Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 497. (Read 119228 times)

Actually, this is the first step they took, I'm sure they are already preparing for the next step in making a breakthrough as we know it today. Maybe in terms of popularity, it is very difficult to beat the popularity of leagues in Europe such as the Premier League, but what they are doing now is definitely making them more known to many people. And I'm sure even this forum didn't follow the SPL at first, but after this buzz we started to pay attention and started watching or even betting on SPL matches.

I don't see anything wrong with them popularising their championship with big money. Any PR campaign requires a huge amount of money, and they only had to spend really big money once - on Ronaldo. And after his move to the league, other big names started coming in, but for less money, but still huge for the football world, it's like a domino effect, and very positive.

Al Nassr is the most competitive team in this competition, when compared to the other 3 teams. they have Ronaldo, Sadio Mane, Otavio, Taiaca, Brozovic, Fotana, these players are quite reliable in every match they play. especially Ronaldo, he has colleagues who are able to provide services to him. So it would be very natural if Ronaldo was much more productive than last season. Last season, Ronaldo played 16 matches and was only able to score 14 goals. Ronaldo has only played 7 matches this season, but he has scored 9 goals. and that, has the potential to further increase his goal tally every time he plays match after match in this competition. It could be that this season Ronaldo will be the top scorer. Likewise with Mane, from his 7 matches he has contributed 6 goals in this league. Al Nassr, is quite productive in terms of scoring goals.

However, they also have competitors, Al Hilal who are no less productive and they have scored 21 goals in 7 matches. Al Hilal players are quite productive when it comes to scoring goals, especially if Neymar has been able to adapt well. Of course, this will add to the excitement of this competition. Now the two teams are only separated by 2 points, and the competition in the future will be even more intense.

Likewise with Al Ittihad, who are now at the top of the standings. What is certain is that it will not be easy for Ronaldo and Al Nassr to win the league trophy this season even though they have a competitive squad. because their competitors are also quite strong and great. I'm sure the fight for trophies this season will be more exciting than the previous season.

Ronaldo increasing the revenue of the league by 650% (even if this is just him last year and not all the stars they got this year) is normal because it was a league nobody even heard of. By comparison let me put it this way, this topic wasn't even created before he went there, it is not like he went to Spain back again and increased their revenue, we are talking about a league that didn't even had a topic here, obviously he would be very  big.

I mean even MLS was known just a little bit more, not really a lot more though, we knew it from Beckham back in the day and for a short sting Zlatan, so that sort of made sense but it was unknown too. All in all I would assume that Ronaldo is a huge name in sports world, so it was expected to have something like this.

For me there is nothing wrong with the referee's decision and I see everything is fine because the referee is wiser with his decision and this doesn't mean because I am an Al Nasr fan or not, but some of the scores that Ronaldo managed to achieve were no problem whatsoever and neither crossed the offside line.
But with what you said, I became curious why you said this about the referee problem? Meanwhile, everything went very well and Al Ahli's defeat was indeed a fate that had to be accepted when they visited Al Nasr with a narrow score and I also appreciate the performance of Al Ahli who were able to secure their position with a very narrow score.
So Al Ahli's defeat doesn't look bad because they were able to maintain the defense line so they didn't concede too many goals.

The news writes that after the game where Neymar received a yellow card (instead of a red one), the coach criticized his indiscipline in the locker room after the game (quite logical in my opinion). But after that, Neymar complained to the club owners and wants the coach to be fired! Can you imagine how arrogant this guy is? Poor Saudis, for the price of Neymar they could have bought 4-5 stars who would earn their salaries honestly, but instead they got an asshole who will drag the club to the bottom.

Yes indeed, Ronaldo managed to make two goals in the match against Al Ahli but Ronaldo did not make assists, while Talisca also managed to make two goals in the match but Talisca also managed to make assists in this match. With that result, it is certainly worthy for Talisca to be man of the match in this match, because Talisca managed to make a big contribution to the winning that Al Nassr got in this match. But yes, if we relate it to the list of top scorers, then of course Ronaldo has succeeded so far. So hopefully, Ronaldo will be able to maintain his position at the top of the top scorers in the Saudi Pro League this season, because last season Ronaldo failed to become the top scorer in the Saudi Pro League.

Well yes, obviusly the fanbase of Cristiano Ronaldo allways is gonna follow him and see his games, but if you want to be a sustainable league in the time you need to start to make a fanbase for the teams or the league, and Ronaldo doesnt have so much time left in his legs.

2 goals made by Ronaldo against Al Ahli. This also made An Nassr narrowly win by 4-3. This condition makes Ronaldo even further away from the temporary SPL Top scorer. Until week 7 Ronaldo has made 9 goals, much more productive than last year. In addition, Ronaldo proved he is still good enough if he has a partner who is able to provide services in the form of good passes. While the newly arrived Mane has also made 6 goals.

Ronaldo moving to the Saudi Pro League heped as a medium to attract other players to move to the SPL as well and it attracted multiple top players around the world to the league this season including the Ballon D'or winner Karim Benzema and let's not forget that even though ronaldo has the highest football fans, fans of other top footballer would continue viewing the match even though Ronaldo decides to retire from football.

 And I don't think he'll want to retire soon, maybe he'll stay for about two more years and before then more stars would be come into the league making it more interesting, of course most of these players came for the financial benefits but atleast their presence is making the league stronger and better for viewing to be entertained by it, it you watch the Asian cup final between Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal you'll understand, it was so interesting and attracted alot of viewers and comments on social media concerning the game.

 However it takes a gradual process to get to the top, and i love how the Saudi's are gradually setting a standard in their league and it even better than it was in the previous years currently and i believe they'll do better than the Chinese league who got crumbled due to the Covid 19 outbreak, corruption, financial issues etc we all know financial issues can be a problem to the Saudi League.

In Al Nassr they bought a palyer who can be a true leader for their team which is a big advantage for Ronaldo and his team, we all know Ronaldo is more than just a normal player for Al Nassr.
But Neymar is younger and he can palyer for a longer time, there is a chance for Ronaldo to get retired at the end of this season but Neymar can definitely palyer for more years.

most people are paying more attention to this league just because of ronaldo, that is, it is not because of the quality of the league, but because ronaldo has many fans who follow him wherever he goes, even this is happening with other very famous players like Neymar. These very famous players who went to play in Arabia, they have on their team a marketing manager, investment advisor and their career manager, and they must have made analyzes that at their age and in the teams they are on and where they could play at most and the salary they could earn and the assets they could earn, so they give advice to the player that it will be better if the player goes to play in Saudi Arabia

I will give an example of two cases: Neymar and healthy mane

neymar: at psg he played little because most of the time he was injured and at psg they were already tired of him because he was constantly involved in controversies in the newspapers, which created discomfort in the working environment of the psg team. No big European team wanted Neymar if he left PSG, in other words, Neymar's only choice was to go and play in Arabia, where he retired from European football, because I highly doubt he will ever play for a big European team again. so his end was to play in this league

healthy mane: he was the center of attention at liverpool, but greed blinded him and he went to bayern and there he had bad luck with an injury and not playing well, after bayern no other big team in europe would want him, so he didn't have it either choice and went to Arabia where his career would end when there was talk of returning to play in a big league in Europe.

future of this league in Saudi Arabia:

I spoke about neymar and healthy mane to show that these 2 players and all the others who were in the arab league were just for the money and not for any dream of winning some big individual prize and they were because at this moment with ronaldo in this league all the attention is in that league, so national teams will still call up players who are in that league. But, when Ronaldo retires, then no good player will leave a good team in Europe to go and play in that league, and all the news channels will stop talking a lot about that league. In other words, this league without Ronaldo is condemned to return to unpopularity, this is because the government of that country is a dictatorial government, there is no freedom in that country and soccer, just like any sport, evolves with less government interference

soccer is a business, the government only regulates the sector and lets the private sector have a free market, companies buy their shares in the teams or even buy the teams, the league does not get involved with politics and government interference, and so on. that evolves soccer. As long as the Saudi Arabian government puts money into certain teams and runs those teams, that won't work in the long term, China did that and it didn't work. That's not how a league evolves

Al-Wehda's victory yesterday was expected because they were statistically superior over Abha. They won four of their last five matches, all of which they played together, whereas Abha only won one. Al-Wehda have a winning chance based on their past five match statistics and their current league performance, and they won yesterday to move to seventh place in the table.

According to their constant performance, they have the squad strength to stay in the midtable; they only lose away to teams that are not at the top of the table and also lose to the top teams. They are good at home against other average teams, but their squad strength lags behind Al-Nasar and other major teams that have spent a lot of money on transfers, but they will not finish last; they may finish in the middle.

Although I also thought the same thing when I heard club Al-Nassr. So what I thought of was Cristiano Ronaldo. But lately I have also become hopeful that Al-Nassr will even win even if Cristiano Ronaldo is not playing. Because I think many people here think they want to see Cristiano Ronaldo lift the trophy in the Saudi Pro League. Last season Al-Nassr failed. I hope this season Al-Nassr must be successful. Although currently Al-Nassr is 3 points behind Al-ittihad. But if Al-Nassr continue to maintain their best form and keep winning matches then they will definitely make it to the top in the end.

What should the Saudi League need after making such a big transfer? I just watched Al Nassr's match against Al Ahli which was very interesting because both of them tried to score goals to get points. From the video highlights, the Al Nassr vs Al Ahli match was very hot in tempo and in my opinion the game of both teams was more interesting than La Liga and the playing style was faster than Serie A and was similar to the playing style of the English Premier League.

Apart from the fast game with a tight tempo, I am interested in the referee who officiates every match in the Saudi Pro League even though there is news that the Al Ahli coach is disappointed with the referee who officiates in this big match.

I don't even think people would stop to watch it if the previous game was a boring game. I remind you ronaldo has the biggest fanbase in the world. There would still be thousands of his fans were watching him to play.
The fans are only willing to see their superstars in action.  

Indeed, this is very surprising. The steps taken by Arab clubs who dared to pay many times more to bring in European star players have indeed received quite mixed responses. Some say it was a bad move. And there are those who also think that the Arab League's steps are brilliant.

I personally think that the Arab League's move to bring in many European star players is also a very genius move. They fish with big bait to get bigger fish.

In fact, you are right that now the Arab League has even been broadcast in almost 140 countries after Cristiano Ronaldo's arrival at Al-Nassr. And according to one of the news stories and Twitter that I read, the Arab League saw an increase in revenue of up to 630%. I think this is not a joke. And this is really a big advantage that the Arab side gets without even having to wait long. There is no doubt that Arabs are good at business.
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Come on guys, you can understand more of what I said before. I said that they throw money "when" there is no impact for their league, and here what they do has a positive impact and that is from various things one of which is popularity.
It's part of the process, and I would consider it a very natural thing when money is the first step to doing something bigger. Moreover, they have the ability, yes we know they are rich entrepreneurs who are already known to many people.


Yes, it is true that the Arabs are a nation that is good at trading and investing, I agree about that. I also heard a lot of history in the past that is remarkable from this nation.
Football has now become a business field, so it's no wonder when many rich people flock to start entering the world of football.
Yes it happened after they brought Cristiano Ronaldo, with just one person it has brought a lot of stations scrambling for broadcasting rights to broadcast SPL matches, especially now when it is not just one person, but many popular players who enter and join SPL clubs.

Yesterday Al-Wehda also won decisively against Abha with a score of 4-0 without reply. If we look at the results of this match and look at the standings board indirectly, Al-Wehda is stalking Al-Nassr and also Al-Ahli with a distance of 3 points. Seeing Al-Wehda's journey at the start of this season, which had a fairly consistent performance, means they have good enough capital not to finish at the bottom of the table again. However, for a mediocre Saudi League team, this result is very good as a consideration so that they do not fall into the red zone. However, Al-Wehda also cannot be so calm considering that next week they will face Al-Fateh, who are currently right below them and only 1 point behind.

At the start of this season Al Ahli performed quite impressively and could be said to be very good because they showed consistent progress and in the last 3 seasons alone Al Ahli experienced a downturn so for this season perhaps they will rise and return to success and become one of the strongest for the Saudi Pro League.

In yesterday match everyone would have known that Al Nassr would be superior and had a big chance of winning over Al Ahli and it was true that Al Nassr won even though Al Ahli also tried hard to equalize but they failed until the final minute.

Now Al Nassr is getting better at improving its standings and only has a few points difference from the teams above it for Ittihad FC alone it is only 3 points different from Al Nassr and in the next few matches Al Nassr can get 2nd or 3rd position if successful get another win.