Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 580. (Read 127492 times)

The country's arrangement of the Saudi Premier League undoubtedly reveals that they are not thinking about their national team or football. They are now competing in the Football League. But if you consider it positively then you have to say that they have taken a good decision. They are having their league run by world famous players from which surely the players of that country can learn a lot. And who will get this benefit? Today, with players like Ronaldo, Neymar, if the Saudi players get a chance to play directly or enjoy their game, it is not less to catch their strategies. Now they get less opportunities but in the future their opportunities may increase. It is certainly not impossible to expect good things when exposed to good players.

As Saudi league is spending record amounts of money, they must be hoping for something better. Some football concern in Europe may be thinking something like China but Saudi can be said to be very successful already. In the meantime some others European coaches and team managers feel that this league is now becoming their biggest rival.

I didn't think that far ahead and looking at the prospects I saw a similar pattern to the previous China League which brought in top players from European leagues at fantastic prices and salaries but their popularity was only temporary.
And another reason, even though Saudi Arabia often participates in the World Cup, Saudi Arabia is not a country that has a football culture as strong as Europe.

Yes, I hope I'm not right. But in my opinion that is impossible to happen even though the Saudi League brings in a lot of top European players, and for Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Sadio Mane, Neymar Jr, they are not what they used to be and it's all because of money.

You missed something that Al Hilal is now at the top of the standings, they also have quite a lot of stars. There is Aleksandar Mitovic, although he is not as famous as other top players, this player has scored four goals in his three matches with Al Hilal. apart from that, they have Malcom and also Neymar. these two players, can rotate each other. Apart from that, there are several other players who are quite established and really understand this competition. for example, Michael and also several local players who have qualities above the average for local players from other teams.

If Al Nassr targets to win this competition trophy, they must overthrow their toughest rivals. Apart from that, Al Ittìhad as defending champions will defend their title. rumor has it, they want Salah to join and deepen their team squad. If Mo Salah is finally brought from Liverpool, Al Ittihad will increasingly become a very competitive team. Thus, it is not an easy matter for Ronaldo and his colleagues to win this trophy easily, especially now that they are 4 points behind the top of the standings.
if Al Nassr achieves minor results, then their rivals will widen the gap in points. So, like it or not, Luis Carlo has to bring his team to win game after game. thus, they will reduce the points gap from the top spot. that way, the competition will be more exciting.

The best players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Sadio Mane, Neymar Jr joined the Saudi league and took the league to unique heights. Thus, if Saudi clubs add good players from more European clubs in the next season, then European football will be under some threat.

The Saudi's know that it might take quite a long time to build their academy and based the fact that most of their youth players are not playing up to the standard of attracting other to their sports they decided to use the strategy of signing European players from top clubs to help attract viewers and so far it's payed off this season, because this new players they got are now making the league more competitive and interesting to watch as well as helping to build the youth side into future prospects, with their experience playing alongside them.
 The Saudi's are not like most South Americans that depend solely on future to elevate their families from poverty they're already financially stable need the experience of the top players to help build their league and the price they have to pay is using their financial capabilities to attract them into their league even though it means overspending, which is ongoing currently.

It is true and they know this. Bringing Ronaldo into the club was not to be dependent on him to win every game that would be too myopic of the club's  management. Rather what I think is that he is acting as a catalyst for the other teammates. To improve their performance to influence them to and we know that it is working. Ronaldo will not always be there, they want to birth more stars from the Arab world through him. As for Liverpool, Salah isn't going he has made his decision known.

Yes that's true, especially when they win against Argentina with a score of 2-1 it makes many people very surprised and happy, and I think it is a factor of optimism in the progress of the Saudi Arabian league to increase their strength by motivating their people to be interested in the soccer industry so brave pay a large fee to bring in world star players.

We will witness it in the next season, whether it will increase drastically its popularity because they have a lot of broadcast rights and demand demands from all corners of the world.


But usually the different places of the character of the community so do not have to use the same method, this kind of thing cannot be compared from both, as you say the standard of life in Saudi Arabia is different, but in my opinion they also get a different payment offer, humans have Eve want to be successful in their respective hobbies and humans also have high hopes or greed in this case, if the payments given by the soccer team are much more expensive in the academy or team they enter, it will be enough to motivate in my opinion.

In the next years, the Saudi league will grow to be a major league in which every aspiring young athlete from across the world will want to play and be featured. After the massive signing of Ronaldo and other elite players that follow suit, football is gradually turning a new direction to the Saudi league.

Very soon, the competition will be between the European leagues and the Saudi league, which players will not mind joining but will prioritise where they will be paid more, which is also not a bad idea because most of the players leaving home are looking for a big pay in football and a big name, which the Saudi league may be able to provide in the coming years.

I simply cannot imagine how football will get more interesting and competitive in terms of great players throughout history. The Saudi league exploited the oil-rich money they have to their advantage, and the results of the idea are already being achieved.

It seems, with several clubs in the Saudi Pro League buying star players, it is at least to improve the quality of their football as well and not just about improving a bad image. Because after all, if the Saudi Pro League had such a bad image then I'm sure, maybe Ronaldo also at that time would have rejected it. But what happened was that Ronaldo accepted and was followed by many other star players, including several coaches too. So yes, I personally think it is to improve the quality of their football, and not about repairing a bad image because I don't think there was a bad image before that destroyed their football.

It looks like other sports will follow later and perhaps the only focus of the Saudis at the moment is to provide a place for everyone who wants to watch all the stars in the same place. We know the magical power of football is deeply embedded in the minds of almost everyone in the world and the Saudis succeeded did it without hesitation by spending so much money to get autograph from famous european players. I think Saudi will monitor the development of the results from the start of this season and if it goes well then there will be other things that they have definitely prepared to further retain their audience.

Al nassr has so many super stars on its club. I think that the club is not always rely on him at this moment. It's unlikely to happen caused by there was also mane in the club. Nassr is still willing to add new player to its club as soon as possible.
Al ittihad may become the strongest competitor if salah will be coming there. Even though benzema has been giving awareness for him not to join but it's likely salah will agree. He will become the most expensive player in the world.

The murder of Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Turkey is still fresh in my memory. And reports have shown that the Crown Prince ordered the hit. There are also several other human right issues that the Kingdom want to hide. Sports is just a means of achieving the task of changing the tainted image of the country. It would be a blunder for FIFA to give the hosting right of the 2030 World Cup to Saudi Arabis after the problems that were encountered in Qatar.


Saudi clubs have not been prudent spenders so I doubt they will ever make a profit with such recklessness. The government is sponsoring four clubs and they have received funds to raid the European market. I don't think that the focus of the league is profit-making. Their aim is just to be recognized in the world that they have changed from their former strict religious beliefs. They want the world to see them as civilized and ready to connect with other cultures and beliefs.

@BRINIRHA Al-Nassr can’t rely on Ronaldo to win every match and other stars too need to step up and help the team win matches. Lastly what are you’ll thoughts will Salah make a move on the last day because if the new rumour is true then Liverpool can’t turn down such a huge amount and while it may derail their current season but it’ll help them improve their finances for the long run.

Money has the power to bring about change. Saudi Arabia is currently ranked only 54th in FIFA. It is indeed no better than Mali. The media did report that this was an Arab move to improve the bad image of their case.  There have been cases like the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 at the hands of Saudi agents, and the devastating war that began in Yemen in 2015, and you're probably right they have a target of hosting the 2030 world cup.

Saudi Arabia know if football is the most popular sport and they want to popularize or make more money through football. Obviously they have spend a lot money for buying many European players, but in the long term, they have a chance to make money.

I'm not really sure with the other sports, but if Saudi Arabia is successfully popularize their country through signing European players in football, I believe they will do same to the other sports.

Saudi doesn't have a strong basis in the football. Using its money to build the league has become the only way for the country to reach a higher level for its football. I have been also putting this as the main concern in this past which will be also kicking the local players from the club but there's no way to push it eevn higher other than use money as the main resources to make it happen.

I rarely see saudi player got big name. This is also the main reason saudi was prefer in buying the western player instead of developing their own players. We shall also go back to the main aim by saudi club to host 2030 world cup.
This is the only way to increase people's awareness to the saudi pro league. I remember when people considered the Saudi Pro League as a low-level league compared to other leagues like the Chinese League or even MLS..

Saudi is just trying to change that bad image owned by its football league.

I prefer to say that Al-Hilal have rediscovered the strength they lost last season. And actually Al-Hilal's superiority in the SPL is nothing strange. Because Al-Hilal is the club that has won the most titles in the SPL. Even Al-Hilal has won in 3 consecutive seasons. So I wouldn't be surprised if this season they will also be strong candidates to win the title.

Al-Nassr is indeed an interesting team and currently many people have suddenly become Al-Nassr fans because CR7 is in it. I personally idolize CR7 so ​​I am on Al-Nassr's side. But we must realize that CR7 is now 38 years old. So I always admire this player because he still has strong stamina at his age. In fact, he often played 90 minutes at Al-Nassr. If he's not as good as he used to be then that's normal. Even he can still play like now is already an extraordinary thing. Even CR7 I think has brought change and increased the popularity of the Arab League today. I think his name will go down in history not only in Europe but also in the Arab League.

It might work this way. For example, the young generation of Indian chess players that we are seeing now is the result of Anand's success fifteen years ago. But there are nuances: India is a very poor country with a huge population, and Saudi Arabia, in addition to having a small population, also has a high standard of living, so the success of football players (which, for example, in Brazil are equal to getting out of poverty) will not mean much to the Saudis.

Apart from that, Yannick Carrasco will be on the same team as Ever Banega, who has previously joined Al-Shabab since 2020. We know that the figure of Ever Banega is certainly familiar to our ears because he played for Inter and also Sevilla in European competitions. Another long-standing achievement is bringing Argentina to win the Olympic medal in 2008 with Lionel Messi.

I don't think Al-Shabab will be satisfied with just signing Yannick Carrasco and as you said the possibility of other signings for Al-Shabab will still be open as long as the summer transfer market has not closed for the saudi league. If you look at the previous defeat against Al-Nassr, it means that this time Al-Shabab must get a strong defender or a good goalkeeper to prevent this from happening again.

The Saudi League decided to use the power of money to build their teams because they also need popularity, which they could get by signing top players, which is what’s currently happening. Building their own players won’t really bring popularity to the league within the short period of time that they needed it, but as we all can see, since they signed Ronaldo, people started following the league, and the big signings that they made this season boosted their popularity, and even people that didn’t know much about the league before are beginning to follow the league due to the players that they signed. The money spent is not a waste because they are already achieving their aims. I can’t just imagine how Saudi league is going to be in the next few years to come.