Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 3. (Read 122765 times)

I'm still trying to understand the first few statements above yet I can't fathom the clash of assertions in your statement. You can't claim that Al-Nassr are fine in their position at the table standing. Every team wants to see themselves at the very top position of the table standing whereas Al-Nassr are at the 4th position right now. They still need to beat Al-Qadisiyya with at least 4 points, beat Al Hilal with at least 10 points, and Al-Ittihad with at least 12 points to go to the top level of the table after the club have played in 13 matches. The truth is, Al Nassr is not fine but they are not really doing badly, however they need to buckle up their game to be able to over take those clubs above them at the table. They're all barely 13 matches thus far and will require almost 60% of appearance stil yet before the end of the season. I hope the exotic BMW cars shared among the players will serve as a morale booster towards increasing their performances all the way up.

Cristiano Ronaldo would have every right to leave the team if he wants to, it's clear that we are going to end up with seeing how things could change for him. The team is not doing good at all and this could cause him to want to move to another team, I would totally understand something like that.

I have no idea where he will go, after making this much money in the few seasons he has been here, going to some other team for five million or ten million type of amount of money wouldn't make sense, but considering Al Nassr isn't getting the title, and never did when he was there, I do not think they will offer him 100+ million to stay neither, or maybe barely 100 million, which nowadays other players make too. I think all of this is a bit questionable all together, I am not sure what's going to happen at all.

That is why, I have also said in another post that Ronaldo only has ambitions for himself to get more achievements and other achievements in his football career. So, it makes no sense if anyone says Ronaldo does not have any target to continue playing in his old age. But indeed, Ronaldo does not have a sense of pessimism and continues to make his best efforts that  he can do at this time. But unfortunately, although Ronaldo still has great ambitions and also, the fact is that Al Nassr also has better players in his squad than other teams. Butyes, I just wonder why they always fail from season to season to make their team get a trophy. I think it is a very unfortunate result,  because Al Nassr has players with great ambition to get trophies, but in fact they still fail.

This season should be Benzema's season to win the title in the Saudi League competition, although it is not as prestigious as the Europa League when Bemzema was still at Real Madrid. However, it is still a pride for him who is still able to win a trophy in the final years of his career in professional football, at least he can bring Al Ittihad back to winning the trophy. With Laurent Blanc as the team coach, he is now sharp again as a goal scorer. There is no need to reflect on Benzema's problems with the previous coach, after all that has passed and now the focus is to bring Al Ittihad to stay at the top until the end of the season. Al Ittihad is not so busy with a tight schedule, they only focus on the Saudi Pro League and maybe the King's Cup. Unlike their rivals, Al Hilal and Al Nassr who are also focused on the Asian Champions League. So, Al Ittihad is slightly more advantaged in this regard. Most importantly, Al Ittihad must defeat Al Nassr for one more meeting in an away match, also defeat Al Hilal at their home ground.  if they can do it, it seems that the League trophy title will fall back into the hands of Al Ittihad. Well, let's just wait and see what happens to these three teams until the end of the season.

Ronaldo has give significant contribution  for he squad ,but still he is not able to bring Al nassr to be the championship alone, we can see how they have a fairly sharp attack line with Ronaldo on the front lines, but it is precisely the sharpness of their attacking line that does not get good support from a solid and consistent midfield and defence so far, so making it difficult for them to be able to win the SPL as happened this season, in addition to the arrival of many star players after ronaldo to SPL, has increased the quality and tighter competition between clubs in the SPL at this time, so Al Nassr also has a big challenge to compete with other teams that also have high quality players.

Al Nassr are fine in their place but the other teams in the Saudi league have produced stronger teams than Al Nassr which is why Al Nassr is still at the bottom of the points table. As the competition is steadily getting tougher, Al Nassr should consider the strength of other teams and strengthen their team more. If there is a problem in finishing or there is a problem on the wing then Al Nassr should solve that problem. Until Al Nassr can strengthen their team more than other teams, they will remain at the bottom of the points table. So their plan for next season should be to make their team strong by any means and then go into the field fully prepared next season.

Yes, initially everyone's expectations for Al Nasr after Ronaldo's arrival were very high. Because it cannot be denied that Ronaldo is a very great football player and could be said to be the best in his golden era. That's why many people put their hopes in Al Nasr. However, in reality, Al Nasr has always failed to win the Saudi Arabian League since Ronaldo joined. Even last season, Al Nasr could be said to be promising enough to become champions, but as a result Al Nasr failed and was only able to finish in second place in the Saudi Arabian League. Then this season I think Al Nasr has less potential to become champions of the Saudi Arabian League. The reason is that currently Al Nasr is only able to rank 4th in the Saudi Arabian League and has a very large difference in points with the team which is currently at the top of the standings (11 points).

So it is clear that Al Nasr's hopes of becoming champions of the Saudi Arabian League this season are very small. But even so, here we can't blame Ronaldo, because I think he played very well at Al Nasr. But unfortunately, currently there is not a single other player at Al Nasr who can match Ronaldo's abilities. So in the end Ronaldo was always a player who was relied on too much by other players at Al Nasr, so that Al Nasr's performance did not develop well. So I can conclude that currently Al Nasr cannot provide a suitable partner for Ronaldo. Apart from that, other teams in the Saudi Arabian League do have better players than Al Nasr. So in essence, other teams in the Saudi Arabian League do not only look at players based on big names or popularity when recruiting them, but also look at the skill aspect and also the suitability of the players they will bring in to the position they will occupy. Considering this, it is not surprising that its performance is very good. So in the future, I think Al Nasr also has to think about this, so that his team can compete even more fiercely in the Saudi Arabian league.

It seems very difficult to predict when Al-Nassr will play with its best performance because if you look at the current reality, of course it is very difficult to see that Al-Nassr will play with its best performance and become champions. As we already know, Al-Nassr is not like Ittihad and Al Hilal because the two teams always play well and their cooperation is also very good when playing with always good passing. even though in my opinion Al Nassr has good players as long as Al Nassr has a good strategy then there will definitely be potential good for Al Nassr's performance when playing. As we already know, when Al-Nassr played against Al Hilal in their last match, we saw that the result of the match was a draw with a score of 1-1 and in my opinion this proves that Al-Nassr really has good strength as long as a coach has a good strategy.

Yes, Ittihad is indeed great because this season there has been a good increase in performance. The point is that Ittihad has succeeded in improving its current team to be better than last season. and what I am most surprised about now is Al Qadisiyah because Al Qadisiyah has always played very impressively and Al-nassr was even defeated by Al Qadisiyah. This is really surprising because Al Nassr should have been able to win against Al Qadisiyah at that time. Yes, in addition, with the recruitment of new players and coaches, Al Nassr should be able to do well and always achieve lots of wins when they bring in new coaches and others.

but honestly, in my opinion, Al Nassr can still be said to be a good club and of course I think there is still hope for Al Nassr to win the title this season. and I think the fans can still hope because of course we won't know about Al Nassr's next match and I'm sure Al-Nassr still has great potential to rise and perform with its best performance. So in my opinion the potential to become a champion for Al Nassr is certainly still there.

But at least at Al-nassr he really seemed to really enjoy playing with his teammates. Because at Al-Nassr I saw all the players really respect Cristiano Ronaldo. And he also managed to set a good record for himself even though he couldn't bring Al-Nassr to the top. but there is still a chance next season. Even though this season Al-Nassr failed, next season this team could rise and surprise everyone by dominating the SPL. Well this looks like a tough one even for next season. but there's no harm in hoping that way. 
But the problem is, isn't Cristiano Ronaldo's contract expiring at the end of this season?
And will Al-Nassr extend it or will a new offer come to Cristiano Ronaldo from another club?

Then have to wait until when Al Nassr finds its best performance? look at Al Ittihad last season where their performance was worse than Al Nassr but this season with the change of coach their performance gradually improved and now they look consistent in winning while Al Nassr is not better than last season even though Al Nassr has recruited several top players and has changed coaches who have a lot of experience but still their performance is not much different, I think people need to lower their expectations of Al Nassr because their performance is not better than Al Hilal and Al Ittihad.

But if Neymar wants to be paid lower, there may still be some team who willing bring him, but he is always in the red zone regarding injury problems and after recovering to play again it also does not last long because in some time later he will definitely be injured again and have to be on the bench or for recovery.
Desire to be able to play with Brazil in the World Cup is suicide mission because Neymar ability has really decreased significantly, he will only make it difficult and burden other players, maybe it is time for Neymar to consider retiring early because it is difficult to get place with his current condition.

I still can't understand what is the weakness of Al Nassr which made this team far from the title of the Saudi League because they got a good team and good payles there even Al Nassr spent money for hiring players like Ronaldo to have good leadership in this team but still they were not good enough and even after that they hired Pioli to get the team improved but instead of getting improved they had just bad performance even with Pili working in Al Nassr.
On the other hand, Al Ittihad is getting better and better. They are even performing better than Al Hilal, which means we can expect to see Al Hilal lose the title at the end of the season.

Do you think Ronaldo went to Al Nassr because it was so important to him to win titles in Saudi Arabia or do you think he went to Al Nassr because they paid him half a billion dollars for 2.5 years?

I wouldn't call a club the wrong club if they offered me half a billion for only 2.5 years and I doubt that Ronaldo really cares. He has won it all with Real Madrid and Manchester United and while he has to remain professional and be ambitious, I doubt that he is angry about how things are going. It's a bonus, but this deal was mostly about financial things.

Yep. Both Ronaldo and Benzema were also injured but they could recover faster. Ronaldo and Benzema cared with their career, so they always keep their healthy life and avoid further injuries. It is different with Neymar who doesn't care with his career, Neymar looks very difficult to have healthy life. Since Neymar never keeps his physical strength and fitness, the chance to get another injury case higher. Now, with his prone of injury, Al Hilal may be no longer interested to keep Neymar in the squad. I think it is better to retire than moving to another team in Brazil league or MLS league. Ideally, Neymar should try to have another career in a different field.

Neymar situation is quite complex in my opinion, because the injuries he often experiences have become a big obstacle in his career, so if he is later released for free by Al Hillal, nonetheless other teams still will think twice before recruiting him, especially since he has a high salary standard so far, so indeed better for him to following in the footsteps of Varane to retire early because that is the right step for Neymar at this time, Because with a very long history of injuries it will be very difficult for him to restore performance in playing, I think by took Neymar to the 2026 World Cup squad is also not the right step for Brazil, because  he will only increase burden and also reduce the number of slots of players they can bring to America, Canada and Mexico later.

If I'm not mistaken Ronaldo and Benzema also had injuries after moving to the Saudi club, but they were not as badly injured as Neymar.
It is true that Neymar has not made a significant contribution to Al Hilal. And it seems that Al Hilal is also not affected by his absence from the team. They still perform well.
Even after recovering he also had to rest again because his injury recurred. Maybe his career at Al Hilal is over and if he still wants to continue after recovering, he can return to the Brazilian club or wherever. But he might have to be willing to accept a smaller salary.

There are quite a lot of teams interested in Neymar, but to make an offer, they must consider the player injury history and the amount of his salary. It is possible that when his contract ends with Al Hilal, Neymar will decide to retire, although he still seems ambitious to play in the 2026 World Cup. So far, Neymar has not made a real contribution to Al Hilal, the Brazilian international player has not been able to meet expectations according to his price. Ronaldo and Benzema are lucky because they have avoided injury, so they can make an impact on the team in every match.

Well, problems like that will also have an effect, you are right that previously Benzema had problems with their coach and there were even rumors that Benzema would be sold, and I concluded that it was because of personal problems between Benzema. But now the situation is getting better and it is also accompanied by Benzema's increasingly good performance.
Without realizing it, the problem will affect the performance of the players, it will make the situation even more complicated because in feelings the players may feel a little lazy. Yes, it is unprofessional, but it is also a natural thing as a human being.

The ridiculous rule made by the Saudi Arabian Football Federation, where they allow clubs to register up to 10 foreign players. And this is more than other leagues, we see quite a lot of top European players flocking to the Arab league, just because of one thing, they are tempted by the very high salaries. On the one hand, with so many top European players playing in the Arab league, this will further boost the reputation of the league, even now the SPL is the best league in Asia. But it is very unfortunate that the impact of this, most local Saudi Arabian players only become bench warmers. And as a result, because they are only given a little playing time, when they enter the national team, their performance is very bad.

and regarding CR7, for a player his age, CR7 performed very well. but it is very unfortunate that this is not accompanied by good teamwork. and maybe that is what makes Al-nassr still unable to win the league after bringing in CR7.

Quality players are now spread across almost every club playing in the SPL, so there is a possibility that in the future the competition in the league will be more competitive. However, this seems useless if it is not balanced with an increase in the quality of local players.

Al Nasir did not just buy Christiano Ronaldo because they wanted to win trophies season upon season, even though that is part of the plan, the main reason is for business purposes so as to project the club and make it really popular. believe me that the revenue the club has generated because of Ronaldo when it comes to how much of the Al Nasir jersey that get sold out on a weekly basis and the numbers of Ronaldo supporters that comes to watch him play, it gives them far more recognition and generate a lot of revenue that can even compensate to them not winning trophies. it's not as though the team was doing better than this before he came into the picture. with his presence that has attracted a lot of European stars into the league the league is getting more tougher, and it is going to get really tough for him to get his team to winning the league. AL Itihad and AL Hilal are two teams that arereally strong and will stand to make it deficult for them to get anywhere near the top of the table.