Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 618. (Read 118885 times)

I seem to have missed the news of this successful transfer and it doesn't feel like the process of recruiting Fabinho from Liverpool has also been fairly quick for Al-Ittihad. Fabinho's experience coupled with Kante's experience in midfield will make it easier for Al-Ittihad to win every game. Moreover, it looks like Benzema will be very spoiled by the sweet passes from these two midfielders.

In addition, it is true that Benzema is still very productive in matters of scoring goals and that is why it is likely that Al-Ittihad will be able to win the Saudi league title again next season. I'm still quite curious whether there will be a new wing as Benzema's duet partner later like what we often see when Benzema often does it with Vini at Real Madrid.

Finally added another European star player to follow in the footsteps of Cristiano Ronaldo, Fabinho did quite well at Liverpool for lia years. Of course, this will make Al Ittihad even tougher in defense by partnering with Kante. The top four positions in the SPL will be even more competitive.

Before the transfer window closes, it is predicted that there will be more players who will join, it will be interesting to wait for the next transfer surprise.

Al nassr is far superior compared with monastir. that's why al nassr can win against monastir easily. The gap is too big between both. Ronaldo was very happy caused by he was contributing a beautiful goal for monatsir. Nassr just need to build a better chemistry between the new players and club.

Brozovic, ronaldo, S fofana and then mane will make nassr gonna be stronger. That's very sad that if nassr was not able winning saudi pro league last season. I expect the different result for upcoming season.

It's caused by ronaldo must compete with its friend benzema to get saudi pro league next season. There will be so many things gonna happen very soon. Al nassr gonna face zamalek which is not a strong opponent.

I think that al nassr will be able to beat zamalek easily. Shabab was able beating zamalek and i think nassr can do that easily without a tough game against zamalek. I hope ronaldo will give us another goal against zamalek very soon.

I'm confident the club will go a long way this season. The Arab club champions cup will be decisive by the club with the highest points on the table, with Al-Nassr having a passive approach to the grand trip this season. Al Nassr defeated Monastir 4-1 in a spectacular victory; it was an easy game with complete control by Al-Nassr in the both halves. Cristiano Ronaldo scores his first goal of the season, assisting Al-Nassr to their first winning of the season. It's a long way down, but the club's actions would be competent and consistent, because they added quite quality player in the squad.

Another star player from Europe joined their league which is continuing to grow last few months since World Cup 2022 ending.

Fabinho and Kante will provide very good defensive power for Al Itihad as they are very good defensive midfielders. Fabinho can play as a central defender if the club has emergent need for that position, he can play temporarily at that position like he did many times in Liverpool.

They are the champions of the league and will protect the title in a new season. With their finished transfers so far, Benzema, Kante, Fabinho, they are going ahead of Al Nassr. With Kante and Fabinho, Al Itihad have better balance than Al Nassr that seems to focus too much on attacking with Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane. Anyway, these clubs will still be strongest candidates for the trophy in a coming season in Saudi Arabia.

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Fabinho officially become ittihad's player starting from now. Im very glad to see him decide to join in al ittihad instead of stay in liverpool. He has been picking the right choice by leaving from liverpool to join al ittihad. Fabinho gonna be in the same team with kante and benzema.
Benzema just makes all of ittihad fans are feeling amazed caused by he has been making a beautiful goal for al ittihad. It's good to see that ittihad has a powerful vision to add more and more great player to the club.

Fabinho gonna be playing in the same team with world-class player like kante and benzema. Im so happy to see him there. He can use all of his experience to help the club to win saudi pro league next season.
Ittihad has been winning SPL last season, it's now the time for this club to dominate the league for the upcoming seasons. Kante and benzema will become good team mates for him. I think fabinho gonna adapt easily in ittihad.

Clubs from Saudi Professional League with their deep pockets for player transfers and salary are changing the global transfer market. More players including star players from Europe who are playing for biggest clubs, want to join Saudi Professional League. It's hard and even impossible for big clubs in Europe to compete with Saudi Arabian clubs in play salary offers. They have to consider cost and benefit as well as their clubs' financial balance sheets while Saudi Arabian clubs don't have such concerns.

Months ago, only Cristiano Ronaldo in Saudi Professional League but now they already have dozen of star players in the league. More star players will join them and their league potentially will have big jump in quality.

I am concerning about how long will they be able to maintain these transfer and salary strategies? I believe they will be able to do it longer than Chinese clubs and their chance to succeed to enhance their league quality is bigger than Chinese Super League.

Saudi is just starting to get involved in European player transfers, so anything could happen.. It's caused by saudi gonna try that even harder than before to recruit more and best players that can push the name of this league. People were skeptical of Ronaldo's move, but the Saudi club's successful recruitment of players with high salaries has proven doubters wrong. I remind you that saudi has unlimited money from oil and various commodities. I think that more intervention gonna come from saudi club. European clubs find it hard to sign players because they have to compete with Saudi clubs and spend more money. Saudi makes everything become even harder these days.

For few seasons this isn't going to be an issue for the clubs that are much backed by the oil money. At some point there'll be financial problem, when more and more popular players sign contract with the clubs. Saudi Arabia government is much supportive in the progress of te league and that can keep things in an orderly manner. The prime objective the government have got is to make Saudi Arabia better place than having a overview of this being a oil land and full of deserts.

Sadio mane will be bringing in more attack to the Al Nassr side just as he did when he was playing for Liverpool. If Sadio mane plays half of what he played at Liverpool for Al Nassr, I don't think they'll be having issues winning games and defending from the front because that's the work of Sadio mane, back at Liverpool he was doing all the dirty works that Mo Salah and others couldn't do and since he'll be playing along side with Ronaldo, he'll be helping with the defending and the attacking. If I was their coach this is how I'll lineup the attacks, Sadio mane plays 7 and Talisca plays 10, Ronaldo plus 9 and maybe someone with good crossing legs plays 11.

This is why I was thinking Hakim's deals was going to go through as he would had been playing the 11 role. Let's not start asking for the coach to start giving home grown talent spot yet, maybe if they're winning he can bring them on because this season is going to be a very strong competition in SPL. Aren't you seeing the players other clubs are gathering. Al Nassr needs to put their best players out every game and having mane support Ronaldo with Talisca is going to be be a good collaboration. I don't expect anything less than 40+ goals from the three of them.

In a much as we want to see the Saudi Arabian League become one of the biggest and toughest leagues in the world, we must also not forget that there might be some future financial challenges considering the huge amount of money they've spent on bringing European based superstars to the Saudi league.
For a fact, the players are gonna bring unprecedented quality to the league but what I think should be a major concern is if the clubs that signed these players can continue to fund the players' wages in the future

The Saudi league would continue to survive and perhaps thrive not just for the next two seasons but many more seasons to come. I don’t also think it’s that much of a necessity to bring in European star players in order to survive. True, bringing in well known players from all around would definitely help in making the Saudi league more popular and probably get more people to watch and talk about it. But not having well known players wouldn’t make the league not to survive. It won’t just be as popular and watched as hoped.
Besides, the Saudis probably have enough money to keep signing European players and bringing them in. So you should not bother about the survival of the league. They would survive.

For goalkeepers it looks like Al Nassr will try to seduce De Gea in this transfer window. Because previously De Gea was often associated with Al Nassr after he ended his contract with Manchester United. I think the depth of Al Nassr squad is very strong at the moment because after Sadio Mane arrived their front line is strong enough.

For Al Ittihad FC they were able to win the previous two matches where Karim Benzema became a hero for Al Ittihad in beating his opponents. The presence of Benzema in the Al Ittihad Fc squad has had a pretty good impact on their front lines for next season.

They played a decent game against Monastir, but to be fair that wasn't really a team they should have trouble with neither, looked like Al-Nassr was a much better team to begin with. Plus there are still some positions that needs to improve, there are for some reason huge gaps between positions and I believe that if they are willing to spend this much money, they could spend just a little bit more and get those positions some good players. Between Telles, Brozovic, Fofana and Ronaldo (and of course Talisca who they already had) they are looking like a real good team but other teams are getting stars too, they really need to put some more emphasis on defense and goalkeeper for sure.

The fact is that as we know, Ronaldo is now more inclined to play as a center forward even though he can actually play in various positions. we can even refer to the Arab Club Champions Cup match, Luis Castro implemented a 4-2-3-1 pattern as I said before. the new coach prefers to play one centre-forward up front, and three players behind him to help when building attacks. in that match Talisca played as AM, two other European players such as Fofana and Brozovic played as double vipot. the final result of Al Nassr won a landslide victory, naturally because the team they were fighting against was not a strong team. but seeing from what Luis Castro has implemented, it is likely that Ronaldo will always be a center forward.

Now, Mane has been confirmed to be part of Al Nassr. you can be sure, Mane will fill the wing position. thus, this team will be stronger and more competitive, even though it would be even more ideal if Al Nassr brought in one more winger. but do not rule out, if the scenario you say can be applied by the coach. but if that's the scenario, ideally Al Nassr should play a local centre-forward. because, they have several young players who are in ST positions.
now the question is, will coach Al Nassr try to implement the scenario as you say. if so, maybe it will be more interesting and give their local young players a chance.

Its safe to say that both Messi and Ronaldo will go down in history as two of the greatest players of all time. Appreciating their individual strengths rather than making comparisons sounds like the proper approach. Keep in mind that every player has their own distinct play style, set of skills, and story. Ronaldo had a major impact in Italian Seria A thanks to his dogged dedication, whereas Messi was successful due to his innate ability. Due of his relative youth, Messi may yet possess some useful skills. But do we think Ronaldo is ready to admit that his playing days are over? We can only speculate. His enthusiasm is easily misunderstood as anger, but thats just how he plays. After all, who doesnt like a good soccer drama?

The Saudi league is indirectly sponsored by the Saudi government. The government has plans to make the league competitive and is also seeking support for future world cup hosting right. There was a report in May that the Saudi government is willing to invest about $20b in its clubs to help them attract the best players. Napoli will be willing to sell Osimhen for a good price because most Italian clubs are going through financial problems and they need money to stabilize their teams. But I doubt if the Nigerian striker will consider moving to Al-Hilal. He is a young player that has not achieved much and will be desperate to win at least a European competition. And Napoli will not force him to leave because they also need him to pursue their goals this season.

Messi is a very influential player. He has been a rival of Ronaldo and people like comparing. He is getting so much attention currently because he scored a beautiful goal in his first game with his new team. And his goal gave Inter Miami their first win in many games. I don't think any former European-based player has scored such a classic goal in the Saudi Professional League. Maybe when the league starts properly, we might start seeing quality games, and players like Benzema and others might start gaining attention.

Ok I can't really precisely recall what position Ronaldo used to play when he was part of the Juventus Turin team, but I thought that he used to play almost all of his games as a forward left wing striker or something like that. He is still fast but wasn't this one of the adjustments made by Al-Nassr to let him play the center-forward position most of the time since his speed slightly decreased?

His goal statistics have never been bad and if he played for five more years, I think the statistics would still be pretty much above average. His physical condition for a 38.5 years old guy is phenomenal. He has never really become more susceptible to injuries and he said himself that his plan is to play for many years to come. However, when he said that he was still in Europe and playing the Champions League. The transfer to Saudi Arabia might change his mind.

Saudi Arabia didn't have strong league years ago and football in this country was not developed too but after hiring these top European players, I think Saudi Arabia made the decision to develop their football and maybe in the years they can even have income from it because there is not more interest on watching the Saudi league game after this season.

I have to agree with Ronaldo effective move pave way for other players, they should be among top teams that bought all the available free and fully contracted players and it seems the oil money is still in excess because I don't quite understand Al-Hilal and all this money they are generously spending on players. Just today rumors that I read from a reliable source, (not Fabrizio Romano) that Al-Hilal has push two different offer for Osimhen to the team, that of $120m for a year and $140m for the second year, that's an amount that can change life forever but at the cost of his career because Osimhen is still very young.

Haven't look at how Saudi Arabia are having more numbers of old European team to the clubs. I still feel Messi got all the attention in MLS than what other players have did in Saudi Arabia, perhaps it's due to the fact that they are yet to score any goal but will they have the chance like that. Even Ronaldo has not score any goals in his last 3 matches, only Benzema has been doing fine in his team.