Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 732. (Read 133485 times)

The money is not big but why Al-Nassr is taking a long time to pay that money? so far no one know the reason. However, in 2018, such allegations were made based on the transfer of former Leicester City player Ahmed Musa. According to the contract, the club was supposed to pay some extra money based on his performance during that time but it failed to get that money against a well-known club of the present time, Al-Nassr. But since the club spends huge sums of money on the purchase of renowned player, it is not a big deal for them to pay that little money. Moreover, PIF will reimburse the club. I think this is big deal for PIF. The club is sanctions from buying players so that they could pay off the money quickly. Al Nasr was asked by FIFA to repay the money in October 2021. But the club did not pay that amount. As a result they have been sanctions now but I think the money will be paid soon.

Arab clubs are smart enough to find ways to make their leagues more popular, they take players who have a very large base and can also be said to be one of the current football icons. On top of that, they also have the money, so they don't hesitate to spend a lot of money on a player. Of course, that is the way to go for older players who still want to play but for a high amount of money. Now the Arab League is one of the destinations for players who have begun to fade in Europe, even names that are still very good in Europe are also not reluctant to taste competition in the Arab League.

I was actually happy some time ago when I heard Messi would join the Arab League, because the competition from these 2 players (Messi and Ronaldo) might happen again. But unfortunately he prefers to go to Miami to continue his career there.

in my opinion pogba should accept the offer from the arabs if this is really true, because if he stays at juventus he has much more chances of not playing frequently, since he got his injury prolonged, it's been a long time since he's played for 90 minutes in a serious game and that made European teams lose interest in him, and even at Juventus, it seems to me that he is no longer needed, I understand that with his age and if he agreed to play in Saudi Arabia he would not return to Europe anymore to play in a great team, but at least if he gets a 3-year contract then he could guarantee a good retirement, after the end of his contract maybe he will play again in some team in Saudi Arabia but with a lesser contract

but one thing is for sure: he won't be playing in big teams in europe anytime soon if he stays in europe and at juventus he will spend many games sitting on the bench, i wonder if it's worth staying in europe sitting on the bench or going to a league who is surprising me with good signings and is becoming a quality and prestigious league and already has the attention of all sports and news channels, without a doubt that the best option for him would be to go to saudi arabia, I hope he makes a good choice


I dare say that if ronaldo had not been in the saudi arabia league, great players like benzema and others would not have agreed to play in saudi arabia, even if they were given a lot of money. ronaldo brought attention and this will be giving the league prestige, currently they are players in the process of retiring, but soon we will see many talented young players going to play in saudi arabia

True, injury gonna be a serious issue for pogba. He is not able playing regularly for juventus till this time. Those saudi clubs were making huge gambling to buy him with a lot of money.
Ahli and ittihad are keen to bring pogba to the saudi pro league. He must have passed medical test first before he will be able to join in the club. There's no update regarding him at this moment. My guess if pogba is still thinking so hard.
Juventus didn't wanna see him stay even longer caused by the club must pay his salary while he has been absent for a long time.

Yes, that's clear because Ronaldo is a mega star who is very influential for other players. He is an ideal example in football including his former team-mates Karim Benzema. Now we see there are several more players following in Ronaldo's footsteps to end their SPL career. He bridged and opened the gates for other European players and former stars to have careers there. In addition to Ronaldo's fame as a football celebrity, there will be many factors other than the achievements and the Champions that he won in his golden age, including his lifestyle and where he has a career which is a benchmark for other players as well.

Of course Ronaldo's presence had a direct impact on the Saudi Pro League specifically his current club An Nassr. This is one of the reasons that made the SPL the choice of former top European players like Benzema and Kante wanting to move there apart from the large salary factor they received. On the other hand, the SPL rating will automatically get better and the club will reap benefits in various forms such as jersey sales, tickets and television rights.

Before Ronaldo join the Saudi team we didn't have much interests from the top European players to play in the Saudi teams and earn money to end their career there, but since Ronaldo is a known player and after he joined there, the wave of some players joining the Saudi teams started.

Yes, this is some kind of funny story and the "problem" amount looks like an pretense and not a reason. Obviously, European clubs are already under a lot of pressure from the transfer activity that the Saudis are leading, and perhaps this is an attempt to somehow cool them down.
I hope the Saudis don't stop, I just want to watch the world transfer market burn 

Yes, I've also read information about this. The main purpose of bringing in Ronaldo is to promote Saudi Arabia and make him an ambassador. Football is the easiest way for everyone to accept, by bringing in Europe's top players, of course it will make fans who want to meet their idols become tourists to watch football and travel to Arab, although Saudi Arabia has never been empty of tourists both for Umrah and Hajj. It looks like the government of Saudi Arabia wants more non-religious tourists to visit this country.

It's shocking me too. The amount was not so big. FIFA will able to lift the ban as long as al nassr will able to pay it as soon as possible. It's a shame for a club that paid a lot of money for ronaldo to owe add ons for leicester city. The amounts are nothing compared with ronaldo's salary 1 week.
We shall not feel worry about that. The owed amounts by Al Nassr were relatively small. The club will most definitely pay for the recovery of its reputation, and I strongly believe that Al Nassr will not allow this situation to persist for an extended period of time.

I understand you point and indeed the end point of a football club is profit but when Al Nassr has very large expenses and cannot recover these expenses it is not a complicated problem because they only have players with high prices in one season while to be able to reap the results it takes a long time either two or three more seasons.
Profits for every football club can certainly be obtained and there will be a time when these high-priced players will give success to Al Nassr.
There is no need to think about negative things and it is better for us to support what can make them a strong team for the Saudi League.

After leaving Manchester United for Juventus, I thought he was going to rejuvenate his career only for him to go into oblivion. He's had tough time with knee and muscle injuries that has limited him from representing the old ladies, as he was only able to make just 10 appearances in all competitions last season. He still has 2 years on his contract with Juventus and they really want to see him leave. I don't expect much from Pogba based on the fact that he's already 30 years old and also his injury concerns, but the Al Ittihad move is a great opportunity to try another league and earn big wages before he finally decides to hang his boots.

I was surprised when I read this news earlier and it's very regrettable for a club as big as Al-Nassr to pay the rest of the money they can't do it. I think they should be able to sort out such a small thing because it really affects the player transfer regulations they are facing at the moment and considering they were able to bring in Cristiano Ronaldo since the start of last season, shouldn't that kind of money be easy for Al-Nassr?

Well, whatever happens later, I hope Al-Nassr doesn't lose his good name in the Saudi league, especially now that they are a reference club for the arrival of the next star player. It is better to pay the rest of the money and avoid going to court which may cost even more money.

This problem arose at the most inopportune moment. Because if this problem is not quickly resolved then Al-Nassr will not be able to register the players they got in the transfer market to the Al-Nassr club. But the problem of Al-Nassr's debt to Leicester City also seems not big. Maybe a few years ago when Al-Nassr had not been taken over by the PIF. Al-Nassr did face financial problems. but for now I think paying off the small amount of money is not difficult. and hopefully FIFA lift the sanctions. Because I'm really looking forward to Hakim Ziyech being able to play with CR7.

Yes I usually agree with you, but if we leave the financial aspect aside, which is of course quite compelling when you are offered that much money, wouldn't it be better for young coaches to manage an underdog team from the Premier League instead of a team in Saudi Arabia? As I said, no financials involved here hypothetically, I think that young coaches would benefit more from engagements in either the Championship in England or a team like West Ham, Fulham etc. When you win the SPL title, that doesn't really mean you can lead a Premier League cup to win the title.

Fifa has follow Ronaldo to Saudi Arabia,  they never brought this matter since , its now they  know they have to sanction them, just to weaken the Al Nassr, and Ronaldo, FIFA is corrupt, let them sanction Barcelona first,the Saudi Arabia league is now a threat to them, they want to use sanction to stop players from signing to the clubs in the league.

If, AlNassr is owning Musa any dime, they should sort it out, and avoid Fifa, they focus is to tag the Saudi Arabia league bad, but the league is growing so fast and they will not have more hands in it.

OK.. so looks like Juventus doesn't want Pogba in their squad. Good for him that Al Ahli came up with a blockbuster offer, which may be worth £128milllion over three years (including bonuses). There are some big names playing for Al Ahli right now, including Roberto Firmino and Edouard Mendy. Pogba's entry can make them one of the strongest teams in the SPL. My only concern would be his injury issue. In the recent past, he had injuries on hamstring, knee and groin and had to miss most of the Juventus matches in 2022-23.

It's shocking to see FIFA ban Al-Nassr, Saudi Arabia's leading club, from registering new players. I projected it to happen, with exceptional big contract arrangements offered to European players, with bids so enticing that the players would not reject or decline the offer.

Following the main stories, it's linked to when the Nigerian striker, Ahmed Musa, was signed from Leicester to the Saudi Arabian team back in 2018, when he was in the spotlight during the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Al-Nassr has not paid the outstanding £390,000 in add-ons and interest. Surprised to see them face three consecutive FIFA transfer window bans, and they have these seasons to pay the amount, or they will be referred to FIFA's disciplinary committee, which the Club chiefs confident it won't reach that stage as they would intend to pay the pending debts to the Foxes who got relegated to championship.

Two Arab clubs namely Al-Ahli and Al-Ittihad are currently competing to get Paul Pogba. In fact, one of these clubs has sent an offer to Pogba with a sizable amount of 33 million Euros per year. But according to reports, Pogba turned down the offer. But the Arab club said it was ready to send a bigger offer. and I think Pogba probably won't be able to refuse if one of the Arab clubs sends a much higher offer. And Juventus also seems to have given Pogba the green light if he wants to leave. Pogba is a great player. It's just that he was unlucky because last season he spent a lot of time recovering from the injury he had suffered. I think if he has fully recovered from injury then he will still be a player that the lucky club can count on.

Saudi's offer is far above what already received by him now. It's quite hard to reject it. I think that pogba shall accept it. It doesn't even matter how many times he injured. Juventus is now putting him in the transfer market with the price around €10 million. It's very from what has ever offered in the past which was more than €100 millions. The arabian club can buy him easily from juventus. It's caused by juventus doesn't wanna see him stay even longer in the club.
Juventus wanna try to use money raised from him to sign kessie from barcelona. Several teams have targeted Kessie. It will not be an easy task for juventus to sign kessi as a new player.
If saudi's offer was true and i think that pogba shall accept it before try to create another mistake again. No choice for pogba other than leaving from the club.

With that kind of money for a player who has been seriously injured and who is already 30 years old, accepting the Saudi Professional League club's offer is the right choice. I'm really not sure if Pogba will only go to a club in Europe, because it doesn't really make sense to me if we consider the condition Pogba is in at this moment. What's more, Juventus could have sold Pogba and thus, it was proven that Pogba's condition was basically not fully suitable to compete any longer in European competition.