Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 196. (Read 119349 times)

European players did not have the slightest knowledge about that league, but money solves every problem, my friend. They solved this problem with money, and European players competed to play in the Saudi Arabian league, even though they were completely opposite cultures. Of course, it was Cristiano Ronaldo who opened this door. Thanks to him, the league improved.

How long will it take for all Nassr to find someone like Ronaldo, who is frequently seen carrying the club in any games since the early season? Ronaldo has emerged as al Nassr's most important player and it's impossible to find someone who will able to have the same skill like him, it may take years for the club to find someone who can contribute as much as he does but it must be a big star like mbappe probably. The team has evolved since Ronaldo joined the club which is amazing and al nassr was struggling at the middle of season but it can perform very well. It will be extremely difficult for the club to find his replacement and i strongly believe that al nassr will not find any.
Who the hell is the superstar who was willing to participate in the al Nassr? Despite his advanced age, Ronaldo has continued to perform admirably. Even though Al Nassr will go trophyless this season, Ronaldo has been doing what he can. It's difficult to find a skilled player like him willing to play for the club. I think that la nassr must have prepared alternative plan once ronaldo will retire in the future.
I have seen some people were confirming that how ronaldo will retire from football at the early 2027. It means that if he will no longer play for the suadi club.
The hype may be gone with him that will decide to retire after next world cup.

There is no doubt this is funny, but I believe you also understand history of the Neymar Jr as he is injury prone player and never been effective for the PSG with have some good performance in Barcelona which is long ago so he is not contributor it's okay but still Al Hilal is having one of the best squad in Saudi League with coach Jesus is also doing good job and the strategy helping them for having record-breaking performance.

There defense and attack is having the best players with Metrovic is giving his lifetime performance 23 goals are surely amazing Brazilian Malcom is also helping and Saudi Al Dawsari also having 13 goals which are giving all how they are having competitive players and things are also well under control from the start of this season which is now helping them for having all four cups in this season with new world record as well but still now it's time for them to keep things at the better level because they can stay undefeated for many more matches in this season.

Of course that won't happen because currently the Saudi League is on the rise because Cristiano Ronaldo is in the Saudi League so European League fans know that right and the Saudi League is in the spotlight of many media. The main reason Al Nassr recruited Ronaldo is not only about popularity but also skill. Ronaldo is still good to this day so Al Nassr doesn't want to let go of his flagship player just because Ronaldo has the highest salary at the club, this is proportional to his quality which is no joke. Everyone knows what superstar Ronaldo's performance has been like so far, letting him go would be a loss for Al Nassr, apart from losing the goalscoring machine, Al Nassr also lost its popularity over time.

Cristiano Ronaldo wants to achieve something brilliant before he decides to leave the club. He wants to complete his trophy by getting a title in the Saudi League which he has never experienced before. I think there are still plenty of good local players to recruit and you don't have to buy players from Europe, especially the Saudi League. There is a rule to buy no more European players than local players, so it is better to develop players from your own league rather than having to take them from foreign leagues which are quite expensive.

It cannot be denied that Ronaldo has a high salary at Al Nasr. But if, for example, Al Nasr releases Ronaldo, I'm sure the Saudi Arabian League will be devoid of fans and will be like before. Because, don't forget, the reason so many European players play in the Saudi Arabian League started with Ronaldo's arrival at Al Nasr. So in my opinion releasing Ronaldo is not the right choice for Al Nasr. Although currently Al Nasr needs more money to find a good defender. However, in my opinion, there are still many ways to overcome the problems currently facing Al Nasr (regarding weaknesses in the back line). One solution is to look for local players who have good quality and skills. Because the proof is that Al Hilal also has many strong defensive players who come from Saudi Arabia. So Al Nasr can also do the same thing as Al Hilal, if they don't want to spend even more money next season. And if Al Nasr chooses that option, I'm sure Al Nasr definitely doesn't need to let go of Ronaldo, but still has a better defender.

Apart from that, Ronaldo also seems to intend to retire at Al Nasr. Because in the news I read, Ronaldo reportedly wants to play at Al Nasr until 2027.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/sport.detik.com/sepakbola/bola-dunia/d-6974763/cristiano-ronaldo-mau-main-di-al-nassr-lebih-lama/amp

So with this statement, it is clear that Ronaldo wants to end his career as a footballer at Al Nasr. So Ronaldo will certainly not be let go by Al Nasr.

It makes perfect sense to invest and make your child play. He wants to leave a legacy and still make money by making bets and investments throughout Arabia. For me it is a vision of the future and no longer of the player.

The thing between Ronaldo and Al Nassr is even more than this. Al Nassr know they hire some players because of Ronaldo and if Ronaldo leaves Al Nassr maybe they will have problems with hiring more top-level players. Also, Ronalod wants to achieve something he is in Al Nassr and that's why he won't leave soon.
Also, it seems Ronaldo is going to make some investment in Al Nassr, and even his son is playing there, which can show Ronaldo is going to stay and there and even there's a high chance to him to get retire in Al Nassr.

You can’t overlook the fact that Al-Hilal in one way or the other are looking unstoppable in the Saudi League as they’re having a wonderful season after being crowned with the trophy of Kings of Saudi Cup. The club are looking way anove every other in the league and the chances of them winning the league is very high.
 
 ⁠They remain unbeaten and they’re also in a chase for the quadruple which they’re in the semi final stage of both remaining competitions and the chances of them winning is quite high. After they’ve been able to defeat top teams like Al-Nassr and defending champions, Al-Ittihad, you can say this Al-Hilal team is really a fierce one. ⁠For their semi final match with Al-Ain the team that defeated Ronaldo and his teammates, this will be the AFC Champions League. Al-Hilal can be able to defeat them though this team shouldn’t be underrated as they could pose surprises.

 ⁠Al-Ain will sure be a big test for Al-Hilal’s determination level but I have high hopes that Al-Hilal will be able to go through. Their major issue could be being able to go past Al-Nassr in the final of the Saudi Super Cup as that could be a major challenge because Ronaldo will want to at least get his hands on a trophy this season.

Al Nassr will have to let go of Ronaldo before they can recruit more Europe experienced players while paying them high wages. The influence of Ronaldo will make any player coming to Al Nassr to start demanding high salary because they can not be playing for only Ronaldo to be benefitting with high pay. Al Nassr need to work on their defense because they are conceding too many goals for a top club. They do not have any problems with scoring but their defence is not very solid. Al Nassr needs to buy winger too, they do not have to be Europe players but they should be skillful players that can score and supplying the strikers with balls to score too. Al Nassr has already lost this season title because Al Hilal would not let any team to pass them and take the title from them. Al Nassr not starting the season well has caused them the title this season.

It sounds very funny, but the reality is that Al Hilal has managed to win the title without the help of Neymar, the world's top player who has been contracted to support the Al Hilal squad this season.
And this is also the first time Neymar has won the title in Saudi Arabia because previously Neymar was a member of a European players club. Apart from that, Al Hilal and friends will try to challenge Al Ain in the semifinal final at LCA with the aim of trying to get rid of Cristiano Ronaldo and friends at LCA this season, after Al Hilal has succeeded in getting rid of Al Ittihad who are the same representatives from Saudi Arabian league but now is the time for Al Hilal to prove that they are also able to get rid of Al Nassr which is supported by the world famous player, namely Cristiano Ronaldo.
Well, even though Al Hilal and Al Ain previously met each other in competition in 2023, this year they will meet again and whoever will be the champion will definitely be the best and undefeated.

Yes, with its current good performance, Al Hilal can definitely beat Al Ahli easily. The reason is that if you look at the head to head record of the two teams from their last 5 meetings, the result is that Al Ahli have never won against Al Hilal. So with this head to head record, we can clearly judge that Al Hilal is indeed no match for Al Ahli at the moment. Therefore, in this match I am 80 percent very sure that Al Hilal will definitely win the match and take home the full 3 points.

Then for the Al Nasr match against Al Feiha, I think this match will also be very easy for Al Nasr. The reason is, so far Al Nasr has never lost to Al Feiha in their last 5 meetings. So in this match Al Nasr also has a very big chance of bringing home the full 3 points.

And for the match between Al Hazm and Al Ittihad, I personally cannot say that Al Ittihad will win easily against Al Hazm. Because as we know, Al Ittihad's current performance is not optimal, so I am a little doubtful if I have to say that Al Ittihad will win easily against Al Hazm. The reason is that in the previous meeting, Al Ittihad was only able to achieve a draw against Al Hazm. But even so, if you look at the ranking between Al Ittihad and Al Hazm and the current head to head, Al Ittihad does have a greater chance of winning than Al Hazm. But I'm a little doubtful about that

So in this match, I personally will only bet on the Al Hilal VS Al Ahli match and the match between Al Nasr VS Al Feiha. And for the match between Al Ittihad VS Al Hazm, I'm still a little confused about which team to bet on.

But for what reason would you consider this game "crucial"?

SPL is over at this point when it comes to the title. Al-Hilal's defense won it. Al-Nassr is scoring a lot of goals although Al-Hilal has even done a better job there, but the defense made all the difference.

It's kind of funny that Al-Hilal has one of the most expensive players (Neymar) who doesn't play and yet they win the title easily whereas Al-Nassr has by far the best goal scorer and they have no chance whatsoever to win the title. Did those investments really pay off?

And I think that next season even other ordinary clubs that are not under the auspices of PIF will also start to make more thorough preparations. Such as by bringing in the best coaches from Europe or even competing to get the best players from Europe as is done by the clubs under the PIF.

And all of this will definitely make the competition in the SPL even hotter. but yeah it would be very boring if Al-hilal remained undefeated. Al-hilal's dominance in winning the SPL title is no longer strange. but everyone except Al-Hilal fans definitely wants different results next season. Last season Al-ittihad managed to become champions and made the SPL a little different. but I hope that next season the other teams will also be more competitive. And actually this season, things are starting to get better than last season. And maybe next season will be even better.

Regarding Al Hilal's performance, there is no doubt that Al Hilal is still unbeatable to date, even facing strong rivals in the Saudi league such as Al Nassr and Al Ittihad, Al Hilal has been able to beat them in every meeting between the two in all competitions, not only in the Saudi Pro League. So facing Al Ahli is not too tough an opponent for Al Hilal even though in terms of squad Al Ahli also has good players but no one can beat Al Hilal's performance. What is clear is that all Al Hilal players this season have very high solidarity and they play optimally with full motivation to be able to win many trophies in the Saudi League, not only aiming for the Saudi Pro League trophy but also aiming for other trophies.

But before meeting Al Ahli, Al Hilal had to play a semi-final match against Al Ain, the club that eliminated Al Nassr in the quarter-finals, which means Al Hilal had to be careful when facing Al Ain. With his performance which was able to beat Al Nassr, I think he would become the club which makes it difficult for Al Hilal but with my belief, I prefer to make Al Hilal the favorite in all competitions to continue to win.

Neymar was never ever providing any support. The fact that if he is sitting on the bench and did nothing. He was only sitting and receive the reward from his team that won the competition. It was very weird to see how neymar did nothing and he got a medal from saudi cup.
This is why the management of al hilal is getting upset to him. I strongly agree if management to let him go away to join on his old club. I have heard that if neymar will leave from there at the end of season. This rumor has not yet confirmed but seeing how al hilal is not even interesting to defend him and he will leave soon.
Neymar is just burdening the club. The decision to recruit him from PSG was a very bad decision by PSG. The club could even pick non injury prone player rather than him. I was very disappointed when al hilal announced him as a new recruitment by the club.




Look at neymar's stats. How garbage his stats are.

He was only doing a few matches in al hilal but received full payments. I think that al hilal must have terminated him as soon as possible.

In my opinion, Neymar was not even providing psychological support, as he barely participated in training or played. So it's something they haven't even seen to have any impact on the field or the team in general.

Al Nassr is not in a good situation right now. And trust me, I cannot keep defending Cristiano Ronaldo anymore. There was no reason for him to do that in the 86th minute of the match against Al Hilal. I understand that it was in the heat of the moment and frustration was going on inside the player's head. but keeping cool in those situations makes players like him better than the others. But I guess his career is already over, at least at the top of the competition. And he is getting paid retirement money at this moment. Maybe he has started to care less.

Anyway, they do not have any chance to win the Saudi league title and they have also been kicked out of the Saudi Super Cup. The only thing they have left to chase is the King Cup of Champions. I hope they will be able to at least win that. Ronaldo has scored 36 goals for his team in all competitions this season. But doing these kinds of things definitely does not help his team.

I still don't know what made Al Hilal to get these perfect results because the other teams spent too much money and hired players like Mane and Ronaldo in Al Nassr but in the end, we saw Al Hilal win the Saudi League while I was not expecting this. They even lost Neymar during this season and normally absence of a superstar player like Neymar can have a negative effect and make the team fail but they still had a perfect performance. Just like how good Levekusen performing in the Bundesliga during this season, they have shown good performance.
Maybe Jorge Jesus was the key for Al Hilal or maybe that's because of the good teamwork they have in their team.

True talk because if you check years back only a few people used to watch the Saudi professional league, but with the recent increased presence of the these European players, Such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, and just to mention a few, the number of fans and supporters has grown exponentially, I do believe with time, the League will become very competitive as well between these clubs you mentioned above, Next season I believe there's going to be a number of changes, in terms of players switching clubs and managers moving here and there, furthermore, more new European players will be brought into the league.

There is no instant process to realize ambitions, Al Nassr, Al Ahli and Al Ittihad are also both shaded by PIF, but the three clubs have been unable to put pressure on Al Hilal this season. The Saudi Pro League will indeed develop better as time goes by, and with the presence of a number of top European players, the League will be able to reach a competitive level in the future. But it all takes time, and everything requires adaptation, we hope that next season Al Hilal will no longer walk alone in winning the Saudi Pro League trophy, as well as in other domestic competitions.

Al Hilal current impressive performance comes from thorough preparation, they have succeeded in building even depth squad in each line, not prioritizing just one position. It is true that so far no team has been able to beat Al Hilal, which I think will also be successful in the Asian Champions League. Neymar long injury did not make Al Hilal lose balance, and it proves that they do not rely on just one star player.