Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 263. (Read 112161 times)

For Ronaldo this league and level fits likea glove for him, because in Europe at 100% level he was starting to drop a little because of his age, but here in this league with a bit less of level he is again at 100% level and he can seems like he never go down in his performance, ended up being a good move for him.

Yes, both of them adapted extraordinarily to the new club. maybe Ronaldo's first season wasn't so smooth. but this season, Ronaldo has performed extraordinary. not only in scoring goals but also with the assists he provides. he is not unselfish in the team and he can score goals or provide assists to his teammates.
Mitrović is still younger than Ronaldo. He is quite faster in the game than Ronaldo, who currently needs team support to score more goals. We have to admit that Ronaldo's speed performance has decreased. but not with his experience playing on the field. both players played extraordinarily. even when they are not young anymore.

Talking about Ronaldo never ends and as one of the GOATs, his greatness and perseverance can always be a good example for other young players. In places he has experienced in England, Spain, Italy and now Saudi Arabia, he is still a figure who is very ambitious about scoring goals and wants to get his name on the top scorer's board every season. The way of adapting to a new place may have to be imitated by other players because whether it is easy or not depends on how the player can conquer it.

Here Ronaldo was able to prove that he could and at a very old age for a football player he could continue to get what he wanted as long as there was intention and hard work. The competition to get the Saudi League golden boot is certainly not an easy matter for him because there will always be competition and here Mitrovic from Al-Hilal is his closest competitor and maybe we will see just these two players from the list of European players who are available to win the golden boot this season.

But I doubt that anyone actually had any doubts Ronaldo would lead the top scorer list. I was pretty sure that he would take the lead and keep it, but I have problems coming up with conclusions based on those numbers. Does it mean that he is still in outstanding shape because he is leading the top scorer list in the Saudi Professional League?

It's too bad he wasn't able to become part of the Manchester United squad for a longer time because they he could have had a fight with Haaland. This is where I see the difference. Would he be leading the Premier League top scorer list at his age? That would have been impressive and I think it would have silenced all the critics.

I remember there was some talk whether Ronaldo could go to Manchester City. That would have been exciting to see how he would have done there. But now this is just speculation and we can only work with the numbers he has attached to his name in the SPL.

We know how Ronaldo plays in every league, he is always full of ambition so don't be surprised if Ronaldo can adapt quickly, one clear example is that he can always take a place in the top scorer list and this is the 4th time Ronaldo has won the golden boot from a different league, yeah Ronaldo hasn't got it yet in the Saudi Pro League but I'm sure he will and Ronaldo is also in the top 1 based on assists, currently Ronaldo is 3 goals ahead of Aleksandar Mitrović. By the way, Aleksandar Mitrović is also one of the players who adapted the fastest in the Saudi Pro League and this is his first season but he managed to attract attention.

No doubt with Cristiano Ronaldo easily to adapt well with new team in his career, he was good achievement since joined with Manchester United, Real Madrid, Juventus and Al Nassr without faced difficult with adaption. I don't know why have many top european players such as Karim Benzema, Jordan Henderson and Roberto Firmino can't adapt well with Saudi Pro League teams. First season, Cristiano Ronaldo have scored many goals with Al Nassr and his performance keep consistency until second season top scorer achievement awhile.
Left winning domestic league only will make Cristiano Ronaldo become success achievement and winning almost 4 domestic league tittle with difference teams.

I've followed Benzema's career for a while, and his move to Al Ittihad was intriguing. I assumed he wanted a fresh challenge, but now it seems it was more about money. One used to European football must adjust to Saudi Arabia's culture and lifestyle. I think his recent behaviour shows sorrow and a desire to return to Europe.

A player of his calibre faltering is discouraging. According to my sources, numerous European SPL players experience this alienation. Both the game and feeling at home are important, something Benzema appears to lack. Ronaldo may have thrived in his new setting, but Benzema's situation shows how important a player's professional and personal fit is.

The Saudi Pro League has been on quite a long holiday and now I feel like I'm missing the league that I always watch every week. It's quite strange indeed when a league that previously I didn't even know existed, is now one of the leagues that I watch and even bet on. This is one form of their success in building their popularity, it cannot be denied that this is the impact of their movements in the transfer market which brought in many star plyers and players who are very well known in the big leagues in Europe.
I want to know if I'm the only one who feels this way or if most people feel the same way. From initially not knowing anything about the Saudi Pro League, it has now become one of the leagues that is on my list of must-watch matches.
Now I'm looking forward to what they do once they gain this popularity, whether they will do something new that will elevate their name even more, or this will just pass by. I do hope they continue it.

Well, one of the factors that has made Jorge Jesus successful so far in managing Al Hilal in his first season, is that he was able to keep his team going consistently and without losing in his 19 matches in the Saudi Pro League. plus, in several other competitions. although when compared in terms of team depth, Al Nassr has far the most competitive squad than other teams. however, what differentiates Al Hilal from other teams in this competition is that they carry out very good, solid, disciplined teamwork, plus they are filled with players who are appropriate in their respective positions. that's why, so far Al Hilal has been able to move smoothly compared to other teams. what's cool is that Al Hilal has been able to win 20 of its matches in various competitions so far. now, there are rumors that Al Hilal is targeting players who can be relied on in the defense line. with the scenario, the Al Hilal coach wants his defense line to be stronger. thus, it is hoped that the competing teams, especially Al Nassr, will find it difficult to reduce the point difference or even get close to Al Hilal's points.

Well, because this competition still has enough time left, each team competing in this league can focus on improving their respective teams. as for Al Nassr, as I said in many previous posts. Luis Castro's job is only to focus his team's squad to remain consistent and win the matches they will play, especially when they have to defeat Al Hilal in the second meeting. while hoping, Al Hilal will slip up in several of their matches. thus, the potential to overtake the standings or win trophies this season is still wide open. moreover, there is still half the season that each team has to play. which means, we cannot yet confirm which team will win the trophy this season even though so far Al Hilal is one of the teams closest to the league title. Let's just wait, at least until the end of this season.

Al Hilal have managed to stay unbeaten this season and the way they’ve maintained this is alot to show that they’re the best teAm of the league this season. Meanwhile Al Nassr had 3 defeats but picked up thier form massively after those defeats and it was because of the absence of star man, Ronaldo. It’ll be a tough run for Al Nassr to win this league especially with form that Al Hilal are at currently. Al Hilal who looks like a team not ready to drop off points anytime soon would be giving Al Nassr some tough works to do.

 The matches between Al Hilal and Inter Miami and also Al Nassr will be one that football fans would love to see because of the European stars in these fixtures. Especially to see how Al Hilal will perform against Al Nassr. We all know how tough the match would be, based on their previous meetings and those are the two most inform club in the SPL.

Al-Hilal, who haven't lost even once this season in the Saudi Pro League, is truly extraordinary. And this is also a sign that Al-Hilal is indeed the best this season. Even Al-Nassr lost when facing them. Al-hilal managed to pass the 19 matches in the Saudi Pro League without defeat. Meanwhile, Al-Nassr has had 3 defeats and the defeats were from the first 2 matches of the season when Cristiano Ronaldo was absent in the first 2 matches.

I also hope Al-Nassr can win the title this season. But I realize that it really won't be easy with the remaining games in the season. Unless Al-hilal loses their consistency in the middle of this season.

I also can't wait to see the matches between Al-hilal vs Inter Miami and Al-Nassr vs Inter Miami. Yes, these two matches will definitely attract the attention of all football fans. Especially for fans of Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi. And everyone is also curious whether Al-hilal, who is unbeaten in the SPL, will be defeated by Inter Miami.

In fact, Al Hilal is much stronger than Al Nassr this season because Al Hilal is able to appear impressive in every match. I think Al Hilal will be able to win a trophy this season because they are 7 points ahead of Al Nassr. Apart from that, this season only has 11 more matches remaining which Al Hilal will probably be able to make the best use of to continue to get 3 points to maintain their hopes of being able to lock up the title early.

Al Hilal or Al Nassr have a goal machine in their team where Al Hilal has Mitrovic and Al Nassr has Ronaldo. Also both of them have had quite a big influence on their progress this season. But I have high hopes for Al Nassr this season to become champions because Ronaldo has performed quite well this season and it would be a shame if they failed to become champions this season.

They were just realizing that if SPL was not suitable place for all of them to play. I have seen that henderson has made a negotiation with ajax and firmino will be also very close in leaving from the club soon. There may be another news that will report the latest development of him with the new club.
Im just checking the latest news and this is what i got from there. I can't even even believe this to happen. Benzema to EPL? Is this for real?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/25049203/transfer-news-live-chelsea-newcastle-liverpool-guimaraes-updates/

Considering the current situation, it is fair to say that Chelsea is struggling to find a solution for their striker position. Recent rumors indicate that they are looking at Benzema or Firmino as potential candidates for this role. I can't even believe it if there was a club that was willing to get one from them all.
My preference is for Chelsea to acquire Firmino because he has demonstrated the ability to easily adapt to the EPL. However, the only factor that makes me doubtful is if Firmino has ever stated that he would never join Liverpool's rival.

Im doubting his statement if he will be opening talk to the chelsea regarding his transfer. It seems like pochettino is not willing to get non experienced striker this time. Firmino's comeback to the EPL may be real soon.

Benzema was injury prone and it's quite risky for chelsea to get him.

At the age of 36, Benzema actually has to be able to behave well and be able to have a more professional attitude because Al-Ittihad also brought him in for very large fee.
The suspension he received should have made Benzema realize that what he did was mistake and of course he should be able to provide better explanation and apology to the coach.
If you look at Benzema playing performance in the SPL, it actually not that bad because he managed to provide 9 goals and also 5 assists in 15 matches, this proves that Benzema can still be relied on.

Regarding the rumors circulating about Benzema loan with European team, not only PSG but also Manchester United stated that they were interested in the loan option for Benzema.
But looking at both team it seems like Benzema would be better off with PSG than Manchester United because Manchester United also haven't performed that well in the last few match.

Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal are still the strongest teams currently in the Saudi League and of course the competition between Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr is still ongoing, yes of course the names Cristiano Ronaldo and Aleksandar Mitrovic are always thereand adorn our ears because these 2 players are players who The current greats in the Saudi League are Cristiano Ronaldo from Alnassr and Aleksandar Mitrovic from Al-Hilal. Yes, now the Saudi League match has not yet started and indeed when the match starts Al-Nassr must be able to consistently win and if they don't consistently win it will make the point difference far behind Al-Hilal. and in the next match, Al-Nassr will definitely face Al-Hilal and this match is very interesting because it brings together the strongest team currently in the Saudi League, of course Al-Hilal also wants to complete their victory, even though in the first match against Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal won at that time with score 3-0. and I think this time Al-nassr definitely doesn't want to lose a second time and definitely wants to win and wants to make the point difference smaller with Al-hilal. but indeed, if in the second meeting Al-nassr loses then it looks like Al-hilal will have the potential to win and become champions this season.

Yes, of course we won't know who will win the trophy this season, but what is clear is that Al-Nassr still has hope of winning the trophy this season because there are still a lot of matches.

Yes, the Inter Miami and Al-nassr match is really missed because it will see Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo meeting and indeed the Al-Hilal match against Inter Miami will open up opportunities for Luis Castro, namely looking for Al-Hilal's weaknesses so that in the next match Al-Nassr will face Al-hilal luis castro already knows Al-hilal's weakness.

Benzema was just showing a signal if he was not feeling confidence anymore to play in the real madrid. This is the main problem of him and im guessing that if it was also impacting his performance in the field as well.
Moving to the SPL might be one of his bad decision since he has tried a few months to play in al ittihad but it was unable to get excellent result. It seems that Benzema is in a state of uncertainty, unsure of whether he should continue his association with Ittihad or explore other opportunities.

Im also think that many people would be mocking him if will leave from ittihad. We have seen some players potentially to leave from saudi pro league this month. Benzema may be considering leaving from there if there will be some ue players will agree to go back in european club again.
I hope that those guys will be reconsider it again. Given that the EPL was a completely different challenge for each of them, it is understandable that they would think twice before deciding to leave their current club and venture into the realm of European clubs once more.

And do you think he can get back to his former team at this time of his age? There are many strikers in Europe top leagues that are finding their way to Real Madrid, I don't Benzema will be welcomed because he has lose form in Saudi Pro League as we expected him to give a top notch performance since he is a world class striker back then in one of the best teams in the world, but small strikers like Mitrovic and others overtake him in the Saudi Pro League, that's why I didn't expect him to go back Europe, he should just retire from football.


I thought as much either; but most of these players are aged and cannot cope with tough competitions in the European Leagues due to their age, I thin Saudi Arabian League will be the best place for them for now until young players start to join them.

For this season, the depth of Al Nassr's squad is extraordinary, they have Cristiano Ronaldo, Talischa and Sadio Mane, but unfortunately the squad that Al Nassr has is not much better than that of Al Hilal. Even though currently Al Nassr is in 2nd place but in the last 2 season, when Al Nassr did not have 3 star players, Al Nassr was already in the top ranking between 2 and 3, so the presence of these 3 players only maintained the performance that Al Nassr had from season to season and could not surpass Al Hilal in terms of consistency.
Al Nassr is really looking forward to Al Hilal faltering in the next few matches so that the difference in points between the two will be smaller so that Al Nassr still has a chance to win the Saudi Pro League title, but if Al Nassr is able to win the match without losing then that opportunity is still wide open.

The presence of 2 phenomenal players certainly makes all football fans really look forward to this meeting because these two players are historical star players so it will attract a lot of interest from those who watch it. I think this will be the most interesting meeting among other player meetings because 2 different leagues are clashing in strength. in showing the best performance, especially for Messi et al and Ronaldo et al.

He seems to regret joining Al Ittihad because it is difficult for him to adapt to the lifestyle there. Because his recent behavior indicates that Benzema really wants to return to the European continent. Several teams are starting to take advantage of this situation to use his services for the second half of this season, such as Manchester United, which is widely reported to be interested in bringing him to Old Trafford. So that's the right choice for Erik Ten Hag if he wants to borrow Benzema from Al Ittihad because he is not very comfortable staying with Al Ittihad.

I think some players are starting to show their inability to stay in the Saudi Arabian league. Maybe for now only Ronaldo is truly enjoying his career in the Saudi Arabian league while other players are having difficulty doing so because they are still plagued by frustration and regret about leaving the European stage. We'll see whether Benzema will return to play with an elite European team like Manchester United or another team.

Wow, that's interesting news about Al Hilal! Their success in Saudi Arabia is impressive. Exciting to hear about the potential addition of Renan Lodi from Marseille; he's a talented player. The rumored transfer fee of 25 million euros sounds like a significant investment. Looking forward to seeing how this unfolds for the team!