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The Asian Cup previously had a schedule for its implementation every July. But since 2011 when Japan won the Asian Cup, the Asian Cup is scheduled to take place in January for reasons of avoiding weather or avoiding summer waves that occur in the Middle East. The Asian Cup in January did not violate the FIFA rules because in the FIFA regulation said that the implementation of the Confederation event could be done not only in June, January could also[1].

Conditions like this do make the team strengthened by players from Asian and African countries loss.

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Based on the agenda of the Saudi Pro League striving to create visibility and awareness in the European space with the major goal of ensuring an expanded sports market, the clubs find themselves in a situation where there's less utilization of local players. These players have no doubt some certain level of effects to a club but the aims of these clubs won't allow for the players to be used. It'll only make sense that a policy be put in place for the use of local players in every team but I don't think that'll be enough to take them to where they visioned the league to get to.

 SPL wants to be broadcasted and be seen worldwide and this makes for the rapid purchase and push for European stars who'd cause focus to gradually be shifted to their league. If the local players are entertained, then there'd definitely be no room for this hot caked stars in Europe and in the long run, it won't give them the focus they want to get. All things in the SPL currently occurs as a planned activity, and they are all working towards a set goal. It's only a gradual process before the impacts are seen.

Saudi Pro League’s director of football Michael Emenalo in an interview reiterated the interest of the league to attract Mohamed Salah. He stated that he knew that the Egyptian talisman is happy in Anfield but they would be willing to sign the striker if he showed any interest in coming to Saudi Arabia. Mo Salah is a player that will attract enough publicity to the league and these clubs will be willing to pay as much as £150 million ($192m) with other attractive benefits.

Last season an undisclosed club offered Robert Lewandowski a salary of up to €150 million per year last season but he declined the offer. Maybe he might reconsider his stance because Barcelona is not having a good time in the La Liga. The Polish striker has not scored as many goals as he did last season which could be an indication that his career might be coming to an end. The Saudi League will be a good place for him to retire after making a fortune from their huge wages. Just like other football stars, Robert will bring his wealth of experience to help improve the developing league.

So far, Saudi Arabia is a very rich country and even many European football clubs owners come from that country, but in terms of football, Saudi Arabia has actually been far behind from the European continent and even from leagues such as China, Korea and even Japan before, that's why now it seems like the Arab football federation is starting to look for ways to revive their football, including by recruiting top world star players such as Ronaldo, Neymar and Benzema and I think the steps taken by the Arab football federation have received extraordinary support from the Saudi Arabian goverment so that Arab clubs there is no difficulty in recruiting these star players, if we pay attention currently Saudi Arabian clubs are starting to have many former European league players and I think slowly the Saudi Arabian league will become one of the favorite leagues for football fans like the English league, Spanish league and German league so far.

There's every possiblity of both players joining the Saudi Pro League any time soon and going by the recent reports about the future of the two European superstars, it seems like the Saudi Arabian League will be their next destination but that I don't think is going to happen this winter transfer window.
Mohammed Salah and Robert Lewandowski are two players that's got huge respect for their respective clubs and you don't expect players of their calibre to leave their current clubs I n the middle of the season. Mohammed Salah was strongly linked with a move to the Saudi league last summer and recently, Poland striker Robert Lewandowski has also been rumoured to be target of some of the clubs in the middle East nation but I expect them to leave in the summer not during the winter transfer window

If Neymar had not been injured, the Al-Hilal vs Inter Miami meeting would have been more exciting. Because we know Neymar was Messi's partner at Barcelona and PSG. So it will be very interesting to see two great players who are originally friends and then face each other on the field as opponents.

And when I see the depth of the current Inter Miami squad, it really makes me nostalgic for the composition of players that Barcelona had during Messi's time. Well, currently Inter Miami is actually filled with alumni of Barcelona players themselves. Messi, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets and Luis Suarez. Well, this is a composition that will really make everyone nostalgic, remembering Barcelona a few years ago. And the feel of Barcelona will be increasingly felt from the Inter Miami club because the current coach is Gerardo Martino, who was also the coach at Barcelona in 2013-2014.

And CR7 and Al-Nassr will also be very excited to face Inter Miami. Moreover, CR7 definitely also wants to feel the sensation he used to have when he often faced Messi on the field. All the fans, including me, can't wait for this match. It seems like 2 weeks from now will feel like a long time.

I dont know why Asian and Africa cup dont play at the same time as the two main continental cups like Eurocup and America cup, is a complete non sense and also hurts so much the teams who have asian or african players, like Son for tottenham and Salah for Liverpool.

And here we have this pause, so shit.

Looking forward to seeing whether the Saudi League signs Lewandowski and Salah. It'll affect everything if they do. Imagine matches full with European superstars! However, I doubt Lewandowski's move. Given the speculations of a Brazilian successor, Barcelona may not keep him. On the other hand, Salah may stay with Liverpool. Salah fits Klopp's system, which maximizes performance.

The Saudi League's approach is smart. These famous players are meant to boost the league's profile. Football quality and worldwide attention are both important. I want to watch how this approach plays out and who makes the big move.

More precisely, not a 1 month gap but a 1.5 month gap. Because the SPL will start again in the middle of February, namely around February 15, starting with the Al-akhdoud vs Al-Ahli match. So we will obviously feel this is taking a very long time and become bored. Because 1.5 months is quite a long time.

But our boredom will indeed be relieved in 2 weeks or at the end of January. We will see a friendly match between Al-Hilal vs Inter Miami and continue with the AL-Nassr vs Inter Miami match at the beginning of February. But after that we will get bored again because we have to wait another 2 weeks before the SPL finally starts again.

Still quite warm news came from Al-Hilal and they finally introduced their new recruit from Marseille, namely Renan Lodi. A few days ago it was discussed that an agreement had been reached on his transfer and today he was introduced to the fan public. Renan Lodi is still quite young at 25 years and it seems like he wants to try new things outside Europe before returning again. His position is as a left back and it seems that Al-Hilal did the right thing by bringing him in because the defense line also needs to be strengthened so that they can be stronger against the opponent's attacks.

Renan Lodi's status is on loan and his contract will last until 2027 and Lyon will also receive a fee of 20 million euros from the results of this transfer. I think Marseille also made the right move with this loan because they also need fresh funds to strengthen the depth of their squad. However, both Al-Hilal and Marseille have benefited from the transfer of Renan Lodi and we hope that this can also have a big impact on Al-Hilal with the addition of this squad.

Ronaldo is indeed a footballer who has extraordinary talent. Because everything has been proven, wherever he plays football, he never relaxes his performance. But he didn't get all this easily. However, with extra practice and very hard work and always consistent. For this reason, Ronaldo can be said to be one of the fighters in the world of football who has a very high work ethic. Even though he is quite old, his performance is still comparable to young players, it could even be said that Ronaldo can still outperform young players. Because as you discussed, Ronaldo has currently managed to become the temporary top scorer in the Saudi Arabian League (SPL). Apart from that, what differentiates Ronaldo from other football players is that he has extraordinary charm. Because as we know, the transfer market trend that occurred in the Saudi Arabian league started with the recruitment of Ronaldo by Al Nasr. After that, the other players also followed suit.

And talking about rivalry, Leonal Messi is also a great footballer so calling him Ronaldo's rival is a very natural and comparable thing. The reason is, Messi currently has 8 Ballon d'Or trophies and Ronaldo only has 5. However, even so, if you see the game of these two players directly on the field, I like Ronaldo better than. Because if Ronaldo only loses because of the difference in the number of Ballon d'Or trophies, I don't think that's a problem. But the most important thing is his performance when playing on the field.

The year Cristiano Ronaldo entered SPL I continued to hear negative news about the fans and proprietors of Al-Nassr frustrated with his performance. I understand his performance because Ronaldo is older which is the reason he is declining. But the case changed this season, Ronaldo has the highest number of goals made and is also the leader in assists in SPL. He is truly unique; he helps SPL and Saudi Arabia by bringing new large number of fans and foreign travelers.

The conditions and culture are different from Europe. Karim Benzema is reported unhappy in Saudi Arabia and plans to return to Europe. But for these reasons, they are paid more than in European clubs. Saudi will change, and they are gradually changing to improve.

This break is just because of weather and few other things like we have AFC Asian Cup and Afcon so many players are involved in these events which can hurt many teams even this issue is still going to have problems after this break, but this can do some better relief to them, and they are also having mid-break like we have in UEFA leagues but as mentioned too long which is also ok for them if they are feeling ok in first half we have few good things like Al Hilal leading clearly and defending champions Al Ittihad having troubling time with Al Nassr is trying his best for jumping at the top which is not easy.

With the news of many European players are feeling not comfortable things are looking some shaky but in future we can expect better environment because league needs to be comfortable if they want to have better results from players for the long run success hopefully arrival of new players will be also created good things and performance will be also improved for the many other players and clubs.

In recent times, we have no player at the level of Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Massi and this all has never been easy because they are doing their hard work for staying at this level and having performance like this without injuries and other troubles which are hurting mostly big players love to enjoy life and having no things like these two are doing.

Ronaldo's move to Saudi League was big gamble from organizers and now in first season with mostly on papers it looks like they are achieving their target but in reality many difficulties are coming and these needs to be sorted out if they want to have more foreign players in this league because conditions are not favourable with culture and many other problems are also hurting them if they are going to have settled then surely we will have this league at completely different level otherwise this all huge investment can go down badly.

Of course, the players do not care about the difficulty of the Saudi Arabian league, but SPL is a league with a lot of competition. We will see this if we look at the teams' fight against each other. The main problem for football players is that they cannot adapt to the country. The situation in the country is very different for players who played in Europe and got used to it. For the players in the SPL, the Saudi management should provide some incentives to remain a center of attraction.

A very long pause seems reasonable if indeed with this long pause will be utilized by many Saudi League Pro Clubs to get talented players from Europe in the hope that before the match starts again the players who have just been recruited can perform together.
But it not sure if the club from Saudi Pro Liga can get Lewandowski or Salah because these two players will continue to survive in Europe as long as they do not have very old age or even like Lewandowski are willing to retire rather than going to Saudi Arabia.
Yes, maybe a lot of people who can't wait to see the Saudi pro league soon begins again and the most waiting for me is only Al Nassr and Al Hilal will face Inter Miami who will prove that who is the most powerful even if only a friendly match.

I've not seen a player that have been consistent like Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi in football history, both players have been top competition for major titles for years and also in their late 30s they're still doing wonders. My favorite is stated clear to be Ronaldo, he's a rare gem and different from the vast majority of European players who thinks they can't compete with him in every level of football he's been categorized. When Ronaldo move to Saudi Pro League, he changed the football system of Saudi Arabia because they grown to become very popular. Cristiano Ronaldo have been known for his incredible qualities as a top player, he's always aiming for the best qualities and have not given up in any phase of football.

Im feeling quite bad to hear that ittihad and some clubs will be missing their european players. We are still a very long way to go before the match will begin again. All of teams need to sorted out all of their problems before the continuation from the match is going to happen soon.
I have no problems about al hilal and ahli but ittihad has been included in my exception. I meant that al hilal and ahli were in good conditions. Al nassr too but it's not for ittihad as there was internal conflict that was making benzema potentially to leave from the club to rejoin in the european club again. This rumor was disrupting the environment of saudi pro league caused by we all know that if ittihad had bought him with a lot of money. This makes thing change drastically in al ittihad.

Mid - end of season has always become the most important time to keep winning the game. Im sure that if al hilal will still keep to perform consistent in any of matches till the end of season. We are coming to the end of season soon.
Al hilal may able to keep its unbeatable record till the end of season. Al nassr will be in the big problem if al hilal will never lose any points till the end of season. I think that al hilal is going to win the current season.
It's caused by al hilal has been making absolute domination in SPL.

Everyone here must feel the same way as you. Because the SPL league holiday of more than 1 month really feels very long. So we all definitely want the SPL to start again soon. Because it's a bit boring without seeing C.Ronaldo and other European star players not competing in the SPL for 1 month. And I am increasingly curious about Al-hilal and Al-Nassr who have a friendly match against Inter Miami. I want to see the match immediately and see Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo face each other again on the field.

I hope that after this 1 month break everything will change and Al-Nassr will get stronger and can beat Al-hilal.

While the league is resting, of course the players will continues to train to prepare themselves mentally to faced the matches in the second half of this season because the journey is still long and clubs needs to hone their skill. The Saudi League has a long break compared to other leagues and the Saudi League will start match in the second half. This season at the beginning of February, Ittihad will start their match with Al Ta'ee in Week 19 because both clubs are not in good condition, so you need to be careful if you want to bet.

Al Nassr and Al Hilal will continue to show their best abilities even though it is only a friendly match because this is the league of star player Lionel Messi so Al Hilal will try to prove whether Inter Miami performance can be as good as Al Hilal in terms of strength. Once Ronaldo reunites with Lionel Messi, they will definitely continue to do so the best for their respective leagues and prove who is still strong today knowing thats both of them are no longer young.