Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 272. (Read 112182 times)

That’s the mentality of a sports person and it is what i like about him, his physical fitness is what is giving him the physical strength and ability to keep playing till this age. At this age most players would have retired for almost 3-5 years ago, some players retire at 33 or 30 but what Ronaldo has done is not an easy thing and despite that he was able to emerge as the highest goal scorer of the year ahead of young Haaland and Mbappe.

Ronaldo have been playing an important role for Al Nassr since joining them both on annd off the pitch, since joining they have had a massive increase in social media followers and engagement, an additional increase of almost 20m followers on instagram and also he have scored more goals than any other player since joining them and have made them aa title contender in SPL this season. All this at the age of 38, Al Nassr are really lucky to have him.

Could it be that it is entirely the Ittihad FC coach's fault for what is happening to his team at the moment? because actually what is happening at Ittihad FC right now is quite strange, where they actually became a better team when Karim Benzema was not in the team because last season when they managed to become champions there was no Benzema's name there and their main striker Abderrazak Hamdallah became very productive striker last season and was the mainstay of the team to become league champions, but now everything looks very different.
Karim Benzema plays as the main striker while Hamdallah is the second striker but Hamdallah contributes more goals even though the number of matches is less than Benzema, so it could be that the problem is not entirely the coach but Benzema who is not performing as the club expects, it could be because of his age or because the club thinks he will be like Ronaldo who can be relied on as a goal machine even though the two are very different where Ronaldo is a player with above average fitness even though he is older than Benzema so Ronaldo often performs optimally with his club.
Meanwhile, changing the coach is always the main choice for the club, but this season it is no longer possible for them to defend the title.

Benzema's career is finished and ittihad keeps drop even deeper than before and im quite surprised to see that how this club does nothing this season. Benzema can be called as the main problem owned by ittihad. He makes the club became unstable caused by he was being contradicted witht he ittihad's coach. I knew him as one of best striker in the world but it's not for this time. Benzema was doing too much interfere in the internal of club. It makes the management feel so hard to pick which party that can be trusted by the management.

Ittihad needs to reevaluate its performance as soon as possible. It's caused by ittihad will be very very far from finishing at the top. The fans of Ittihad are beginning to experience a sense of discontentment due to benzema's recurring behavior within the team, which is believed to be a result of him being granted additional privileges by the club owner to exert control over the club.
It likes when benzema was told the management to sack the coach then the coach got sacked. This is happening in al ittihad and it's very bad. Is there a chance that Ittihad will take the action of removing him from the club? It feels like that benzema was the main causes from all of problems in ittihad.
It's really painful for the ittihad fans to see their favorite club becomes very pathetic like that. It keeps lose against mediocre player which was proving that if money was not everything in the football.

The effects of  presence of some players in any league can't be overly emphasized as evident in the case of Ronald which you have rightly stated. I think the Saudi Arabians understood this and used it as a business strategy to growing their league, because they knew that if their leagues must grow then they needed attention and one of such attention can come from the presence of star players.

Not only have the league and clubs gained so much attention but their fan base must have definitely increased and this must aswell have attracted so many investors in to the league who will come and invest in the league and making sure to bringing the league to the standard of other elite leagues, they also used the strategy of very attractive payments and buying players at very good sum to further attract the kind of players they wanted in their league a d thats why at a point PSG wouldn't mind  for a Saudi team to come and make a bid for mbappe because they know they will make good money from such deals.

Benzema first season with Al Ittihad did not go quite smoothly, it could even be said that he needed time to adapt to his new team. But his presence in the Al Ittihad team is a guide for Al Ittihad players because he is a player full of experience and last season he won the ballon dor. I think he just needs time to be able to give his best to the Al Ittihad team. Al Ittihad is in 7th place in the standings and they are quite far behind the first place team.

I think there is no big target for the Al Ittihad team this season because they will not be able to catch up again after being quite far behind Al Hilal as the top of the standings. As defending champions this season, of course they experienced a drastic decline in their performance this season. Maybe some fans are disappointed because benzema presence was not able to make Al Ittihad stronger this season, but that must be understood because he needs time to adapt to the game of the Saudi Arabian league team.

But actually the current Al-ittihad coach is still a new coach at Al-ittihad. The previous Al-Ittihad coach had disagreements with Benzema and was fired at the start of this season and then replaced by the current coach, Marcelo Daniel Gallardo. And at first I thought Marcelo Daniel Gallardo could bring good results to Al-ittihad. Even Marcelo Daniel Gallardo's first debut as coach at Al-ittihad was also quite successful and Benzema scored a goal at that time. But after that I felt Al-ittihad returned to their performance like before the change of coach. Well, I also feel that there must be a change of coach again if Marcelo Daniel Gallardo cannot make Al-ittihad improve by the end of the season. But if Al-ittihad improves this season until the end then I don't think a change of coach is necessary.

But we should no longer be hopeful to see a good performance from Benzema anymore. Benzema was mostly injured or he was not in the good for and this made even the fans of Al Ittihad unhappy about him. I think even if they buy better midfielders, with the forwards they have, they can't have much better performance and nothing will ever change for them.

all Ittihad needs now is a small overhaul of the defense and adding a midfielder or winger who can support Benzema to score in large numbers so that he can give Ittihad victory in every match. now we see that in fact Ittihad line-up doesn't seem to lack players, but it still lacks some players who have to be replaced with quality players because in the SPL more and more teams are bringing in players from europe so perhaps competition in terms of Ittihad performance has decreased and currently this is Ittihad opportunity to get a high-quality defender and get a midfielder who can partner Benzema when he is on the field to provide a solid partnership.

I am sure that if Ittihad immediately corrects this bad situation, it will definitely recover soon and have an improvement in the team's performance and I understand what you feel, a little annoyed seeing Ittihad recent performance, often losing, but let's just wait and see what Ittihad management will do, will it immediately improve? or will just remain silent without certainty.

Yes, it is a shame that the potential that Al Ittihad players have failed to be exploited by the coaches, especially Karim Benzema, who used to be a goal scoring machine at the big European club Real Madrid, but at the Ittihad club, Karim Benzema seems to have lost his confidence and his potential seems to be wasted. Sia and the coaches seemed to have difficulty building Al Ittihad's performance so that they continued to decline and failed to get full points in their last 3 matches against clubs that were not very strong.

Ittihad just changed coaches last November and this club has changed twice in the same month so changing it now might cause controversy or the players will have difficulty establishing chemistry if they keep changing coaches, what Marcelo Gallardo has to do now is to can build a strategy well because Ittihad already has good players it's just a matter of the manager who built it.

Let's take a look at the current situation in al ittihad. Benzema as a star player european team has been taking control over the club. He has ordered to sack the coach and there are many unsolved problems in the club. This makes the situation is changing drastically. Al ittihad doesn't have good coach at this moment. Benzema shall have ordered the owner to bring the new coach. I would like to see ittihad to hire a good european coach and this will help the club so much. Al ittihad is performing worse compared to the last season.

It seems like there have been many internal conflicts are happening in the club. Ittihad will always stuck in the same place till he will able to perform better. Im not expecting al ittihad to go up again in a short time. It takes tame for ittihad to build the momentum.
This is the main problem that may be so difficult to be sorted out. In fact, benzema causes the main problem that is happening in the club. Im sure that the club being divided into the two parties.

The owner needs to take his responsibility as an owner. There must be a new coach as soon as possible or ittihad is still stuck in the same place.

Al-Raed at the end of the year was successful by beating Abha with a score of 4-3 and this was a good achievement at the end of the year for Al-Raed, but in February, when Al-Raed faced Al-Hilal, of course many predicted that Al-Hilal would win and to be honest, I personally also predict that Al-hilal will easily beat Al-raed and I am also sure that Aleksandar Mitrovic and his friends will score lots of goals, because so far Al-hilal's performance has not decreased and of course Al-hilal is a team that strongest currently in the SPL.

Indeed, it is very difficult for Al-Nassr to become champions this season because Al-Hilal's performance is truly extraordinary. The proof is that in the match against Al-Nassr which we watched together, Al-Hilal won the match with a score of 3-0, so of course we can predict If in the next match Al-Hilal will easily beat the other teams. If the match at that time had been won by Al-Nassr then the difference in points between Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal would not have been too far, but now the rice has become porridge, of course Al-Nassr is forced to accept the fact that the difference in points between Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal is now much different. However, there is certainly still hope for Al-Nassr to become champions this season and we will see what will happen at the end of this season. Yes, it's just luck that Al-Nassr has to get if they want to become champions this season. Now the competition is getting more exciting between Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal.

Although Al Ittihad has great coaches, they can't optimize the potential of Al Ittihad players. They don't understand how to make Benzema to play as the right machine goal. If they could make Benzema to play in his best level, I'm sure Al Ittihad won't be experiencing those losses. At least, Al Ittihad must win against weaker teams. It is very annoying to see Al Ittihad got losses against the team like Al Raed, Damac, and Al Shabab. Al Ittihad is much better than those teams, Al Ittihad has everything to destroy those teams.

I think Al Ittihad needs to rebuild their squad and change the coach as well. But it must be in the new season, they shouldn't do it until the end of this season.

That's what they get for their money. They obviously can't buy motivation. Maybe they would be better off if they told players like Benzema that he would get 100 million in salaries per year if he scores 25 goals per season or more. The way the Saudi clubs do this doesn't really convince me. Sincerity is not valid here. You could argue that Benzema should play his best because he gets so much money, but I think the opposite can happen when you think about it from a psychological point of view. Once these contracts are signed, there must be an insane moment of relaxation within these players. The times that they have to push their limits are over.

Of course Ronaldo has changed the Saudi Arabian League into a more famous league with his presence in the Al Nassr team. But recently there has been news circulating that several top European players who joined the Saudi Arabian league team want to return to join European teams, such as Henderson and Firmino. I think this will have a bad impact on the Saudi Arabian league because if some players want to return to the European league then it is very likely that new players targeted by Saudi Arabian league teams will have difficulty convincing them to join their team. Because so far some players do not feel comfortable playing in the Saudi Arabian league.

However, apart from that, this season the Saudi Arab League is very competitive in the competition for the title because Al Hilal has appeared quite impressive so far and has not left room for Al Nassr to shift their ranking. If Al Nassr fails to win the title this season, Ronaldo might be quite disappointed because he has tried quite well this season but failed to bring a trophy for Al Nassr.

Cristiano Ronaldo's presence at Al Nassr isn't just beneficial to the club only but to the entire Saudi Arabian league. His presence has significantly improved the quality of the league and have made more people all over the globe where not even interested in the Saudi Arabian league in the last to now love almost everything in the Saudi league.

He's a been great influence to Al Nassr in particular and to the Saudi Arabia league in general. At 38, Cristiano Ronaldo was still able to score 54 goals last year which was the highest by any player in world football and still isn't showing any sign of decline this new year. He's currently at the top of the chart for top goalscorer in the Saudi Pro League and hopefully he's gonna help his club win a

The situation in a Al-Ittihad isn't well with the successive defeats they got but now they have to count on themselves to improve the team. In fact it appears that Saudi Arabia limited or maybe even stopped funding the four clubs they pushed last summer, namely Al-Hilal, Al-Ittihad, Al-Ahli and Al-Nassr. They have to use their money to purchase players this winter transfer window or fulfil some conditions to get some money from the public investment funds.
The actual situation is very good for Al-Hilal since they are leading and will keep their domination in the league, Al-Nassr won't be much affected, Al-Ahli are third and seems to be fine but definitely Al-Ittihad will suffer the most from this decision!

Although Gerrard is the kind of guy that I thought would get along perfectly with players and fans. He has these emotions that I like about coaches and he doesn't seem to be a stupid man. Yet, it looks like he doesn't connect really well with his environment and with the players. It is sad because I think he does have what it takes to become a great coach but he made a huge mistake. He went to Saudi Arabia, an inferior league that definitely doesn't help him to improve as a coach while working with the best players in the world.

Good Players performing poorly as a coach. Quite unfortunate Gerrard is in this league. When he was hired, we smelled doom for the club and it’s happening already. Now the club is in between sacking him or keeping the man. Because any decision taken now has its effect on the team. If he’s sacked, what haopens to the players mentality when the new coach takes over, can they be able to get a quality coach to immediately shape their mentality.

 When he’s left to continue what happens to the club, keep wallowing in losses and keep going down the log and probably be considered a weak team in the league. Well I prefer he’s sacked and a new coach comes at least he can either win or lose some than lose all like Steven. Because Steven’s era is bad and he mustn’t be allowed to continue else I smell relegate for this club and they’ll turn a laughing stock in the league.

Well, what do you mean by the two coaches are Nuno Santo and Marcelllo Gallardo. if so, I don't want to say that coach Nuno Santo is incompetent. in fact, last season he was able to bring Al Ittihad to win the Saudi Pro League Trophy. however, based on my observations while participating in this competition, this coach is less than ideal in his system. especially, with Benzema's typical playing style. correct me if I'm wrong, as far as I can see, Nuno Santo relies more on counter attacks in implementing his system. and in the end, he was fired by Al Ittihad management.
now Al Ittihad has changed to a coach from Argentina, namely Marcelllo Gallardo. referring to his achievements, he often won trophies with his squad before in the Latin American League competition. apart from that, this coach carries an offensive pattern. statistically, this coach from Argentina is more ideal than the previous coach. so far, Gallardo has handled Al Ittihad in 9 matches. based on statistics, he won 4 matches, 1 draw and 4 defeats, in all competitions played by Al Ittihad. well, in the last 3 matches Al Ittihad experienced quite painful defeats. the reason is, in these 3 matches Al Ittihad conceded 11 goals. which means, there is something wrong with the Al Ittihad squad. either the coach's system and strategy, or players who underperform. however, since being handled by Nuno Santo, Al Ittihad has experienced a decline in performance.

And if I compare it with the other 3 teams, Al Ittihad is not as competitive as its rivals. they only have Benzema, Ngolo Kane and Fabinho. and these three players, are over 30+. as for the other players, they don't seem to have contributed much. so it's natural that last season's champions experienced a decline. ideally, Al Ittihad should reshuffle its squad. by releasing players who are not competent and bringing in players who have quality. in this way, at least Al Ittihad can compete again at the top of the standings in this competition.

Even SPL was very lucky to have him caused by ronaldo can reject it anytime but he was still accepting an offer from al nassr to join in the club. He lives in the luxury life. It is really paid off for him and he is really enjoying his life in saudi pro league.
Ronaldo was just a savior for the league. I do remember that how small SPL is compared with this time. Ronaldo has brought so many interests to play with him. He was bringing a very good development to the league.

The excitement within me is so immense that I cannot contain myself, eagerly awaiting his match against al Hilal, which promises to be an incredibly intriguing spectacle. Al Nassr found themselves on the losing end during the first leg of the league, but there is hope as Ronaldo is expected to make use of his possessions for the second leg. The club is trying so hard to be at the top place like al hilal. Im really happy when seeing ronaldo play against the strong team caused by it gives a different atmosphere.

Buying ronaldo was the best decision ever made by al nassr. It's caused by he was helping the league to develop it to be ranked in the higher tier of league.