Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 45. (Read 118843 times)

Saudi Arab is an oil producing country and is very rich, so the question is that they won't be able to pay more to the players is out of the question as they have ample money to give it to the players to keep the league running.
Ronaldo coming to play this league was the first success for this league and they should focus on getting more better players to this league even if they have to pay more.

Also if the rewards for winning the matches are increased and individual player performances are rewarded with money, i am sure the players will be more keen to show better performance and hence we see more quality football in this league. Yes, it is only the money that is required and will keep this league running for long term.

I am not saying that Ronaldo is their problem. But I think that Al Hilal has a far more balanced team. Their defense was by far the best and regardless of Ronaldo scoring so much for Al Nassr, Al Hilal still scored one goal more than Al Nassr in total. They had about the same strength in attack, but Al Hilal conceded about half as many goals as Al Nassr. That is why bringing in great strikers is all nice, but the balance was neglected. Al Hilal may not have a Ronaldo in their attacking line, but they have several good defenders.

Al Hilal is so strong, it seems like they deserves to be in a more competitive league, in fact if in any time the "superliga" was amde with teams from other locations outside europe, i really think Al Hilala is gonna be one of that teams. THey are winning everything here with ease. And the otehr teams keep buying and buying more and more players without any sucees.

This Saudi strategy is not something that will last long without failing. So far, Ronaldo is serving as a bridge for more players to accept playing in this league, and since the Arabs are offering a lot of money to the players who accept playing in this league, so for now everything is fine. But in this league, the only motivation the players have is the money they earn. They are not striving to win individual awards, they are not striving to be famous, so when the day comes that Ronaldo retires and the Arabs no longer have much money to pay the players' high salaries, the league will die, it will go back to what it was before Ronaldo appeared.

It is different from what has been happening in Europe. For example, a Liverpool player earns a lower salary than Ronaldo, but he is playing with the goal of being recognized by other big teams in Europe. When he plays in the European Champions League, he feels more confident that he needs to play very well to win some award. So he is not playing just for the money, it is more than that. He plays to gain prestige.

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Al Hilal is unstoppable

It turns out it is incredibly tough to explain anything to you. But let's make it very simple: we'll see how many players from Saudi Arabia conquer the top leagues in Europe in the next ten years. According to you, grandpas like Ronaldo and Benzema make everyone better. Ok, if that is your point, then we'll just have to wait and see.

Just to let you know, what the Saudis are doing is called greenwashing. When they bring in former superstars like Ronaldo, it legitimizes their actions in other areas of life among the fan community of these superstars because those fans think if "my beloved Cristiano" goes to Saudi Arabia, then it can't be all that bad. Think about that and maybe do some research. Good luck and enjoy.

Their Arab governments built a very good reputation for football in Arabia. They started by bringing in legendary players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, followed by Benzema, Neymar, Firminho and many more, even some Man City and Chelsea players and also Aston Villa. The point is that a lot of players have been brought in. And I think they do it for more than just popularity. But to provide experience and lessons to local players in Arabia so they are better able to compete with European players. And I see the development of the players getting better after the SPL brought in many European players.

And I hope everyone doesn't forget that many of the big clubs in Europe are also owned by Arab businessmen and rich Arab people. Let's take a look at how many clubs playing in the UCL currently are also owned by Arabs. It proves that if they intend to get more players to come then they can do it. Because there are clubs in the Premier League and La Liga that already belong to them. I am always amazed by the way they do business. And I think they also understand that the SPL will slowly progress and its reputation will continue to increase. Even though it takes time, they already know that. And currently hundreds of countries broadcast SPL. So I think the SPL can no longer be underestimated.

One of the best in Asia, but not at all comparable to any European league and do you know what great Japanese talents do? They leave Japan. They play in Europe. The charisma the European top leagues have developed over time will ensure that the best players in the world will go there.

It's like the NBA. Of course other countries can try to invest in basketball, but do you really believe that American top talents will start leaving the United States when they have the chance to play there? You are talking about youth academies, but it is not enough for Saudi Arabia to do it. You need international competition because that is what the people want to watch and what the players want to achieve. The Bundesliga couldn't be as great without the top leagues from other countries. You can't turn Saudi Arabia into one of the best leagues in the world if other Asian leagues aren't also the best leagues of the world.

If a Japanese top player wants to play with or against Mbappe and Haaland, what is he going to do? Hope that Mbappe and Haaland go to Japan? It is more complex than just shoving money into a national league. The UEFA is an empire, and the countries are cooperating castles and the competition is a deal they make in order to offer the best product to the people. But you know, people will keep believing that buying retired Ronaldos will turn the Saudi Pro League into the new centre of attention. Pretty funny.

Saudi Professional League are building and it's not true to say they will fail. They need to do more especially things in youth academies to grow up their home grown talented players who will be future of the league and their national team. If Saudi Arabia can invest into their youth academies better and in long term, they can get massive success like Japan. We knew that Japan started their ambitious plan with a Brazilian player Zico and after about 3 decades, we can see how their Japanese League 1 and Japanese player quality are now. Their league is one of best, or can say the best in Asia continent and Japanese players now can play at world class level and are key players in big clubs too.

The Saudi Professional League is severely limited due to the simple fact that they are not part of the UEFA. You claim that they become more and more famous in the end. This is not the decisive metric. The decisive metric is where the people want to spend their money for broadcasting and other things. The UEFA has the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, and many other leagues are still better than the Saudi Pro League. Let's say popularity is a cake that can actually grow. If the Saudi Pro League gets major attention from 5% of the people in the world, do you think that they will draw attention away from UEFA competitions ever? Why? Who are going to be the opponents for teams from the Saudi Pro League? Where is all the hype gone that Ronaldo created for a moment?

Many players decided against going to Saudi Arabia despite amazing offers. Everyone wants to see Real Madrid vs. Barcelona or Manchester City vs. Bayern Munich. Who wants to see Central Coast vs. Buriram United? The people from there yes, but the people from there also want to see Real Madrid vs. Barcelona while the Barca and Real fans do not want to see the games from the AFC Champions League.

The UEFA is so far ahead that no matter what they do in the Asian area, they won't close the gap at all for the next five decades. Only if a dozen states decide to take tons of money and pimp their national leagues. But they would still have to convince South American and European players to go there. It's not enough to get some almost retired players like Ronaldo and some money grabbers. They would need the next Messi, Mbappe, Modric, Zidane, Robben, Ribery, Maldini, Buffon etc. That's when people from all over the world would start watching those games on a regular basis. Now it was only short term hype because of Ronaldo.

With the current performance of Al Hilal it looks like things are getting exciting about their journey into this season because they are having the best attack which is giving them results consistently, and they are having wins without any challenges Metrovic is having 8 goals from just 5 games which is giving all how he is exceptional in this season for his team.

Al Ittihad is chasing them, but we will have good competition between these three top clubs in coming weeks because now they are having well balance and all are looking for win Pioli is having good impact on Al Nassr with Ronaldo is also doing good even now age factor is having good impression on his performance but still he is having 4 goals which is not bad for any player with the age of 40 most chances we will be having extension in his contract which could be beneficial for the both Saudi Pro League and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Ronaldo is still 39 years old, he isn't 40 yet.  
In the match against Al Wehda, Ronaldo scored a single goal from penalty kick. It is good for Ronaldo, he expects to score 1000 goals. If he continues to play above 40 years old, I think it is not impossible to reach a record of 1000 goals.

You're right. Pioli has won 3 matches in 3 matches. He did something impressive since he worked with Al Nassr team. I believe he has the capability to improve the performance of Al Nassr because he has a lot of experience managing some big teams such as AC Milan, Inter Milan, Lazio, Bologna, and Fiorentina. But to win SPL trophy, it is not something easy because Al Nassr has a very strong competitor (Al Hilal).

He was the top scorer last season. It was the most productive season for Ronaldo. But this season looks like very difficult to be the top scorer since Mitrović and Benzema become very productive. Meanwhile Ronaldo is decreasing its productivity in scoring goals.

That's what some clubs have done there so the Saudi league is becoming more known to many people, whereas before it was not in the limelight at all. The impact of Ronaldo's arrival is undeniable so the league is becoming more famous because even though there are a lot of European players coming there, he gave something more. Ronaldo managed to bring the Arab Champions League to Al Nassr and this is a title they have never won before and this is a proud history when Ronaldo was present in the Saudi Arabian League.

Today on 29th September, we are having Super Sunday for the soccer fans with too many games around many top leagues but here in Saudi Pro League we are having three games for the 5th round first game is going to player between bottom side Al Fayha vs Al Riyadh as home team is looking for their first win while Al Riyadh is looking for staying into middle of the league table.

After this we will have two more games Al Taawon is hosting inform Al Ettifaq which have good start of their season but have lost in last game against Al Nassr now they are looking for themselves into better spot for having win in this game last game is going to play between Al Shabad vs Al Raed as home clubs is looking for 4th consecutive win and keeping themselves into top spots it's going to be good Sunday for the fans here in Saudi Arab.

The importance of watching the match until the end so that your feelings become even more intense Ittihad is a Saudi League club, it is not easy for other clubs to beat them so we just need to believe that Al Ittihad can do their job well and don't be prejudiced when the team has only played in the middle of the game because they still have plenty of time to recover and make a comeback. Although Al Ittihad was 1 goal behind in the first half, it did not shake their spirits at all and Karim Benzema managed to equalize after the second half started in the 4th minute to reply to Al Khaleej's goal and finally the first goal became the spirit of other players to create additional goals in order to achieve victory.

Cristiano Ronaldo was also in a very good form last season as he scored the most number of goals in the Saudi Pro League but it didn't stop his team from losing the league title to Al Hilal.  The problem of Al Nassr isn't Cristiano Ronaldo and the earlier they start winning games especially against big teams like Al Hilal that they failed to beat last season the better for them in their quest to win a major title this season

40 years old Cristiano Ronaldo is trying to have few historic achievements so Pioli is giving him right things as he not brings him for the Kings Cup game now against Al Wehda he was on pitch for the 90 minutes which is good workout by this legendary player even not able to score field goal but still having name in scorers list through penalty goal and increase his tally of goals for having first player in soccer history with 1000 goals.

We have third win for the Al Nassr and Pioli in this game with their performance and defense both are having good improvement now they need consistency which keep them for the title race and having good chance of winning trophies in this season after having terrible last season.

You are having some mistake because the names which you posted these all joined Saudi Pro League after the Cristiano Ronaldo with he was game changer for this league and just because of his influence we have huge development in this league specially their fan base increase amazingly, and now they are having good number and good quality as well which is helping them for bringing more quality players and other staff for this league.

They are having good vision for future of this league and soccer in Saudi Arab because their biggest achievement is having rights for the hosting of soccer world cup in 2034 which is also going to have good impact in soccer in this region.

And it will remain like that for a while as Al Hilal is making no mistakes whatsoever. They keep winning and winning and Al Nassr is dropping points here and there and that is enough to not win the title. Everyone thought that Al Nassr is going to be a superpower because of Mane and Ronaldo, but the reality is that they are not. For some reason it is still Al Hilal who is the superpower in the Saudi Professional League.

Now what does everyone think about Ronaldo, will he extend his contract one more time for a lot of money or does he realize that Saudi Arabia is not the place for great victories?

Not only it wasn't just "not well known" but it wasn't known at all, hell even right now there aren't that many fans on the stands and I think it's clear that we are going to make sure that we are dealing with something that is taking a bit of time for them to have this kind of result. So, the best way to move forward is the fact that Ronaldo and similar level of famous players should be bought.

There aren't any player as famous as Ronaldo of course, but you can get a few of them together to make one I guess. They are spending insane amount of money, over a billion, for the salaries of the league and that is why

I think that we are going to end up with Saudi league getting more and more famous in the end. One sad note that Ronaldo came in here and then couldn't win the title, that is looking like the worst part, he deserved to win one, he scored so many goals and did what he had to do but unfortunately they couldn't win a title and because of that he might actually retire without a title here. I mean he won that Asian cup whatever it was, but he didn't win any league titles and that must have felt quite bad for him as well. I think he could do much better on the long run if Al Hilal wasn't this good.

Although Al Nassr has been in the 2nd position for the past few seasons, they have repeatedly tried and failed to take the 1st position. Even though they are currently in the 3rd position this season, when a match is won by them, it creates a different feeling among the fans. When Al Nassr wins, his supporters win just like Ronaldo wins. Al Nassr won 2-0 against Al Wehda in the last match, which they desperately needed at this moment to fulfill their dream. The gap between 1st,2nd and 3rd placed teams is 1 point each. Everyone hopes that Al Nassr will perform well in the next match. Ronaldo is getting back into form and hopefully he will score in the next match as well. The team tries hard to surpass Al Hilal, the best team of the moment.

Most of the betters have feeling this is free money because Al Ittihad playing at home against Al Khaleej which is having no win last three games but as we have first goal from them in this game, and they were able to keep things on good level because Al Ittihad players were lazy in response so things gone into trouble for them but after 49 minutes we are having good comeback as they scored 4 goals and having good win which bring them to the top of league table.

All players done good job, and they bring their team back into fight for the title race after having defeat against defending champions Al Hilal which is going to visit Al Kholood for their next game after few hours in other games we have good third win for the Stefano Pioli and newly promoted side Al Qadisiya give surprising defeat to Al Ahli which bring Tony Ivan from Brentford for having good attack and good end of this season.