Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 28. (Read 126542 times)

His stamina is better than other old players but if you compare his stamina with young players, he is worse. In face to face fight, he can win some but he lose more than that, and his rate of winning is lower than years ago. It's because with ageing, his fitness and stamina are worse than years ago and worse with time, it's natural.

Maintaining strong stamina like this at nearly 40-year old is great success of Cristiano Ronaldo, but it's untrue to exaggerate that he is stronger than many young players. His strength, jump and pace are worse over time and now he has higher failed rate in fightings with young players than several years ago.

Depends on his ambition and leagues he want to play in, his career will be longer or shorter because with his strength, he can play many more years if he accepts to player a lower level.

In this season, we have significant drop in quality of Al Hilal and Al Nassr just because of this currently both are struggling and having second and fourth spots in league table while we have good improvement in Al Ittihad and newly promoted Al Qadisiya also giving good challenge for having good end of their season.

We have some positive things in Saudi League but still they needed to keep going with high profile players which can make good mark of this league in future until 2034 World Cup which is now their main target, and they are investing huge funds for this Ronaldo is main target for them until world cup which is doing good job and having good impact around the world but still it's going to be not easy for them to keep things on this level because they are still lacking of involvement of their own youngsters which is important for the development of this game in this country.

Cristiano Ronaldo's stamina is still no less than that of young players. He can always maintain his steps so that they remain effective. Because he also realized that he was no longer able to run as much as in his youth. But he replaces all that with effective steps where he is always good at putting himself in good positions. So it is not surprising that the attacks built by Al-Nassr or Portugal are always very effective when Cristiano Ronaldo is on the field. And conditions are a little different when Cristiano Ronaldo is absent. Portugal and Al-Nassr quite often get bad results when cr7 is absent.

He is no longer young but his fitness deserves appreciation. He really knows how to stay healthy and fit. So it is not surprising that he will continue to play for a few more seasons even though he will be 40 years old in a few months.

It's not about having good defenders or having good forwards in Al Nassr. We all know Al Nassr got enough good players in good defensive and forward lines but they still can't get good results and other than scoring goals in the games we saw from them but they couldn't have good teamwork and that's the main problem.
the defensive power in a team and defensive reaction will start from forwards for the goalkeeper and that's why I think all the players should contribute to this. Maybe Al Nassr just needs to have better teamwork and after that, they will have more chances to get better results in which Pioli can help the team.

Al Nassr are 11 points behind Al Ittihad and 9 points behind Al Hilal. Al Nassr will most likely fail again this season, although the opportunity to be involved in the trophy race is still open. Meanwhile, it is still too far to talk about next season, Al Nassr must try to end this season in a decent place. Ronaldo fans are clearly very disappointed, because the mega star from Portugal failed to win a trophy in the Saudi Pro League. In two months Ronaldo will be 40 years old, maybe he will consider many things related to his professional career. Actually Al Nassr can move actively in the January transfer window, if they are really ambitious to win a trophy in this season.

Ronaldo does have a big motivation to keep playing football. It is very rare to see a player who is still actively playing in his professional career at his current age. He is even still productive in scoring goals.
The distance between Al Nassr and Al Ittihad and Al Hilal is currently quite far, this season Ronaldo will not think about the Saudi Pro League trophy. If they are indeed ambitious for the trophy, they can prepare now and focus on next season. Of course, there will be some changes in the squad if they want to dominate next season.

Before Cristiano Ronaldo joined Al Nassr, we all know him to be a serial winner who has an insatiable quest to win as many trophies as possible. That's the reason he's been doing everything possible to help the Saudi club win a trophy while he's still with them but sadly for him, his efforts aren't strong enough to help the club win.
Of a truth, he's getting old and might leave professional football in few years from now but his desire to win more trophies I think will continue to drive him to do more for the club and hopefully, he'll succeed to help Al Nassr claim a major trophy in no distant time.

When the big teams of the Saudi Pro League are able to bring in top European players, then it might be bad for their country's Saudi national team squad. Because after all, a coach of the caliber of Roberto Mancini was also fired or left the Saudi national team after the Saudi national team lost to Indonesia. Thus, it will certainly be a concern for them to continue to provide good playing time for their national team players in every club that exists. But indeed,  if they only have the goal of increasing the popularity of profits in sales of the impact of many top European players, then it will be a factor that will make it difficult for their national team to  get good results.

It is not a theory but it is something should be done by Ronaldo. He won't come to Al Nassr if he isn't expected to improve Al Nassr performance. Sure, to win the title is the main goal of Ronaldo. It is also what Al Nassr board expects from having Ronaldo in Al Nassr squad. Unfortunately, it seems difficult to win the title for this season. I assume this season will be another failure for Ronaldo. Al Nassr isn't quite strong to compete with Al Ittihad and Al Hilal.

I think Ronaldo won't be so ambitious to win World Cup title. He must be aware that it is very difficult to win, especially with the current age of Ronaldo. He may be hard to play with his best performance anymore.

Ronaldo come to Al Nassr isn't for money only. He wants to play regularly, Al Nassr gives him the regular position and he also becomes the captain. Sure, he may retire in Al Nassr, he probably won't play until 45 years old. I think he only can play until 42 years old. And he probably will stay in Al Nassr as long as he plays in SPL.

I did not follow up their transfer activities in the summer and didn't know that they bought new defenders to improve their defense system or not. It seems they did because when I watched highlights of their matches in this season, I saw new players, and some new defenders like one or two in their squad. But these players failed to help them improving their defense and if Al-Nassr want to have improvements, they will have to buy new players for their club in a next summer transfer season, or if they're hurry, they can try in winter transfer season.

He is a very ambitious player and he does not feel comfortable by ending a season as a runner up. It's worse in this season as Al-Nassr now are falling deeper in Saudi Professional League, and chance for them to win Saudi Professional League is almost zero. There is big risk that they can lose their third position too and it will be nightmare and very disappointment for Cristiano Ronaldo.

Even Cristiano Ronaldo is unsure about his future with Al-Nassr. No signal that they will sign a new contract with him and Cristiano Ronaldo might return to Europe with a latest call invitation from Jose Mourinho.

Well, some theories do say that. But in reality maybe only time will tell. But on his YouTube channel I think I've seen him talk about how money is quite important at this age. Because we know he will also retire as a football player soon. because yes, he is almost 40 years old now. So I'm not sure he will make it through 2 more seasons. Unless he still looks fit and his stamina never declines, then maybe he will continue playing even for the next 2 seasons. But I am also quite sure that Cristiano Ronaldo will no longer change clubs. He will probably make Al-Nassr his last club. Although it seems like there are rumors circulating that several big offers have come to him.

Actually since last season defence is the main weakness of Al Nassr, but strangely enough they don't seem to see this position to be improved, actually Al Nassr has a very dangerous attack line but without the support of a strong defence it will not have a positive effect on their game, currently their performance has actually improved greatly when in the hands of Pioli, but it looks like Pioli still must to improve their defence in the transfer market later, besides that Pioli currently has to emphasize the mentality, focus and concentration of his players to be even better so that they can maintain excellence until the game ends.

The impression that can be captured from Al Nassr defeat is that they are not ready to be a title challenger this season. Al Nassr defense line has actually looked porous since last season, the management does not seem serious about fixing the defense area. Pioli came when the season was already underway, so the former AC Milan manager did not have time to fix his team weaknesses. Although we realize that the season is still very long, it is almost impossible for Al Nassr to reduce the 11-point gap with Al Ittihad who are currently at the top of the standings. Therefore, Al Nassr management should be able to take advantage of the January transfer market to recruit new players, so that at least they can finish in the Asian Champions League (LCA) zone when the season ends.

Indeed, Al Nassr's defense was quite careless which caused the club to often concede goals at unexpected times. If in the extra time they were still focused, maybe they could still bring home 1 point, but Al Ittihad managed to take advantage of the carelessness and create a goal to get full points and finally Al Nassr had to swallow a bitter defeat because they were unable to reply in the remaining time because the last goal was quite a surprising goal and of course left the players unable to do anything.

It is natural that every player loves his team and country, same goes for Cristiano Ronaldo. It's not like he's just trying to perform well by joining Al Nassr. He has tried to give his best wherever he has been given the opportunity to play, be it at the national team or club level. Cristiano Ronaldo is almost 40 years old but still he is constantly setting new records. A few days ago you may have seen that he has scored 900 goals, a record that no player from any country or club in the world has touched before. One of the reasons for Cristiano Ronaldo's good performance at the moment is that he might want to give his club a title, Maybe he is constantly performing well with that goal in mind or trying to do so.

It just that it still long time because the possibility of Saudi Arabia hosting the World Cup is 2034 and of course this should not be problem for them to be able to build stronger national team even though many people also understand how Saudi Arabia is currently still far below the word good for performance in several competitions that even now in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers they look bad.
Some local players also join strong team in the SPL and play with top European players, it should indeed be able to increase the productivity of the performance of local players but in reality they develop very slowly and are really unable to filter more quickly the playing style of European players.

It's not surprising to see Al-Nassr is standing under Al-Hilal and Al-Ittihad because these clubs are strongest in Saudi Professional League. They are two latest champions of Saudi Professional League and Al-Ittihad simply return to a position they belong too. I am only surprised to see some other clubs like Al-Qadasyiya, and Al-Ahli, Al-Shabab are challenging Al-Nassr for a third position.

This can be because of many things that happen at the same time, decreasing performances of Al-Nassr and suddenly improvements of these competitors. With emerging challenges from these clubs, Al-Nassr will have to focus on their coming matches to have good results and defend their third position in Saudi Professional League. If they can get good results, they can hope of a return in Saudi Professional League title competition with Al-Hilal and Al-Ittihad.

Cristiano Ronaldo is not a cause or main cause of all these not too good performances of Al-Nassr, he is only one of their players.

Initially, I personally wasn't familiar with the SPL because what I knew were only well-known leagues such as the English League and Laliga, yes, in my opinion, what the Saudi League is doing is really extraordinary, they are making fantastic breakthroughs and of course this has now been proven by the arrival of star players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema and others of course made the SPL famous and finally, now the Saudi League has become one of the favorite shows and this is extraordinary.

But yes, I haven't seen any young Saudi Arabian players with stand out, but I'm sure that with the many SPL bringing in star players like Cristiano Ronaldo and others, the young Saudi Arabian players will definitely learn a lot from the star players brought in by the SPL.

Indeed, currently Al-Nassr is experiencing a decline in performance and it seems like I personally also see that Cristiano Ronaldo needs a good partner because I see that Cristiano Ronaldo always plays well but unfortunately no one can have a good duet with Ronaldo. It seems like it would be a good solution if, for example, Cristiano Ronaldo had a reliable partner and it seems like if Al Nassr could bring in a good partner for Ronaldo then there would definitely be great potential for Al Nassr and Ronaldo's dreams to come true.

For now their priority is to gain popularity as a target to host the World Cup well, while for the increase in young players it hasn't begun maybe this is in a different vision
With the arrival of great players, it does not seem to have an impact on the ability of local players this can be proven by looking at their achievements in several tournaments
Maybe new rules are needed so that local players can contribute to each club for example 50% of the squad must come from local players and not as a substitute.

Cristiano Ronaldo loves his team and his country a lot, he is currently performing for the Al Nassr team. Due to his age, he is currently becoming very weak because I have noticed that I have seen players like him perform very little at such an old age. Although he is old, his running speed is much faster than that of young people, that is why I am a true fan of him.
 Although he will retire, he is still fit enough to perform on the field for a long time, maybe he will have the possibility to participate in the next World Cup.