Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 367. (Read 130590 times)

The only ones who did not live up to expectations were Benzema and Neymar.
Benzema has competed with Al Ittihad but has not shown his talent in Europe and I don't know why, but he seems less aggressive or maybe because of age, but the coach should be able to provide good education to improve Benzema's performance.
Neymar, perhaps always injured and barely able to give his best performance since joining Al Hilal, is like giving salaries to players who only sleep at home, but even so, Al Hilal doesn't mind this because it only needs Neymar's popular name and the fact is that Al Hilal can perform very consistently without Neymar and only rely on Mitrovic.
For Ronaldo, I admit that he is a star player with extraordinary talent and every club that recruits him will definitely never be disappointed because he can always score big numbers even though Al Nassr has not been able to achieve the title he wants, but having Ronaldo has many benefits.

It's very strange indeed, even though for them the Saudi league is not as difficult as imagined and with its current level it has been proven that the quality of these star players has dropped drastically. Even though Benzema still performed well in the previous season with Real Madrid, everyone knows that Neymar will only be a patient for the doctors who already know him very well. But what happened to Ronaldo was an unimaginable beauty and he wanted to prove to the world that he was not finished.

Even though Ronaldo is also the oldest player in this competition, his mentality is still the same as that of a young person who never gives up. Ronaldo also paid in full the salary that Al-Nassr gave him with the amount he always recorded in the calendar. It's just that now maybe the Saudi league title is what he wants most before retiring or leaving Al-Nassr. As for Firmnio, I don't think it needs to be explained further considering that he was no longer Jurgen Kloop's main choice last season so his decline is not surprising at all.

Of course, this was quite good performance because he still made contribution and managed to provide an assist for goal, but looking at Henderson playing statistics while with the England and Liverpool national teams, he is not reliable goal creator.
It just shame that Henderson, who should be able to play very well and enthusiastically in defending Al-Ettifaq, instead gave statement that he regretted moving to Saudi, this was his decision and he had to play as patiently as possible.
I know that Henderson will not have better career in the future while staying with Al-Ettifaq but he also has very small chance of returning to play for Liverpool.
Henderson must regain his enthusiasm and he must prove that he is one of the best players England has.

But recently there have been reports and rumors that Firmino has the opportunity to reunite or return to Klopp squad in the Premier League.
In contrast to Henderson, there is no news about his move, but rumors about Firmino state that this opportunity is not for this season but for next season.
I don't know what will actually happen next, but I sure that if there is an opportunity and budget, Klopp will definitely bring Firmino back.

Yes, this is surprising to many people because Karim Benzema, who we know at Real Madrid, is a figure who is aggressive in attacking and can easily score goals. Perhaps because at Real Madrid Karim Benzema found a match and his club mates were able to help Karim Benzema. Whereas in the Saudi league It seems like Karim Benzema has a little difficulty adapting to the environment and his teammates so Karim Benzema doesn't work optimally, I think Ittihad really has to be a little patient waiting for Benzema to return to his best performance because adapting to a different league and environment is of course a new experience for an experienced player playing in Europe.

Karim Benzema doesn't have a problem with football. If he had a problem, of course he would prefer to retire rather than continue his career in the Saudi league. I think Benzema does have problems in life there, where the Saudi league definitely has a different life from the European league, but in my opinion, Benzema still keep trying so that he can be like Cristiano Ronaldo who is already very good at playing for Al Nassr.

I think he underestimated the Saudi league. Benzema faced a more difficult league than he expected. I think he should make an effort to repay the salary paid to him. Neymar was injured almost before he could play a match and he could not stand out either. Benzema also fell below expectations. Again, one of the best in the league is Cristiano Ronaldo. Firmino did not make the expected impact either. The stars are fading away one by one.

Old means nothing as long as the player can keep up with its fitness and healthy life. I see no problem for him to rejoin in EPL again. It's his right but the club seems being so careless with the problem faced by him. There was not even further talk with henderson to stay at the ettifaq instead of leave from there. I do feel what henderson feel caused by he was not playing in the right club. The story will be completely different when Hendo starts playing for a club like Al Hilal in the SPL, as it could potentially extend his stay in the league for a significant period of time.

It proves that money can't build good environment for the players. The players are faced with the task of deciding whether they will stay or depart from the club, based on their willingness. It's caused by the winter transfer season was not so long and the player needs to decide it as soon as possible.
In fact, henderson needs to be careful caused by his age. I think that moving to the EPL will not be a bad decision from him consider the fact that if he will still able to play better on ettifaq even though the club was very bad for him.

SPL is an entire different league were most of these teams doesn't have the chance to fight for good titles. Matches played by elite teams, they ought to win without any struggles, sticking to the plan by thrashing their opponents. I see no future for Karim Benzema in Saudi Arabia League because he's not consistent with his performance in matches. This is Saudi Arabia and not France or Real Madrid where his weakness are evaluated and cover-up from the public. How's life treating him lately in football? I guess he's passing one of the crucial moments and they wouldn't keen on settling.

Since Benzema joined Al Ittihad, his true performance has not been seen until now. Maybe the reason why Benzema's performance is less than optimal and Al Ittihad could drop in ranking, in my opinion there are several factors that influence it. One of them

• Benzema really needs to adapt to all the players and coaches.
• Apart from that, Benzema doesn't seem to have found a suitable teammate for him
• This season's Saudi Arabian League competition is drastically different from last season (because many top European players have joined SPL clubs)

Perhaps it is because of this factor that Benzema has not shown his best abilities and Al Ittihad has been pushed to 7th place. However, Benzema is currently in fifth place on the top scorer list. So it could be said that with teammates who lack chemistry with him and with a coach who is also not good, Benzema can still score goals.
So you can imagine that at Al Ittihad he had playmates with whom he had good chemistry, a coach who was close to him and managed to adapt completely. I'm sure the performance will be much better.

I would say that was a shocking one to me to be fair. I did not expect him to have such issues, I mean I could definitely see him have trouble on the field, that part is not a shocker and he doesn't need to be doing all that crazy, but that doesn't mean that I expected him to have trouble off the field neither, I think it should be something that would not be all that easy to adapt when it comes to regular life.

If he had trouble with just football, then he could keep playing and eventually he will get adapt to it, but if he is having trouble adjusting to life there? That may not be all that easy to handle, it would definitely be a trouble and needs to be something that could get a lot better and he needs to figure out a way to get adapt there.

Well in the grand scheme of things I don't think that the Saudi clubs are actually wasting money. Because they wanted to improve the popularity of their club and the whole of Saudi football. They are successfully doing that by bringing in these very players. Now of course it is going to matter for the individual clubs if the player is going to perform well or not. But they are actually achieving what they wanted in some way.

But the way Benzema is performing right now, it is definitely hurting the club. And I don't think anyone can actually deny that benzema was very lucky in that year which he was the best player of the world. A lot of goals that he scored were very lucky. But he did deserve that in that year. But now it's like a different person.

Al Nassr and Al Hilal are both different teams, one is bigger than the other this season interms of performance and stats. I'm more concerned about my favorite player, he's the reason I'm interested in Saudi Arabia football competition, he is the undisputed GOAT, Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portugal international would be down if his team doesn't succeed in the long SPL race this season because they've put everything within their space to grab important titles but it seems, the harder they strive, the more they become closer to dissapointing results. Al Hilal sits comfortably on the SPL table since the early starts of the season, they've grown to become a top consistent team.

Al Hilal hasn't even suffered a defeat yet. The teams that could beat Al Hilal could not beat them either, and they have dominated the league with only 2 draws and 17 wins so far. The eyes of the world are now on SAPL. Al Nassr has a lot of followers because of Ronaldo, but if Al Hilal makes no mistakes, the championship will be theirs. I don't expect them to make mistakes against Al Raed either.

I have big doubts about his problem being the atmosphere. I think he is lacking the willpower to work for his money. Benzema had his luckiest moment ever when he became the best player in the world and out of a sudden the teams from the Saudi Professional League wanted him, but he is different than Ronaldo actually. Ronaldo really wants to score the most goals, that is the least he can do and he will do it whenever he can. Benzema doesn't care about becoming the goal scorer and he knows that nobody can take away the salary from him. That is why he doesn't behave like a professional. He plays like an amateur and can't get himself going again. It's like a scam to me, but the Saudi clubs are the ones who are wasting their money, so I don't care.

It is true that Benzema often get injury, he experienced a severe injury previously. That is probably one of the factor why he can't perform in his best form anymore. The injury problem is one of the obstacles for a professional player to play again with the best level. Honestly, Benzema dropped very much his performance. We know that how good he performed in Real Madrid before he moved to SPL.

Yes, Al Ittihad hired a new coach. They probably will let him to manage Al Ittihad until the end of the season. I really hope that this coach will apply tactics that is suitable for Benzema. If the new coach applied the wrong tactics, Benzema will be always difficult to show his best anymore.

There is a possibility that it will happen again, the reasons for injuries and other activities sound reasonable, there is no guarantee that this friendly match can bring Ronaldo and Messi together. of course, from the perspective of fans of the two mega stars, they hope to see the two of them compete again with their skills, this friendly match really attracts the attention of fans. In my opinion, the rivalry between Ronaldo and Messi has finished after they both left europe, and now they are each enjoying the rest of their careers before deciding to retire.

About Benzema i think he was failed to adapt with the atmosphere of Saudi Pro League so that's why the fans were starting to complaining to his performance although this season he has scores 9 goals but it didn't make the fans satisfied with his performance because they expect Benzema can scores more goals with Al Ittihad besides that Benzema also rumoured he has a conflict with Al Ittihad previous manager Nuno Espirito Santo and this also causes Espirito Santo have to sacked
Some of European players has starting not too comfortable to playing at Saudi Pro League including Benzema this because they failed to adapt with this league and some people predict those players had possibilities to leave Saudi Pro League this January and for Benzema too the recent rumour is this player maybe will leave Al Ittihad and he was linked to Manchester United

There seems to be no end to comparing these two GOATs and yes, it seems like Messi has finished football and he has also started to rest since the MLS season ended a few months ago and is just waiting for MLS to roll back in February. So his main focus now is only with the Argentinian national team.

Meanwhile, Ronaldo will still be active, including Al-Nassr because every season the Saudi league has a system adopted by most leagues in Europe or Asia so he will still compete until the end of the season. Well, regardless of the existing conditions of these two GOATs, of course they are both in different leagues and with teams on different continents, so this cannot be equated.

In my opinion, Liverpool will not bring these players back, it simply doesn't make any sense, they left Liverpool precisely because they no longer played as often and when they were at Liverpool, the Liverpool coach chose to go to the market to sign others players like Darwin Nunes and Cody Gakpo, and left Firmino sitting on the bench. So it doesn't make sense for Liverpool to bring back Firmino, who is already 32 years old, while Liverpool can sign another young player who performs well. Another point that must also be taken into consideration is that this Arab league is not strong and even so, Firmino has not been able to score many goals, so if he is not managing to score many goals in this league, then he will have difficulties in the premier league. the liverpool coach wouldn't take so much risk in bringing firmino back


If Messi really plays, then I believe that many people will watch this game because they are Ronaldo fans and want to see Messi's team lose, one thing for me is very clear, that Ronaldo's team is at a level far below many teams in the Saudi league For some time, I looked at the US league as being better than the Saudi league, but I changed my view. The reality is that the Saudi league is at a much higher level than the US league and in this game that will be between Messi's team against Ronaldo's team, if it is available for betting, I will bet that Ronaldo's team will win this game. comfortable way. Those guys on Messi's team don't play at all. They will suffer many goals, it will be a humiliating defeat for Messi's team. It would have been better if Messi had stayed at PSG and retired at PSG

To be honest, I don't really follow the rumors and developments regarding Henderson. if it is true as reported or rumored, it is a choice he has made. if it is uncomfortable, especially since there are many obstacles and pressures that he faces, including language being one of them. if forced, maybe it wouldn't be better for him or for the team. there is nothing wrong if he wants to leave his current club, but which European club will recruit him at his current age and how long will he have a career in football?  while he is currently almost 34 next June. and before he decided to join Al Ettifaq, his decision should have been very definite. I mean, he has to think about it from all aspects including language, culture and climatic conditions there.

Well, actually I don't know whether this news is true. or, just a rumor. however, speaking from a club and team perspective, it is very natural that Al Ettifaq has difficulty competing in this competition, let alone breaking into the top four of the standings. considering that other teams are more competitive in terms of team depth, I mean for clubs acquired by PIF. if Henderson wants his team to be at a level like Al Hilal, Al Nassr, then the club must be willing to spend quite a lot of money. because, most of the players who play with Al Ettifaq do not have big names and we don't even know how they perform. let's see, just as you said, what will happen in the next few weeks.

Messi is in rest mood from a few months ago, is like he is in an active retirement and he only play to keep the pace for the upcoming national team games, instead Cristiano Ronaldo keeps playing like no tomorrow in both teams Al Nasrr and in Portuguese national team.