Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 359. (Read 130646 times)

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.

If that happens the Saudi league will be even more terrifying and maybe more people will come to watch every big match filled with the names of these great European players. Mohammed Salah and Lewandowski are the most strongly rumored to be going to the Saudi league but that won't happen this winter and we'll see if in the summer everything changes or stays the same. The possibility of Mohammed Salah staying at Liverpool is still very strong and Jurgen Kloop is also not a problem even though he is old enough to be at Liverpool as long as the player can perform well and contribute fully to the team.

But when it comes to Lewandowski, the biggest possibility is with him and it is impossible for Barcelona to keep him with his current quality. Moreover, Lewandowski already has a replacement from Brazil and the possibility of being expelled from Barcelona is also very high. Apart from that, the Saudi league will definitely look for other European player options who already have big names to continue to expose the league.

But at least he can play well and of course as time goes by everything will become like perfect squad where there is full support from every player, it just that perhaps the lack of proper coordination and good game collaboration makes Benzema look less competitive.
There is possibility that Benzema could return to Europe but if he only plays for team like Manchester United or Chelsea then it will be the same and in my opinion it is still much better to play with Al-Ittihad than to play for one of the two English team.
But if Benzema can return to Real Madrid, it will restore his career, but it seems that Ancelotti also doesn't really believe in Benzema and what more, Ancelotti has plans to bring in several star players.
Benzema has lost his position for Real Madrid and Benzema will not be able to return to play with Real Madrid at his advancing age.

Many Saudi teams are still interested in hiring superstar players and they are going to send offers for more players during this summer, for example, I was expecting to see more players like Lewandoski and Salah finally accept the offer from these teams and play in the Saudi League, however, there's the chance for these players to had poor performance just like Karim Benzema had so far.

I'll just add to what you said in this post. however, I do not have data and information regarding exactly when PIF acquired the 4 clubs competing in the Saudi Pro League. but what is clear, before PIF acquired Al Hilal and several other clubs. PIF has first acquired the majority of shares in Newcastle in 2021. After that, in the 22-23 season news spread that PIF owned the majority of shares in Al Hilal, Al Nassr, Al Ittihad and Al-Ahli. So before PIF took over ownership of Al Hilal, this team was one of the elite teams in the Saudi Pro League. and yeah, as you said that is the fact.
Last season Al Hilal had a very busy schedule of matches compared to other teams, especially in the second half of the season. In one week, Al Hilal can play 3 matches that are close together. Apart from that, Al Hilal must divide its focus on other competitions. In the end, this team experienced a decline in performance, and Al Ittihad was able to break Al Hilal's dominance after three consecutive seasons of being champions in this competition.

This season, Al Hilal is no less competitive with Al Nassr, which has long been its rival. They brought in several top European players, and the most famous was Neymar. In the end, Neymar was dropped due to a long injury in order to add slots to strengthen their defensive line. Now, Al Hilal is at the top of the standings with a difference of seven points over the teams below their ranking. It could be said that currently Al Hilal is the closest in winning the Saudi Pro League trophy this season. especially, if we talk based on statistics and you have reviewed them. So, the Al Hilal coach's job is only to maintain the consistency of his team's squad until this season ends.

The SPL league are on break at this point and it’ll e preferable these players use this time to train well and harder especially as how competition will increase when the league resumes. Al Ittihad and Al Ta’ee will be one match to look out for. Especially as the later won’t be taking the match lightly knowing the former’s performance this season have been quite poor. Al Hilal and Al Nassr’s friendlies are getting closer and I believe their players are seriously training for these matches to make the team and league proud.

 These matches will be quite fierce as it’ll be a big boost especially for the league of the winners so are pretty important and the players for this reason are real serious about it, cause the rivalry with both team is getting intense and none would want  to lose to another even though it's just a friendly match.

That seems like something they have achieved at least, which is very good for them. I personally did not, the "real" leagues matter to me a lot more, I still find Saudi League like "big3" that NBA has, all the retired players get together and play in a 3v3 situation at half court, like street ball, and most players are over 40 years old having fun and nothing serious. That is in short what Saudi League is to me, you can be a little young, but so far it has been quite one way street, people who go there, do not come back.

In short, I can understand why people may consider Saudi League fun, and that means they are doing things right, if you and a few more people are missing it that means they are getting views, which is all that matters.

There is nothing going to happen about this because they are already having few good strikers, but their problem is not recruiting new players their problem is fixing internal issues which are more important even Karim Benzema career here in Saudi League is look like going to end in this transfer window because club is not happened with hit behaviour and player is also feeling not comfortable those things can take any change about this all but most chances Manchester United will be not going to have any risk like this.

With this we also have few other players are also facing issues which are creating problems for the organizers in Saudi League they need to check this all before having any new signing because things like these surely can create question mark for this league even they are spending huge funds for bringing them.

Yes, I also really miss the Saudi League playing again, but what can we do, we have to be patient and wait, of course even though currently the Saudi League players are relaxing, it would be better if they prepared themselves with training and of course it will definitely produce stamina and good performance. Yes, the elite teams have to perform well because their competition when the Saudi League starts will definitely be tight, especially as Ittihad will of course start its first match after a long holiday and Ittihad will face Al-Ta'ee, even though Ittihad can be said to be superior to Al -ta'ee but of course we won't know because sometimes Al-ta'ee's performance might be better because of the long holiday. So indeed, having training like that will definitely make the team's abilities better and no longer stiff when the match starts.

It looks like Al-Hilal's match against Inter Miami in the Friendly match is also getting closer and of course you have to start practicing now.
Likewise with Al-Nassr who will face Shanghai Shenhua in the Friendlies match so they definitely also need to train from now on so I am amazed by the Saudi League team who are training.

Yes, of course in the next match there will definitely be a fierce match because of course all teams want to become champions this season. Yes, I also can't wait and want to see the match.

I really miss the Saudi league and can't wait to watch the matches of the teams filled with star players. But it seems we have to be a little more patient because the Saudi League competition will start in about 2 weeks and we hope that the players will be fit when the competition starts again. I saw that elite Saudi league teams such as Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal, Al-Ahli and Al-Ittihad have started training simultaneously since yesterday and of course this is something they have to do considering the match is getting closer.

The players often have to do more intense training to maintain their performance and even though they have more time to relax than other leagues, they have to start preparing again for real battles. The competition for the title may be interesting but the prestige of each competing team to always target 3 points is something that should be prioritized. Apart from that, I also can't wait to place bets again on Saudi League matches.

Are you sure about this? I meant that if you have been assuming the main motive of benzema to leave from ittihad to get a new challenge and this may be wrong. Benzema has been ever at the top of european competition so many times.
He has been winning so many trophies. I think that the main reason must be there are many accusations are coming to him. We can't really argue that since there have been many problems happened in ittihad but look at this.
Im only telling you some points

*Manchester united has not yet opened talk with ittihad regarding him
* romano has been confirming that it's still a rumor

Don't take this rumor seriously dude. It's caused by it will make the situation even worst caused by there will be a lot of problems to come for manchester united at this time.


I completely forgot to mention that there have been rumors circulating about Manchester United's potential interest in recruiting Benzema, but the club has been denying these speculations. Any team can be linked to him but manchester united may not recruit him. he was old and his salary is also very high. Manchester united prefers to use the available striker in the club right now. It doesn't even matter how strong they are but that's benzema. We may not be seeing benzema to go to the EPL.

I think this is impossible because in 1 season there are many matches. Apart from that, Al Hilal not only faces matches in the Saudi Pro League, they also have to compete in the Arabian King's Cup and also the LCA, but because Al Hilal's consistency is quite high, they have not experienced defeat. until now and it is indeed an extraordinary achievement, but I think that towards the end Al Hilal will definitely lose their concentration, causing them to lose either 2 or 3 matches. I believe a club will not achieve a perfect total win because that is quite impossible.

Well, because of that, I am quite sure that even though currently Al Hilal still looks quite strong and has not yet wavered, I am sure that Al Hilal will definitely face its first defeat this season so that Al Nassr can catch up with Al Hilal in terms of points, but even if Al Hilal suffers a defeat, whether it's in 1 or 2 matches they still have the potential to win the title considering that they are currently the strongest club and are not easy to beat, their consistency is also extraordinary, surpassing Al Nassr.

Not only that, but in terms of goal statistics, Al Hilal is the best among all the teams in the Saudi Pro League this season, Al Hilal only conceded 9 goals in 19 matches and scoring 59 goals is extraordinary.
What Al Hilal has achieved this season continues their dominance in the Saudi pro league which was broken by Ittihad FC last season, because Al Hilal is the team with the most Saudi pro league titles compared to other clubs by collecting 18 championship titles and succeeding as runners up 15 times.
Al Hilal's dominance is not like Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, which continues to be champion many times, even for a decade, because if they have been champions 2 or 3 times, there will be other teams such as Al Nassr and Ittihad FC who can break this dominance, but in a decade this champion is dominated by a club that is under the auspices of PIF, so we can see that money plays quite an important role in making a team strong and successful.

It is really unbelievable that they had zero losses all season long, there are still some time left until the season ends and when the league is guaranteed, players may let go a bit, they still have teams way too close to them right now to let go.

I remember during the covid period Liverpool had a season where they did not lose for a looooong time, they were considered as a potential to finish the season without ever losing, I think it was 19-20 season or so, the covid period exactly. But then between giving a break due to covid and facing City and all, they ended up losing eventually, had three losses total, but they won with 15+ point difference, which is why they didn't care about losing all that much that season.

But the question remains what this individual award means to him. I think he knows that he has done the job everyone expected, but when we are talking about higher goals I think it is better to win the Saudi Pro League title and the individual title as the best goal scorer in the league should be considered secondary. The way that Ronaldo presents himself is sometimes too optimistic and his teammates notice that. He would say that he did what was expected, but the rest did not kind of communication.

In earlier years of his career he was the same, but his goals often led to winning titles. But not winning the title in the Saudi Pro League should nevertheless be a disappointment for him no matter whether he is the best scorer or not.

Every league? I never heard him to play at french league or am i wrong about that? Ronaldo is still leading the top scorer this season and it will always be like that. Mitrovic was the only potential player who can surpass him but since ronaldo will not able to play and it gives opportunity to the mitrovic to be even closer to the ronaldo's total goal in saudi pro league this season. I think that winning the league is much preferable instead of being top scorer. Ronaldo was the best player in the saudi pro league but it doesn't mean he will always able to dominate the league.
I think that he has been hearing that some of his friends will be leaving from saudi pro league like benzema. This is a disaster for the league caused by the image of saudi pro league will be affecting caused by this.
Im also thinking that if ronaldo needs also try to attract more players to come soon. If those players like henderson and benzema will be going to leave and it was destroying the snowball being made by ronaldo to make the league to be even bigger.

Not only about performance because anyway, Ronaldo can also still play well even though here in Saudi has a different culture and climate. Of course, the adjustment is also not easy but in fact, Ronaldo managed to adjust himself to keep playing well in the Saudi Pro League. At least with some other star players who find it difficult to adjust themselves well here in Saudi, then the case is also proof that it is still not easy to adjust in the Saudi Pro League. So yes, therefore it can be assumed that Ronaldo remains the best player despite no longer competing in Europe's elite competition.