Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 659. (Read 126972 times)

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.

The different is clear, China  did spent much but they never brought in the right players, and never developed well before making such transfer, they was no sustainable goal for the league, that's why it fails.

But the Saudi Arabia pro league will sustain for greater future, they brought in right players. And by three years coming they will be very competitive like the premiere league.

China didn't attract many stars in their time, moreover they didn't keep the tendency to lure players to their league and apparently then forgot about it altogether. If they had put more effort into it, they might have been able to achieve the same results as the Saudi League over time. I don't remember any stars moving to china other than Iniesta, alas, that's saying something

Of course it would be a great surprise if Cristiano Ronaldo will not get furious if they will still get the same result after having a bad run recently. Being the captain of the team, Ronaldo surely cannot hide his frustrations and disappointment after every loss because they have prepared for this Cup and even poured so much time just to get the team in shape to have a much better chance in the games. Still, we cannot even deny that they still need more experience because Ronaldo mainly in his age cannot carry a team anymore.

I bet that Mnae and Ronaldo would be playing close to each other without a doubt. Mane could be a little left side and Ronaldo would be just up there and Talisca would be behind them both. Think of it like it is still 3 players at the head, but instead of left center and right, it would mostly be left-center, center, and behind center. That is not common I know but if these are the players you have then you should do that.

If they get one great amazing player of this level to right side as well, then we are going to see them be amazing without a doubt. Remember all these players are a little too old, and that means we are talking about a situation where they may all fail, because they are too old to play well, or maybe they will do great, we still do not know.

Currently, Saudi Professional League is progressing towards great development. Because no one thought about the Saudi professional league in the past when Ronaldo appeared last year, but in the present time, it is on a huge improvement. A lot of stars have come from English clubs because of the big offers and facilities. And other clubs are trying hard to bring in the stars by making huge offers on Saudi superstars. And the King of Saudi is helping the clubs enough to expose them to the world so that the whole world recognizes Saudi clubs.

But the news is that the club that bought the star player is still in the same company, is that right?

Arab clubs buy players with an average age that is old, while young European players they still want to have a career there even though there are bigger offers for themselves, this is a love for football not that but on the other hand there is also thinking about money rather than playing in Europe.
We must know who in the 4 clubs that buy a lot of European players, are they able to finish as champions? Quite interesting actually.

Because Mbappe is still very young to play outside of European football, so the point is not to refuse big money. But obviously, it would be a shame if Mbappe left European football at such a young age. So in this case, only players who have entered the age of 30 have a great chance of being able to accept the offer to play in the Saudi Professional League. Also, not even just Mbappe refused the offer to play in Saudi, because there are still other players too like Lautaro Martinez who also refused to play in Saudi and maybe there are still a few other players too. So clearly, they are still prioritizing to build their careers better with good achievements in Europe and it seems that the reasons for refusal are not all related about money.