Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 462. (Read 128249 times)

I think this is the right decision taken by Al-Ittihad to fire coach Nuno Santos and however as defending champions they cannot continue to suffer from the series of bad results they have had. As one of the big teams in the Saudi league, Al-Ittihad must prove that they are still worthy of competing at the top of the standings with Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr, especially considering that their status is the defending champion, Al-Ittihad must immediately rise.

Maybe Al-Ittihad really has to choose the right coach and they can't lose money after making huge investments to bring in star players last summer. Indeed, there was quite a big dispute between Nuno Santos and Karim Benzema which made their relationship not good. Surely Al-Ittihad will protect its star players more and at the same time provide the coaches they want for the future.

CR7 had a fall out with Erik Ten Hag and he left the club and their was a tremendous improvement and most persons thought CR7 was the problem here, now Erik Ten Hag is having a fallout with another player and the team isn’t on winning streak, that’s worrisome as eyes and the media now all turned in to focus on head coach Erik Ten Hag, losing the dressing room is really a big problem for coaches and that could be beginning of ETH’s problem at Man United.

 Well I think Ronaldo made the right choice to leave Manchester United to the Saudi side where his impact is felt and he's loved by everyone in the league cause he's influenced them to be more popular across the world, I CR7 was still at united up till now he won't have been successful as he is currently at Al-Nassr and he's even earning a better salary than what he earned at united.

That sounds good. Neymar was useless. I would rather than terminate his contract then recruit salah from liverpool instead of giving him a chance to play in the club even longer. Neymar is always injured and he was a useless player being recruited by al hilal.
I hope that salah will be going to the al hilal. Losing salah that will make other team quite easy to beat liverpool in EPL. it's caused by salah was a playmaker owned by liverpool at this time.
I do support this plan by al hilal. The club needs to get salah. FSG will approve it as long as salah will be priced so high. Klopp can do nothing as long as al hilal has been offering worthy price for salah.
Al hilal is going to be the best team in the saudi pro league with salah on its club. I can imagine the combination between mitrovic and salah. That's gonna be a beast combination.

Salah's move can be considered a done deal, Saudi Arabia suits him for religious reasons and in general all parties except Liverpool wanted this move before the start of this season. I was surprised by another news - that it is possible that KDB will move to Saudi Arabia in the summer. He will turn 33 in the summer, he won everything he could with City and it looks like he needs to monetize his last years to the maximum. From all sides this is logical, but still it’s difficult for me to accept it, since this is also the passing of an entire era for the City.

Tallisca deserves to be a new superstar on al nassr. Getting ronaldo absent from the game is good enough as it was giving a chance for his teammate to shine. Tallisca now becomes a savior for PSG by making hatrick.
It doesn't even matter a lot whether ronaldo was playing or not as long as al nassr was winning the game and that's enough.

It makes us aware if there would be a new guy who was getting popular like tallisca. CR7 will be back again soon. Even though he always keeps his stamina but it doesn't mean he can't get sick.

Now Al Ittihad is not in a good situation at all and even if gets in better form after firing Nuno Santo, still Al Ittihad should pay too much money to this coach while he didn't have a good performance in Al Ittihad.
Al Ittihad should pay eight million dollars to Santo and they should pay all this money when their team is in sixth place at the table.

It would have been a horrible signal to the world of soccer if ten Hag had been sacked because Ronaldo wanted it. If they did that, Manchester United would have turned themselves into a funny club with no hierarchies at all.

But you can see that Ronaldo is doing the same at Al-Nassr, this guy is weird. He is one of the best at what he is doing, being a striker and someone who can make a difference ON the pitch, but he should refrain from telling the coaches what to do. He can become a coach himself after his career as a player, but until then he should respect other peoples' jobs.

I think there is no way around finding a replacement player for Salah because it is not about the if, but about then when in regards to a Salah transfer. He will leave the club at some point, but there are rumors that a club from Saudi Arabia offered him a contract with an empty field, so to say he was supposed to tell them how much he wants. Who knows whether that is the truth, but I believe that Salah could be a high interest target for them because he is also Muslim and I think he could become an iconic figure for the league because of the high level of mutual identification. So either way Liverpool has to be prepared for some significant change.

I am not sure about this. From what I heard, Mohammed Salah turned down a contract with Al Hilal a few months back? From what I heard, he was offered more than what Ronaldo is getting now, and still he was not interested. Now what happened all of a sudden? Is this news confirmed? Anyway they need him badly now. Neymar has been ruled out of this season after a lot of theatrics. Aleksandar Mitrović and Malcom are performing well, but they need someone like Salah to boost the attack.

Talisca plays an important role for Al Nassr even though they have Ronaldo and Mane, but still Talisca contribution is extraordinary after going through a period of suspension and again bringing victory to Al Nassr and with consistent performances and solid cooperation I am sure Al Nassr can catch up on points from Al Hilal and the upcoming match against Al Wahda is a little easier for Al Nassr to steal 3 points from the opposing team on the condition that Ronaldo and Talisca will appear in the match.

How can you say Mohammed Salah didn't in a good performance?
He is a player who has an important role at Liverpool, which is why when news spread a few months ago of his move to the Saudi Pro League, the Liverpool coach immediately denied it, and it is impossible for Al Hilal to want to buy him if Salah does not perform well at his current club.
Mohammed Salah at Liverpool if he doesn't score goals he will make assists, he has provided 8 goals and 4 assists for Liverpool this season and two goals in the European league.
Next season might be the time when Mohammed Salah moves from Liverpool, although it may not be because many things can happen, but if Al Hilal can get Salah then they will get a player who has a very big commitment to his club and is also quite far from injury, and not typical of a player who had bad acts, he could become a new idol in the Saudi Pro League if he really wants to move.

Talisca's performance has been extremely helpful to the club since his return from the red card he received the last time which includes the hat-trick he had in the previous match and other great goals he had made. But I also want you to also realize is that Ronaldo's presence all these while have brought more confidence to the team. Whenever he's around, the guys since to be more professional and hardworking to make more goals. That's the effect of having a star player like Ronaldo amongst your club.

Right, you are know how those of us who really hope to see CR7 play feel. And actually he has done his best in previous matches. So it's natural that he is tired and has to take a break. He is now almost 39 years old. And it seems CR7 also knows that the club will be fine even though he is absent from the match. Because Talisca and Mane have become extraordinary spearheads for Al-Nassr. Especially Talisca, who rarely wastes the opportunities she has in every match. Talisca did not play in several matches because of a red card. And when he returned he was able to make a hat trick. I think the Al-Nassr players this season have really made all Al-Nassr fans happy and satisfied with their performance.

For every football fan, missing CR7 in action is a heartbreaker. In the field, I was also keeping an eye out for him. But let's honor the man for his incredible endurance at 38 years old! It wears you out to play at maximum capacity every minute of the season. Additionally, our man needed that break to refuel after back-to-back games. Furthermore, the tactical layoff may indicate that he is fully committed to the next league games, which are vital for Al Nassr. Every point matters because they are vying for the title. My friend, it's all about the long game. Without a doubt, we'll see him shining shortly

In my personal opinion, Al Ittihad's move to fire Nuno Santos from the coaching chair could be said to be a very appropriate action. Although there are definitely some risks that must be faced. Because firing a coach in the middle of an ongoing competition could have a slight negative impact on the team. Because if Al Ittihad has found a new coach to replace Nuno Santos, then the coach will definitely have to adapt to the Al Ittihad players and the players will also have to adapt to the coach. Therefore, in the midst of the adaptation process, it will more or less hinder Al Ittihad in the current competition. So, the steps taken by Al Ittihad were indeed risky, but these actions were taken to improve the team's performance so that it could be more optimal and better.

Then I also read on a news site that Zidane was a strong candidate to replace Nuno Santo as the next Al Ittihad coach. The reason is, this was due to reasons aimed at Benzema and Kante.

Source: https://www.inews.id/amp/sport/soccer/zinedine-zidane-calon-pelatih-baru-al-ittihad-gantikan-nuno-espirito-santo-yang-dipecat

So if it is true, I am sure that Al Ittihad will definitely be able to bounce back from the current downturn. The reason is that Zidane, Benzema and Kante both come from France. So you can be sure their chemistry will be very good. Therefore, let's just wait for the decision and next steps that Al Ittihad will take

So that's what I like about the current Al-Nassr coach and the Al-Nassr players. They adapted to CR7's conditions. And CR7 also adapts to the conditions. So there is always a very good rhythm of play at Al-Nassr. Because everyone tries to understand each other. Mane and CR7 are also not selfish. They often did not impose themselves and preferred to pass to Talisca and to others who were more likely to score. And Talisca is also very comfortable with them. Isn't it very beautiful when we see a club where there is very minimal conflict or you could say that there is a good and harmonious relationship between the coach and his fellow players. So that the resonance between players is created well. So we can see Al-Nassr always playing comfortably. CR7 really understands the condition of his body, which is almost 39 years old. And his friends in the Al-nassr squad also understand it. I like the current condition of Al-Nassr.

You need to remember and need to be careful if you want to bet on this match because even though Al-Raed is only a club from the bottom of the points table, it will usually give a surprise when playing at home and I admit that choosing to bet on Al Shabab would make more sense but we must have other options to betting with a little less risk and I'm sure even if only few people believe what I say but look at another league match last week.
I predict Al-Raed still has a chance to win or withstand Al Shabab attack with a draw.

C. Ronaldo left MU last season and that made Ten Heg and the MU players look more comfortable. Because last season there was even an extraordinary improvement in the MU squad after C.Ronaldo left. But this season MU has experienced another very worrying decline. In fact, they just lost today to a team whose abilities I feel are below them. and now Ten Heg's position could be threatened there.

I am happy that C. Ronaldo left MU and came to Al-Nassr. At least here at the Al-Nassr club we can see C.Ronaldo playing more comfortably. Last season MU experienced a decline in performance and C.Ronaldo was blamed at MU because he was considered to have poor performance and had a conflict with Ten Heg and affected the MU squad for the worse. But now when MU slumps again they have no one to blame again. And only Ten Heg should be responsible there.

After the weak performance we saw from Nuno Santos during this season, he officially got fired from Al Ittihad.
Al Ittihad spent too much money during this season for this team and they bought many expensive players like Karim Benzema but this team hasn't gotten good results so far in this season.
It seems he also didn't have a good relationship with players in Al Ittihad like Benzema.



https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2023/11/8/saudi-pro-league-football-champions-al-ittihad-sack-coach-nuno-santo-over-poor-results-karim-benzema

After Neymar, now Al Hilal is near to signing a contract with Salah, he is currently playing for Liverpool but this player hasn't had a good performance so far. Salah was close to joining Al Ittihad during the summer but they failed and I don't think if they can hire another player during the winter but after the drama they had with Neymar now Al Hiala can hire Salah to have another superstar in their team.