Al Hilal knew that the Brazilian player was injury-prone, yet they went ahead to sign him. It is assumed that the club had some other reasons for signing Neymar Jr. Publicity might be another major reason since the Saudi Professional League needed all the attention to compete with other major leagues. On the pitch, he has not contributed much; maybe his influence has brought some level of publicity to the league. Based on reports, Neymar might recover from his current knee injury by the end of this month. The club needs his skills and experience to continue its dominance of the Gulf League.
Definitely, the league needed to be publicized and they knew bringing in as many stars as possible would take them to some level and it did. They wanted to add the likes of Mbappe as well but it will be difficult to bring in young players than it will be for older ones m, Neymar had already spent quite some time in Europe and he was near his retirement days already so it was easier to bring him.
Neymar was probably useless throughout last season, spending so much money on him but added nothing to their success, i believe publicity was the only he offered them.
I don't think the current coach deserves to continue managing Al Nassr. It seems he can't make any improvement on the Al Nassr performance. Why Al Nassr doesn't try to hire a top European coach? There should be some European coaches who want to manage Al Nassr if Al Nassr wants to make an interesting offer.
Al Nassr are not doing badly, they are playing well they were just probably not as good as Al Hilal because they still had defense issues which i believe if they are able to strengthen their defense they should be able to challenge Al Hilal. The coach has done his best and I don’t think it’s his fault, he should be given another chance to improve his team before signing a new coach.