Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 677. (Read 126726 times)

It is very clear, I see the direction of the goals planned by Al-Ahli in recruiting Europe's top players. before, they brought in Firmino, then they had the intention of bringing in Sadio Mane. Unfortunately, the player doesn't seem interested. in the end, Al Ahli made his choice on Allan Saint-Maximin. ideally, these three players have their respective positions, the coach seems to have participated in the recruitment of the player. it could be, there is a rotation carried out by the coach of the Al-Ahli team. The point is, both Firmino and Alan Maximin can swap positions with each other.
IMO, if I refer to the coach's track record, he prefers to use the 4-2-3-1 pattern. but with the presence of these three top European players, the coach has many options to use his system. a common formation, with a 4-3-3 pattern.

Well, ideally, as you say. that this team still needs other newcomers, at least they have to recruit 4 more players. for both midfielders and defenders. thus, this team will be more competitive and ready to compete with other strong teams. btw, most of the Al-Ahli squad is dominated by local players. if they want to compete in the race for trophies, the club can't half-heartedly bring in other players. like it or not, they have to target several other players to add to the team.

Sadio Mane is only 31 years old. I think he should go to SPL after playing a few more seasons in Europe. Of course, if Al Nassr makes him an offer he can't refuse, he'll go to SPL too. However, Ronaldo transferred to this league at the age of 37 and Benzema at the age of 35. So, for Sadio Mane, SPL may be a bit of an early choice. I'm sure there are many teams in Europe where he could get a contract. I'm also sure he can complete his contract at Bayern Munich if he agrees to remain a substitute. He will make a difficult choice in terms of his career. If he goes next to Ronaldo, he will make good money and play the starting 11 every game, but he will complete his football career to a large extent.

I won't advise Mane to go to Al Nassr if he decides to leave Bayern because there his career will drop because Ronaldo is there and we all know that he's a selfish player that like making everything all about him and since they both play the same positions, you'd find that the coach will always bench him. To be honest, I don't see much impact he's having at the club as age is catching up with the Portuguese star and he's not performing like he used to ten years back.

Another thing he (Ronaldo) lacks is the ability to mark a player one on one, seeing his flop with DiMaria in their game with Benfica as an example,  all he excels at is being able to score but for some time now he's finding that a bit hard to do. Mane can do better than him but will the Ronaldo effect allow him shine at the club is another thing to be considered. Instead, I'd advise Mane to go for any other European clubs that might fully appreciate his services like the likes of Chelsea.

Al-Nassr is recruiting European players again and this time it is Alex Telles from Manchester United who has reached a verbal agreement and is just waiting for the documents at the end of this week. Apart from that, Manchester United and Al-Nassr are also discussing the potential of Eric Bailly as the next transfer. However, in the transfer of Eric Bailly, it is stated that Fulham and Al-Ettifaq are also interested in getting him. Now the complicated situation is in Eric Bailley's choice whether he will stay in the English premier league or join one of the Saudi league teams. I think the saudi league teams are crazy they keep bringing in European players and maybe we will see more players coming in.

Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1682415819362295809

If al nassr was offering such price and bayern will never ever try to sell mane to the al nassr. The latest news said bayern has even increased mane's price which was from 20 millions to the 32 millions. That offer was not even a half from the new price tag already given by bayern. Al nassr will never able to get him until the club will agree to pay at least 32 millions for him. The talk is still going on and football is very dynamic. Any change can come up anytime without being predicted. I would like to see al nassr to increase its offer for mane. Al nassr was able paying a lot of salary for ronaldo. It will not be so difficult if nassr will buy mane's release clause caused by the club has unlimited money to be spent in summer. I thought that if nassr will be coming up with a very high bid for mane.
My expectation is too far from the reality. It's likely mane will not be leaving from the club if nassr will not increase its bid for him as soon as possible. Bayern needs to get what already spent last season for him.
The club is now willing to lose a lot of money. The club doesn't wanna sell him cheaper than 32 million.

A more appropriate sentence for Saido Mane is that no club dares to offer the price that Bayern wants as did Al Nassr. The current scenario is that Bayern need more funds to complete the arrival of Hary Kane with the option of releasing Mane to a club that dares to offer the highest price, Al Nassr agrees to Mane price. A step that Bayern had to take at the expense of Mane, as you said wishing the best for Mane in the SPL.

A deadly duo will be presented between Mane and Cristiano Ronaldo, they will dominate the SPL top scorer list next season I think. Reportedly again Al Nassr still has to pay a fine to Liecester City if they want to recruit new players, but that's only a small problem for the owner of Al Nassr, he can afford to buy Liecester like buying Newcastle.

It's quite surprising for football fans that no European team showed interest in Mane. Liverpool wasn't supposed to part ways with him like they did. He's an amazing player, probably one of the best wing forwards out there. He would have continued to give them outstanding performances if he stayed. But, Bayern want to part ways and sell him. Anyway, wish him all the best in his next chapter.

Money is not a problem for them and besides, that is what they wanted in the first place, to attract known players from the European League and they know that these acquisitions comes with a hefty price and so we can say that they have been preparing for it, and has been ready for quite a few years now. In the future, Saudi League will be more competitive to the others leagues compared to what they are today.

A few weeks ago Mane confirmed that no Saudi League representatives had met and made an offer for Mane but this time the rumor reappeared after being posted by Fabrizio Romano and this time it was not Al Ahli but Al Nassr who was negotiating, reportedly negotiations are progressing positively and the next meeting will discuss salary and possible bonuses. I wonder how much Al Nassr will pay this player per season will it be above 100 million? we'll hear the deal in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, Munich will receive between 15-20 million Euros in transfer fees.

Can you imagine the competition between Benzema vs Ronaldo and Kante vs Sadio Mane? these players have almost the same character must be very impressive to see their competition and it is clear that Al Nassr will not easily replace Ittihad even Ittihad has the chance to win the title again.
I have also heard rumors that Riyad Mahrez will leave Manchester City and join Al Ahli but not in this transfer window but in the next one in the summer, this rumor is reinforced by Manchester City's plans to find a replacement for Mahrez one of them is Raphinha who is considered worthy to replace him.

Mane is not the player Bayern Munich want, they hired his player to take Lewandowski's place in their team but the Sadio Mane we saw in Bayern Munich was not performing well at all and they are about to sell this player and make some money from it.



About spending money on the Saudi teams I think some people think only Saudi teams are rich and they can spend too much money and hire expensive players but the fact is in European countries we have many rich teams but they usually prefer to spend money to grow younger talents in stead of buying expensive players.


I'm not sure about the income Marco Silva can get in Fulham but as far as I know, 40m is a lot for Marco Silva, and Marco Silva can't get this money in Fulham or any other European team that's why it's not surprising if we see Marco Silva in Al Ahli for the next season.

Pre-season is only the first step for any club to measure the readiness of the team and this is not the full benchmark of the results. But we may be so surprised when we see such a large number of defeats because the quality of the two teams is not so different. The results of the defeat they got must be a big evaluation because this is the first step for them to face the league next season.

Isn't that too excessive? and this statement is also not necessarily confirmed correctly, because usually news makers are always looking for sensation from Cristiano Ronaldo. Celta have no relationship whatsoever with Man United, so linking this issue to his treatment is irrelevant.

I don't think Mane was released by Bayern Munchen because his contract is still valid until 2024, the injury he experienced last season made him fail to perform optimally to replace Lewandowski's role. But recently there was news that Al Nassr was interested in signing him in this transfer window, Tuchel seemed to openly give room for Mane to leave the Club.

Despite his inconsistent form last season with Munchen, I think it would be better for him to continue his professional career with Al Nassr because he would be a perfect partner in partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo. If officially released, Bayern will receive additional funds to recruit Harry Kane from Tottenham, which is priced at 93 million Euros.

As roma has been showing its interest to recruit him from bayern but the final decision was on mane itself. I heard that if he has been approached by cristiano ronaldo who has been contacting him directly. It's likely the chance for him to join in al nassr is very big compared with consider an offer from another european club. As roma was not the only club that has been showing interest in recruiting him.

https://romapress.net/from-germany-roma-interested-in-sadio-mane/

The main problem since bayern was increasing mane's release clause was also making the european clubs gave up in signing him as a new player. That's why mane is likely to go to the al nassr as a club that can afford to pay bayern's requestion for about €32 millions. It will not be so difficult for al nassr to pay bayern with such amount. The chance for mane to be another european player who come to the saudi pro league is very big right now. Im seeing him as a very strong candidate to join in al nassr after brozovic.

I wonder why there's no European team interested with Mane when he was playing in Premier League for 8 years and his performance was stable enough. He's still competitive, check his performance in Senegal, he's the best player among his teammates.

If Liverpool not want to sign him, Chelsea need to sign him because there's no good striker in this team.

This news keeps appearing since last 2 days reportedly Al Nassr is willing to pay 15 million to Bayern Munich which means Bayern have lost 50% of their market value since signing Sadio Mane last season it's not a bad choice over getting nothing. This is not just a rumor because Mane Agent has had a meeting with the team from Al Nassr perhaps a personal agreement has taken place and now waiting for the continuation , I suspect next week we will hear the latest news.

Saudi Pro League teams success manage many start European players, before transfer window closing I think still have many star players will move there, not only with excited salary but also Saudi Pro League not worried spent much money for transfer fees. Its happen because Cristiano Ronaldo effect, after joining with Al Nassr he has been success bring many star player in this summer window transfer and there are created record with most expensive salary for football players.

Current rumor, Sadio Mané negotiation with Al Nassr and looks almost reach agreement deal for moving to Saudi Pro League teams and will play with Cristiano Ronaldo.

it is very possible to do. we can see that currently some of Europe's top players are also finally playing in the Saudi League. now the American League or the clubs in the Dutch League will no longer be a priority for top European players to end their careers. Ronaldo started the steps of the increasingly popular Saudi League. we cannot deny the truth that in this strategy there are businesses run by the government and Saudi League clubs.

The odds for Benfica is only @1.25 this is indeed low odds but i can understand because compared to Al Nassr they are much better however the match already ended that Benfica can able to humiliated Al Nassr with huge scores 4-1 and in the first half Benfica was playing with high pressure and it make Al Nassr even cannot to develop their game and only in 22 minutes Di Maria can make Benfica to leading and Goncalo Ramos became an man of the match because he can scores 2 goal

Conceded 9 goals in 2 matches is not impressive records for Al Nassr even from these statistics we can see Al Nassr quality is far below to european teams although they were playing with new players but it doesn't help them to gets the better results and i know this is only a friendly match but Luis Castro should be take it seriously and next match Al Nassr will fight against PSG which is in the term of quality PSG is much better than Benfica so they have to improved their performance and not lose with big scores anymore

I think spending millions of dollars for each season is not a problem for the saudi league team. Moreover, this scheme had been planned far in advance by a number of important people in Saudi Arabia. So I think it's a good thing to support their country to become a viable destination for any European player if they want to earn big wages. On the other hand, of course this looks like the investment made by the Saudi league by bringing in these players and of course the impact of the arrival of these European players can bring a number of sponsors or even more interest from everyone outside Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabian teams have remained the only competitive leading clubs that have signed a plethora of potential players, and they are ready to address anything inside their space with the objective to reach their ultimate objectives. Considering the number of European players transferring to Saudi Arabia keeps growing, we do not expect all of the new players to become accustomed to the pattern immediately; some will require time. When it comes to signing exceptional European players, Saudi clubs are not relenting in their duty; they are willing to do everything in their power to bring over good players who will push the club's potential and boost the league's balance.