Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 64. (Read 118902 times)

How you come to the conclusion of the ego aspect of Cristiano is what still baffles me because what you call ego is actually self confidence to me. Cristiano is one of the most humble and committed player I have seen. To confirm this, tell me if you have ever seen Cristiana have problem with any of his coach both in league and national team. He has always been submissive and committed, facing the business of football with passion and dedication without sentiments. I believe he will fit into any team.

You are right. At that time he was also recovering from his injury. So he was not played at the beginning of his arrival at Al-Hilal. Because I remember the reason Al-hilal didn't play him at that time was because they wanted Neymar to be in his best condition. But unfortunately, when the international break was over, Neymar went to the Brazilian national team and competed there. Well, at first he was fine. And he even returned to Al-Hilal and was able to play well with Al-Hilal in several matches. but in the next international break he went back to the national team and he received a serious injury and has been absent until now.

Al-hilal didn't get many opportunities to play Neymar at that time. But indeed the attention of the football world is focused on Al-Hilal and the SPL. And actually we can see that Al-Hilal without Neymar is fine. but the problem is that Al-hilal wants to attract more people's attention to the SPL like Al-nassr did by bringing in Cristiano Ronaldo. The difference here is that we see Al-nassr actually becoming quite dependent on the presence of Cristiano Ronaldo. Because when Cristiano Ronaldo is absent, it turns out that Al-nassr always experiences a fairly clear decline in performance.

In theory, with his ability, Ronaldo should make Al Hilal stronger. But sometimes a player doesn't always fit with another team. You must remember when Ibrahimovic moved to Barcelona. At that time, everyone was very confident he will strengthen Barcelona attacking power. Unfortunately, he failed because his game style wasn't suitable with Barcelona tactics. This can happen with Ronaldo as well, it is not impossible that he may not fit with Al Hilal game style or the tactics applied by Al Hilal's coach.

It is amazing that Ronaldo could score more than 900 goals, it is 901 total goals now.
However, it is quite doubtful that he will score 1000 goals if he decided to retire in the next 1-2 years. I assume his chance to play with Portugal national team will be decreasing when he reaches 40 years old. Now, he is getting more often to sit on the bench, the coach tries to give a longer time to play for younger attackers.

Yep, Neymar's salary is higher than Mitrović's salary. It makes sense because Neymar was a top player, Mitrović was just an average player. Before Mitrović joined Al Hilal, he is not as popular as today. It is just beyond of our expectation that Mitrović performs impressively with Al Hilal. But now, Mitrović deserves to get higher salary than Neymar. Neymar actually should get lower salary because he mostly focuses on recovery, he very rarely plays. Well, with that big injury problem, I'm sure Al Hilal won't extend Neymar's contract. It expires next year, this surely will be the last season for Neymar.

I also think that AL Hilal is doing a good job as it is right now, they do not need any help and if Neymar makes a comeback, then he may actually ruin something that's working.

There is a saying that goes "if it ain't broke don't try to fix it" and I think Al Hilal is not broke right now, they are working and getting all the results they want for a long time now and I think if they somehow get Neymar to that team, it would not be fair to whoever is left out of the squad, because you need to remove one of the players and put Neymar in there, and I do not think that it would make sense to remove someone from a team that is getting the wins. In the end Neymar may actually hurt the team, and that's a risk they will have to take.

About Neymar and Al Hilal, I think the Arabs are making disastrous mistakes. I tried to research how much money Al Hilal would be earning by bringing in Neymar and I couldn't find that information. The club probably isn't earning anything. Even regarding the issue of attention, Neymar has a lot of followers on social media, he is always involved in controversies which attracts attention to him, but not to the club. And when you look at very important things like the salaries of all the Al Hilal players, you see shocking things:



https://www.sportysalaries.com/2024/09/al-hilal-sfc-players-salaries-2024-25.html

Neymar is earning a lot of money, he even earned much more than Aleksandar Mitrović, who is a player who currently helps the team much more than Neymar. The Arabs' decisions don't make sense. For example, I saw news that Al Hilal didn't register Neymar for the Saudi League, they will only do so in January. But they registered Neymar to play in the Asian Champions League. But it is already clear that Neymar can no longer play. I hope Al Hilal does not renew his contract in June next year.

The time when Al Hilal hired Neymar he was injured and he couldn't play for weeks in PSG but still they paid too much money to this player to have Neymar in Al Hilal while as you said he gets 600K per week but they didn't see anything from this player na he was usually out of the good form. But the good thing about Neymar was the attention they got.
After they hired Neymar in Al Hilal, they attracted too much attention from the Saudi League and this helped them a lot.  

I agree with the same idea. World's biggest star players are being brought into the club to increase the recognition. It was the continuation of this that Neymar was also brought in so that all eyes were on the Saudi league. But even if the intention of the familiar is successful, they are not getting Neymar in the game. The oft-injured player suffered a major setback in October last year from which he will need much more time to recover. Al Hilal have not been able to properly implement any opportunities with him at the club and there are doubts that he will be available in the future. I will agree that after paying this much money if it doesn't work then you can remove him and take over the club management.

in the 2022-2023 season, Ronaldo was the highest goal scorer in the soudi pro league with a whooping  33 goals in just 31 games plays.  Aleksandar Mitrovic only scored 26 goals which means that Ronaldo was 8 goals ahead of him.  Even in the last season, Ronaldo still beat Aleksandar Mitrovic in terms of numbers of goals and total contribution in the soudi pro league. Note that Ronaldo is 10 years older than Aleksandar Mitrovic and yet he's done this for himself and his club and you're still talking about him being arrogant. Remember that what makes Ronaldo who he his and what has helped him grow to this extent is because of the self motivation he constantly gives himself. Any team that can't cope with his personality shouldn't go for him and that's the same reason why it appears as though he struggled when he went back to Manchester United. From all indication, after his time at Al Nasir, he's likely going to retire from professional football and I doubt he will want to consider making a move to Al Nasir.

Give most of the players that are at Al hilal 35 years and see if they will perform close to what Ronaldo is still doing at 39. Obviously age has not been on his side and it's why he has not been too aggressive in front of goals like the prime Ronaldo but even at that, he still manages to score goals as though he's as young as any young players his prime. The result Ronaldo still have at his old age, a lot of players can't even measure up to at thier prime.

It seems like a good choice to choose both teams to score, the temporary odds based on the casino source Stake @1.48. Well, do you think this option is ideal, or will you choose Al Nassr with @1.88. Quite interesting odds, while Al Ahli with odds @3.50. Reviewing with this betting option, it seems that Al Nassr is still favored over the away team. What really concerns me is whether Al-Ahli will field its new arrivals. One of them is Ivan Toney, who will certainly be the most likely to be the lone striker if we refer to the pattern that is often applied by Matthias Jaissle. Unfortunately, I have no reference for the prediction of the line-up of these two teams. If I'm not mistaken, Otavi is injured. I didn't get a further report, but if he has to be absent, it means Luis Casto has to find an ideal partner for Brozovic as a pivot. But actually this match will be held in the next three days, maybe there will be an update regarding the odds and even the line-up of the players. I won't bet, but my prediction is that this match will be quite tough.

The Al Nassr vs Al Ahli match will be a match that is indeed worth watching, but to be honest it will be very difficult for us to guess who the winner will be in this match, although so far Al Nassr has been able to dominate over Al Ahli but considering Al Nassr performance is still not yet consistent at this time so of course all possibilities could happen in the match, defense line is still Al Nassr main problem at the moment so indeed BTTS would be a better option to do besides betting on the number of goals that will occur in the match later, Al Nassr sharpness is not supported with a their strong defense,  so it is very likely that Al Ahli, who relies on Riyad Mahrez and Ivan Toney, will be a big threat to Al Nassr in the match, I personally will try to bet on number goal over than 2 goals in that match.

Al Hilal signed Neymar mainly because of the publicity it will bring to the club and the league. I am saying this because they already know that he was an injury-prone player before he was bought. He was brought with a serious injury. Maybe they thought he wouldn't have had such a long injury, but they took a risk. Due to his long absence from football, his fans have continued to reduce, so the club is not benefiting anything from publicity or traffic. But they have to pay him about £600,000 per week, that's expensive for a playing that is doing nothing for the club. The club will gladly let him leave if he fails to recover and return back to full time action.       

I don't think so, Cristiano already fits Al-Nassr, remember that Cristiano has a big ego and that doesn't fit Al-Hilal's philosophy, look at Al-Hilal, even if they only have Mitrovic in the front line, they can still talk a lot with their performance. In fact, I'm sure they will take the SPL title again this season.

IMO, if Cristiano is at Al-Hilal, it will burden the team with his old age and declining performance. You can see the current top scorer in the SPL, the top one is Mitrovic and not Cristiano.

If what is stated in the odds really happens, then it is profitable. But the problem is that in football, statistics on paper cannot always happen. Al Nassr has a high chance of winning the match, but on the other hand, Al Ahli is also not a club that can be underestimated, they will come with the target of at least stealing 1 point from Al Nassr's headquarters.
The chance of a draw is also very high in this match in my opinion and it could really happen. Will we dare to take this risk or not. It should also be remembered that this will also depend on luck. Indeed, on paper we can know who is better looking at statistics and meeting records for example, but that does not fully guarantee.

that's a better choice. because Al Nassr is playing at home, of course, they have their own advantages. but with opponents who can be said to have a good game, maybe betting on one team to win will also be quite risky. both can score or maybe a draw can be obtained in this match. the simple reason is, Al Nassr actually didn't make many changes from last season in terms of performance. but hopefully, they can win. their victory will be good enough for a more interesting competition.

Yes, we must be grateful for having witnessed the best players directly in their golden era. In fact, I haven't seen any other young European players who can bring extraordinary feelings to every audience in a match. I remember how hyped we all were when Messi and CR7 would face each other on the field. That moment is very difficult to forget. And it has not been replaced until now.

In Europe, young talent is currently emerging. but the feelings and hype that Cr7 and Messi generated are truly unmatched. Even now SPL has become very famous because of the presence of CR7 here. And one extraordinary thing about CR7 is that he is still productive now at almost 40 years old. He is even still able to score goals in every match in the national league with the Portuguese national team.

Agree with this, europe top football doesnt have anymore that "soul" still the best one by far and nobody is gonna left to see the european football, but the new generations and the new goats are not even close to the feelings that Cristiano and Messi rivalry makes to all feels and where they put the rod.

Is sad but also we have to be grateful for live that time.

Al Ahli is not an easy opponent for Al Nasr, because Al Ahli also has a number of players who have very great skills, such as Firmino, Riyad Mahrez, and also Ivan Toney. So with this, Al Nasr really has to be careful when facing Al Ahli, especially if for example Ronaldo won't play for Al Nasr. Because according to the news circulating, Ronaldo will not play against Al Ahli, so Al Nasr really has to be serious in this match. Because if, for example, Al Nasr loses this match, I think what happened to Al Nasr last season will happen again. So in this match Al Nasr inevitably had to get the full 3 points. The reason is that currently Al Nasr is in 5th position in the Saudi Arabian League standings with only collecting 4 points. However, this will certainly not be easy for Al Nasr.

Apart from that, in this match, to be honest, I'm a little confident that Al Nasr can definitely win. However, it cannot be denied that I also have doubts about Al Nasr. Firstly because Ronaldo could not play in the match, secondly because Al Nasr drew against Al Raed. Because in essence, even if Ronaldo plays, Al Nasr has the opportunity to draw even against a weak team. Especially if, for example, Ronaldo doesn't play and his opponent is Al Ahli, who can be said to be stronger than Al Raed, in my opinion the chances of Al Nasr losing are also quite big in this match. So it is true that doing BTTS in this match is better than betting on one team winning.

Ronaldo moving to SPL side, Al Hilal and Messi for the MLS side, Inter Miami, the atmosphere in Europe is not longer the same. Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi, we're finally coming to end of an epic era for these GOATs in the modern age football. Ronaldo and Messi made football competitive and entertaining. Perhaps both of them are not playing in Europe, excluding themselves out for other ambitious moves does mean something.

Neymar is one of the player that catches good vibes and been with him is always entertaining and fun. He is seen as a prince that never became a King. He's one of the best player with enchanced footings on the ball, I admired his style of play but due to his high tension vulnerability to injuries, he's absolutely not hanging in the proper balance for Al Hilal.

We can only pray and hope that he can recover quickly and most importantly, I hope that he will no longer experience injuries after he recovers. Because there are quite a lot of stories of players getting injured again after they recovered from previous injuries. Luckily Neymar is not as old as Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi. He is still 32 years old and I think he still has a long way to go. Neymar is currently still missed, not only by us in the SPL but also by the Brazilian national team. Because after all, he is still needed not only at Al-Hilal but also in the national team.

The news is correct but the next 2 months for Neymar's recovery is only estimation from medical staffs with their assessments on a latest medical test on Neymar. However, with recovery process there are many uncontrollable factors and we already saw many players suddenly got a new injury during the process or shortly after first matches after their returns.

Let's wish Neymar the best because it's enjoyable to see he on field with his great skills. I know his time on field is counting down and he soon will be like other Brazilian players who lost their best physical forms after passing 30s.