Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 559. (Read 119070 times)

The transfer market value is estimation and with players who bought by Ah Hilal recently, transfer fees are overpaid and surely higher than estimated transfer market values.

30% lower than the transfer fees can be covered by some effects to the club and the whole league. Clubs from Saudi Professional League accept overpaid costs with hope that their clubs and league will be changed a lot after attracting many star players from Europe. They must look at Chinese Super League failure years ago to make their strategies better and more sustainable.

Joao Felix is too young but with difficulty he has in Europe, nearly fails to get a good position in many big clubs, there is possibility that he will agree offers from Saudi Arabia. I don't think Barcelona will get Joao Felix as they already learned big lesson with transfers of Griezman, Dembele and Coutinho.

Lately I've seen a lot of posts on social media related to Al Nassr, Ronaldo and Messi some of which compared the achievements and impact of the two players on the team but this time I found something unique, it's related to the Al Nassr vs Al Fateh match. If you see the screenshot below, Sadio Mane was surprised to see one of his teammates move to another team (Al Fateh) Mane didn't know that his teammate had a twin brother Ali Lajami (Al Nassr) and Qasim Al-Oujami (Al Fateh) I can't stop laughing when I see Mane expression of being surprised to see one of his teammates move to another club in a few minutes    I can imagine what was on his mind 

The more Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane play together for Al Nassr, the more they understand each other's movement when with the ball and off the ball and that'll definitely help them in connecting well and destroying their opponents in the league and in the Asian Champions League.
I think the two superstars shouldn't compete with each other on who plays better or scores more goals rather they should compliment each other by assisting each other to score goals if they really want to enjoy their stay in the Saudi club.

It's true, the competition to become the top scorer in the Saudi Pro League this season feels competitive with the presence of several star players like Benzema. Mane's presence can be a suitable partner for Ronaldo, apart from being able to provide assist support, Mane can also score goals for Al Nassr. The big win against Al Fateh is proof that the two of them are a suitable tandem.

Benzema, Fermino, Ronaldo, Mane and Neymar will compete to become the top scorer this season in the SPL, but currently Abderazak Hamdallah is still the provisional top scorer with 4 goals.

this collaboration between Ronaldo and Mane was seen after Mane was successfully recruited by Al Nassr and if in my opinion Benzema will indeed be a strong competitor to Ronaldo in this SPL but not necessarily Benzema can compete with Ronaldo and Mane because even though Benzema has good talent but he is also need other European players who can unite the chemistry with Benzema like Ronaldo and Mane.
matches in the SPL this season have become more competitive after star players entered the saudi arabia team which will attract the attention of its fans to be able to give encouragement to these European players and added Neymar who has now joined the SPL to make the competition tougher between teams in this league .

For a club in the Asian region that's incredible value generally players who play in the Asian League have a market value of no more than 5 million if any player has a market value of more than 5 million then he must have played in the Europa League. The only local player from Al Hilal who is the most expensive is Saud Abdulhamid with a market value of 2.8 million currently he is 24 years old so normally his market value is high compared to other local players.

By the way the market value is not the same as the transfer fee, almost all transfer fees are 30-60% higher than market value like Al Hilal who has spent €353 Million in this transfer window although its total market value is €258 it's 30% lower than the transfer fee. Joao Felix is rumored have the potential move to Al Hilal but it seems he is still considering an offer from Barcelona.

Star footballer Ronaldo has returned again after scoring a hat-trick against Al Fateh. He could not accept the defeat of the team in previous two consecutive matches. Because he is an asset not only to his own team but to the entire Saudi league. Fans expect goals from him. Anyway, leaving everything behind, Ronaldo and his team Al Nasr have done a great performance. With a 5-0 win, he seems to have erased the previous defeated. His hat-trick along with Sadio Mane's two goals gave the whole team a boost. No doubt they will perform better in the upcoming matches.

Al Hilal is a most successful club in Saudi Arabia but according to transfermarkt.com that is a trusted website, their squad's total market value is €258.95M.

Maybe you did not know about transfermarkt.com website. You can click here and sort the Market value column to see their player market values.

Most of the value is from recently bought players. Neymar €60M, Milinkovic-Savic €50M, Neves €40M, Malcom €30M, Mitrovic €28M, Koulibaly €15M, Bono €12M.

Ronaldo and Mane seem to be starting to understand how to play each other. Mane was able to provide an assist for Ronaldo and the balls Mane gave him were what he had always wanted. even in the previous season, Ronaldo had a little trouble because he did not get the support he wanted. especially now that there is competition from Benzema who is also enlivening the competition in the Saudi League. this gives Ronaldo its own competitiveness, and with the support of Mane, I think both of them will be even more productive.

he may be getting such numbers from this https://www.transfermarkt.com/al-hilal-riad/marktwertanalyse/verein/1114

It's based on the market value and it's not the actual value. I meant the market value can't be considered as a reliable data to determine the actual price from the players. I do agree with you if it must be more than it.

Bono was valued only around €12 millions which is far less compared with what al hilal paid for him to the sevilla which was around €21 millions.

For where did you got these valuations? Al Hilal is worth just €258 million? This might have been the case in 2020 or 2021, when they were having mostly Saudi players in their squad. The current valuation should be upwards of a billion Euros. A few months back, Paris Saint-Germain was valued at €3.2 billion. Manchester United is valued at $6 billion as of March 2023 by Forbes. Compared to these figures, I simply don't think that the numbers you have given for Al Hilal is closer to reality. Please check the source again, to see whether they are precise.

despite the victory of al - nassr in his game yesterday against al fateh, still in the table things are not well for al - nassr who has only 3 points against 9 points of his biggest rival, that means that al - nassr will need to pray that their opponent loses in 3 games and al - nassr wins in 3 games to be able to stay ahead of their biggest rival, and this season there are more teams that made big investments in new players and coach, so they only have 3 points is not a good thing, al - nassr will need to win in all the games they play ahead if they want to be champions this season

al - hilal plays tomorrow and probably without neymar, i say probably because i don't know, i haven't been to see news about this game yet, but look at the quick forecast without doing much analysis, i see it won't be an easy game, i say that because your opponent in the last 3 games they have not lost in any game, they will come into this game with a draw in their last game, so I will not be surprised if this game also has a draw, without neymar and jorge jesus will have to rely on available players, still not enough to win the league this season. something I can't understand is why al - hilal didn't make many signings and preferred to spend a lot of money with neymar

they could have managed to hire a lot of good players, they had the money for that, but strangely they didn't do that but they focused on bringing a very expensive player who is always injured, I don't honestly know what is the goal of al hilal in this and other seasons here forward, but if they think about winning the league with this squad, then I doubt very much that they will be able to do that, we will see in tomorrow's game how they will do, in my opinion it will be a very difficult game for them and a draw is the most likely to happen

I don't agree with you comparing these two teams with the money they spent, we know a team like Al Hilal may have spent more in this transfer window or even Al Ettifaq spent more than this team but still, this can't be the reason to say teams should win or lose just because they of the money they spent in this summer. There are many teams that spend more money but in the end, they don't get good results.
I think the wise move is to check the past results of both teams instead of the money they spent.

It would be really bad to to watch Al Nassr losing, probably not after they have signed these European players. Al Nassr revived the hope of their supporters when they thrashed their opponents. It was an easy game for the Knights of Najd, making every opportunities succeeding to grab a goal in the game. Winning their last game, 5 nil with a magnificent hattrick from Cristiano Ronaldo and a brace from Sadio Mané. Ronaldo got fire in him and anytime he unleashed his strength toward an attempt, he stands 80% of scoring a goal, while receiving an assits from his new teammates, Sadio Mané .

After losing their first two Saudi Pro League matches of the season, Al Nassr needed that win to regain the support of the club fans who were already thrown in to doubt on wether the club is ever gonna have a good season despite huge finances that was invested by the club management to sign European based players and they convincingly won the game in clinical fashion.
Cristiano Ronaldo once again has shown that despite his current age he still got all it takes to deliver incredible performances by scoring his 68th career hatrick last night. What a player

The European clubs were the biggest market for the Saudi clubs and since the ARAB clubs tournaments have gained traction lately a lot of money was spent on acquiring new players and the result of that is what we are seeing,  just like you mentioned,  Eaoruoean players that we're signed I to those Arabs clubs are indeed changing the face of the Saudi Arabia professional leagues in this season,  at least the competition is becoming more enjoyable and gaining traction with time.

Christina Ronaldo is one player who will always make a big positive change in any club he is playing for,  Al-Nassr went for him because they knew of his capacity to turn things around for the club while he spent his contract time with the club.

Another reason could be Al-Hilal being worth 258 million (200 without Neymar) and Al-Ettifaq being worth less than 50 million euro? That seems like 5 times (4 times without Neymar) bigger club to win the game and I believe that's quite understandable.

I still wouldn't give them 1.18 to be fair because we have seen in European competitions just recently that teams with much lower valuation could still get a draw or a win, and that's why it's difficult to say if it's 1.18 worthy or not, but I would totally give them 1.40 without a doubt, that is exactly what I thought it would be before the odds were clear, because 1.40 means clear winner and they are clear favorites without a doubt. They will win this game one way or another.

As Jorge Jesus said, if Al Hilal can only make his Neymar debut in mid-September. however, it is possible that it could be faster than that. referring to what you said, it is very natural that Al Hilal has a high probability. because after all, these two teams are different levels. Al Hilal is the top team in this competition, while Al Ettifaq is a mediocre team. well, let's refer to the H2H meeting of these two teams. from the meetings of these two teams, Al Hilal always dominated the victory than Al Ettifaq. it would be very reasonable, if Al Hilal is far more favored.
other than that, let's refer to the Al Hilal line-up. referring to Jorge Jesus, it seems he prefers the 4-2-3-1 system pattern. for the pivot, Al Hilal has Ruben Neves and his partner is Sergej Savic even though he was suspended for a red card against Al Raed. on the front lines, there are Al Dawsari, Malcon and Michael. This player, has quality when compared to the opposing team. for forward attackers, Al Hilal has Mitrovic. at least this team is quite competitive especially if Neymar has already made his debut.

Instead, we review from Al Ettifaq's side. since this team was under the tutelage of Steven Gerrard, Al Ettifaq had a pretty good match. in 3 matches, they won 2 of them and a draw. however, materially the players in Steven Gerrad's squad are below his opposing team Al Hilal. the only player who has a big name is Hederson, the rest are dominated by local players. as for players from outside, they are not very famous except for Moussa Dembelle. even then, he is not a big star. this match will be played at the Al Hilal headquarters, it is fitting that the home team is more favourite. So now the question is, can Steven Gerrard be able to keep up with Al Hilal's squad in the match, it's interesting for us to follow.

This is an individual achievement for Ronaldo, he can score a hattrick at the age of 38 years. Another fact is that Al Nassr is still behind in 10th place on the standings board for now, 6 points difference with Al Ittihad and Al Ahli. The match against Al Fateh was Al Nassr's first win in the SPL this season, next they will meet Al Shahab on August 30.

I think Al Nassr really needs a reliable playmaker to be able to keep up the rhythm of the game, and of course be able to supply the ball well for Ronaldo and Mane.