Al-Taawoun is one of the most under-rated clubs in the Saudi Professional League. Last season they finished at the 5th place and at the moment they are at the 4th position in points table (they have the same number of points as the third placed Al Ahli, but the latter is ahead in goal difference). Unlike some of the other Saudi clubs, Al-Taawoun doesn't have any superstars. All they have is Musa Barrow from Gambia and Álvaro Medrán from Spain. But despite all that they have performed above the expectations.
I am also following them, and I was having feeling they can stay into top three but now as they are having decline into their performance most chances they will keep their 5th spot or can go at 6th because most chances we will have top four for the PIF teams which are funded and having huge investments on European Players for the better results.
Currently, Al-Hila is at the top with Al Nassr second and Al Ahli at the third but Al Ittihad is struggling which was last year champions with most chances they will catch and try to have third or fourth spot because these teams having quality veteran European players and in coming transfer window they are going to invest more which will help them for increasing their quality and performance for the second half of this season.
That's what happens when you manage a team well enough. Other teams are focusing on bringing superstar players and make sure that they get cameras turn to them, and yet this team is managed well enough that they are not caring about views or followers, they care about wins more than anything and that's the important part.
Considering the king basically owns them all, they will figure out a way to get money anyway so it is not about marketing the team, they just want to make sure they get all they can. There has been talks about sending the champions of this league to UCL as well, if that happens I am sure europa and conference would get some too, and if they can go there, without spending much, they will definitely achieve something bigger than other teams.
Without a doubt, some of you are right, for example I have started to think about that, you see I tell myself that also Arabs with the hiring of aglunso players who are very famous, do not want just that, because I think that they have enough money to show it off in anything, an example of them was in Qatar when the World Cup was something impressive, so much so that they didn't care about the ROI, they wanted to show the world how great they were, their country, their custom and everything they achieved, in addition to This was seen as a great attraction for football in Arab culture, in fact I personally had never been interested in this football because I saw African football as more interesting, but seeing that Saudi football began to have many good things, how the inside of a player as powerful as CR7, well that opened the doors to mauchas socsa, to many players and above all to world attention, well that is something that was noticed from leagues, also peisno from the point of view of growth Yes, the Arabs would say, if we bring to our countries people like them who have experience and other techniques, here our people can learn it.
They tried to do this in the same way in China, but they Couldn't contain it, but in the Arab countries things are different, so it Seems they are taking a chance on this, and if we apply logic to it, it may be that yes, things be in that sense, that is, if we are coordinating teams like these, Al Nassr, Al Hilal, who are bringing top-level players from Europe, then it is a good thing, they will learn a lot of local techniques and they will apply this to new generations, by bringing the best of the best from Europe they can learn and have that level, and that will make the difference, of course the litmus test will be for the next world to see how much the team of Saudi Arabia will have improved , because that is something that I am very aware of , I think that there will be many better things ,Better than what I saw in Qatar.