. It's completely different when the club plays in Ittihad and Madrid. There are many great players who genuinely support him in real madrid like modric and vini and that's very different when it comes to the ittihad.
People shall move on and think realistically based on the current situation around him. Numerous factors greatly affected his performance in the club. It sounds stupid to expect Benzema back to his best form in the real Madrid.

Why don't people imagine if bnzema plays for real madrid again? it will make more sense rather than thinking of him to play as good as when he was at real madrid.

Benzema's performance which did not meet expectations was quite surprising because his experience playing at a big club like Real Madrid certainly makes him rich in experience so he will not have difficulty adapting, especially since he plays in a league where the competition is easier than Laliga, where he does not face defenders whose quality is the same as in Laliga so it will make it easier for him to score goals for Ittihad FC, but after months he still shows difficulty adapting and does not provide the contribution needed by his club so that criticism is directed at him.

Benzema leaving Ittihad FC is very possible even though there are no rumors about which club he will play for next because it doesn't look like he will retire from football soon, maybe to Ligue 1 to play for his home club like Sergio Ramos did after no longer being at PSG, but if another club in the Saudi Pro League makes an offer, I think he will stay in the Saudi Pro League because he will get a bigger payout than moving to Ligue 1.

Yes, it is true that Benzema was not able to play at his best with Al-Ittihad according to everyone expectations, but actually he was not that bad because he still made quite big contribution to Al-Ittihad while playing there.
At least Benzema is still much better than Neymar who did not contribute anything to the team he was playing for, this is an example that even though Benzema is considered bad, there are still things that are much worse.
If there is good communication and the right training pattern and there is adequate support from the team then this can have big influence on Benzema success as great player, he will become very sharp striker if all of this can be fulfilled properly.
Maybe Al Ittihad will still give him chance next season, if Benzema can play well I think he will be retained and the possibility of returning to Europe could be very small.

Maybe because Karim Benzema has not been able to adapt well so his performance has not been fully optimal, players who do not have good chemistry between other players or their coaches find it difficult to develop into great players. Even though Karim Benzema is a good striker that Real Madrid has but when he Al Ittihad Karim Benzema is not very productive and in fact the club is experiencing a decline, I don't know what is wrong, but what Al Ittihad needs to improve is the chemistry between Karim Benzema and other players and also the coach so that this can make their performance optimal and able to work together well. to bring Al Ittihad back to success.

Even if Karim Benzema really wants to return to the European League, who will accommodate Karim Benzema to the club even though he is currently old and Karim Benzema's salary is very large, so the club that wants to accommodate him must think hard about his salary and buy Karim Benzema to Al Ittihad or just a loan option. It seems that many European players have difficulty adapting to the Saudi League, so they really want to leave the Saudi League even though they are relatively new to the Saudi League competition.

Benzema seems to have to leave Al Ittihad. The reason is, Benzema's poor performance and current situation is not caused by normal factors, such as the need for adaptation or other things. However, Benzema doesn't seem to be suitable for Al Ittihad. Because from the start Benzema joined Al Ittihad, I personally also initially expected something satisfactory from Benzema. Then at the start of the season Benzema did not perform well at Al Ittihad. But at that time I was still thinking positively and I thought Benzema needed to adapt at Al Ittihad. Then a few weeks later it was reported that Benzema had a bad relationship with his coach at Al Ittihad, and in my opinion at that time it was the Al Ittihad coach who was at fault. So when the Al Ittihad coach is replaced, I think Benzema will find his best game again.

However, it turns out that even though the Al Ittihad coach was replaced, Benzema still performed poorly. Apart from that, Benzema is also reported to have a bad relationship with the new coach at Al Ittihad. So now I have a clear conclusion, Al Ittihad or the coach cannot be blamed, because Benzema has not performed well this season. But in essence, Benzema's poor performance was caused by Benzema himself. Basically, this may be because Benzema is no longer young. Or it could also be caused by compulsion. This means that when Benzema was first offered a contract by Al Ittihad, perhaps at that time Benzema was not too interested in joining. However, because the salary offered by Al Ittihad was very large, Benzema was willing to accept the contract. So in essence, Benzema is just after his money, and in terms of his performance on the pitch, he would probably make him number two.

So even though Benzema has now started training again with his colleagues at Al Ittihad, I think it will end the same, namely that Benzema's performance will most likely be less than satisfactory. And my prediction is that Benzema will most likely resign or leave Al Ittihad after this season ends.

This season Benzema failed to live up to expectations, he failed to show his best performance with Al Ittihad. It must be admitted, many fans are disappointed with the performance of the former Real Madrid player, it seems like Al Ittihad investment has failed miserably this season. Even though he has returned to active training, it is not certain that Benzema performance will return to sharpness on the front lines. Previously, it was rumored that Benzema would return to play in Europe, because his relationship with the coach was not harmonious.