Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 732. (Read 126475 times)

I don't know how important it is to recruit star players just to host the World Cup, because if Saudi Arabia has previously been appointed to host it means it has nothing to do with star players playing in their league. But yes, apart from that aspect at least the saudi arabia teams are currently doing a big change with fantastic player signings, and I think it is only to increase the popularity of their league and not about being appointed to host the World Cup.

If we talk from other factors, it's not just the 2030 world cup that is their target. there are many agendas that are being carried out by the Saudis, for now they are engaged in the football industry. that's why, they are willing to spend a lot of money. at least, for now Saudi has become the concern of the eyes of the world and not only from certain cultural and religious centers. now through football, Saudi can get more attention by the world.

By the way, I forgot what China did. to be sure, the Chinese Super League failed with a variety of factors that became the trigger. different from Qatar and Saudi, it seems they prepared everything carefully and well planned. began recruiting Ronaldo to become the 2030 world cup ambassador for Saudi Arabia, bringing in several other stars. his original goal was none other than the 2030 world cup and at the same time promoting Saudi football. they've done it in a few other countries too, the Premier League for example, there's City and Newcastle. Qatar doesn't want to be outdone either, there is PSG and now United will soon be owned by Qatar. IMO, I see that the Saudis have a vision and mission for the future of their country. however, it seems unsavory to talk politics and football.

What is certain, next season's competition in the Saudi Pro League will be even more competitive.

So those who are eliminated from the Champions League will enter the Saudi Champions League, how is this possible because this is a different zone while UEFA is Europe Saudi is the middle east, I don't think this will happen.

I know Arab countries have dominated European football by buying some of their giant clubs, but for competition matches it will be according to UEFA rules and each zone has its own federation.

It makes sense, Arabic states wanna dominate football and they are just doing the first steps in buying teams from Europe.

I think it would be possible for Saudis to end up with sending teams to champions league as well, that was the first thing they talked about. Not like they should be at the group stages right away, that's not the point, but have a rule that is in place, and whatever their rank is, they should be considered to be able to actually go there.

This way we would at least compare them to the teams at Europe and see them. What can be done? Well you know how premier league sends 4 teams, and then smaller nations send 3 and even smaller 2, and smaller 1, and some even do not send directly, the champions of andorra end up playing elimination games etc. Saudi should be like that, be able to reach group stages by right, but first need to play some games at elimination phase.

This doesn't make sense anymore and it seems that money talks too much here. 

How is it possible that now the Saudi league will fully control these European teams to enliven its tourist attractions? do they have no other way to expose their country? shouldn't the transfer of star players like Ronaldo and Benzema be enough to grab people's attention? there are so many questions in my head that are difficult to express. Well, whatever it is, there will be positive and negative sides for the Saudi league, I have no further comments regarding this process.

I do agree that they can't be one of the best leagues just by paying so much for old players, but at the same time that doesn't mean they won't be watched. That's the whole point isn't it?

It's not that they need to be "better" than the other leagues, they just need to be watched more, right now no other league could afford to pay players this much, which means players could leave and play in those clubs for a lot of money, all the older players knows about this and they may end up doing it, which means a lot of known names being there eventually, even if we just have small amount right now, they are famous, and in the future we may have a lot more famous people going there. All of this is so that SA league would be watched a lot more in the future.

If this really happens then we see that money has been working well  it's not easy to run competitions like this outside of Europe
What I'm worried about this competition will beat the prestige of the Asian Champions League, I don't know if we need a competition like this


This is only a rumor the accuracy is very low even if this is carried out independent by the Saudi we don't know the enthusiasts.

If this rumor is true it might be a good thing but it could also be a bad thing.
The good thing is that there is still another chance for a team that can't get the UEFA Champions League trophy but can fight for the Saudi Champions League trophy.
It's just that I actually have the thought behind that these two Leagues might have some debates and disputes in the future.

But whatever it is, if it can boost the development of football, surely we will all support and agree with it.

If the news turns out to be true. So I think that's the best thing I know here today about the progress of the football competition in this middle eastern country. I hope if you find any other news about this then you can come back to share it here. because I think I and the others here must be curious about this news. Because I personally haven't found any news about this.

As of now, their main attention is bringing big stars and highlight this league around the world with their own influence and money but if they try on other way like have youngsters from different regions and also create academies then surely this will also give them good intention and profit as well but who cares with they already have enough funds just because of oil, and they are using shorter way for this all which is also good for them, but this also needs huge funds as well.

Few clubs already have Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo and few are also in contacts for few more big names even things are not easy due to domestic rules and lifestyle but still we can hope they will be in business and also try to have good intention for the next world cup as well.

I don't know if this is news and is also a good step or vice versa.
Good for Saudi Champion League and not for teams from UEFA Champion League and or vice versa, and I think this is an ambitious project from UEFA and the Arab League but its success is still in doubt, because of course the teams from the Arab League will find it very difficult to compete with teams from Europe, this is almost the same as the World Cup where only a few teams from Asia appear impressive but it will be difficult to move very far, and if that happens, in the end, the list of winners in Saudi Champions League is a team from UEFA, and the match will not be interesting to watch so the income will not be big.

Before Saudi Pro League teams spent much money for signing star player have did early by Chinese Super League teams and they pay bigger salary for many star player from European teams. But difference with Chinese Primer League teams because Saudi Pro League teams pay more higher salary until with how much money get by Karim Benzema over 200 million euro each season. Brings player have won Ballon d'Or its not really bad for Saudi Pro League team but most of them have been over age but will make their competition keep exciting for few years later.

Saudi Arabia has planning become host FIFA World Cup 2030 and seems they want invest more with their teams football and bring star player make them easy later how to be host country for FIFA World Cup.

Recently we have good positive changes in this region with the UAE is doing amazing stuff for their positive reputation and Qatar's success in FIFA World Cup bring many opportunities for few countries in this region to have stuff like this even it's never been easy but as they have money and influence things can change for them right now Saudi targeting FIFA World Cup 2030 but most chances it's not going to happen for them but still if they will work with this momentum then surely things could be good for them in near future because recently they are investing huge funds for the development of sports and having good structure as well.

I believe players influence are not going to help them but their strong domestic setup and quality surely going to help them for having chances of big events in this country with most chances we can expect 2034 or 2038 world cup in this region again.

It is nothing wrong from those super star players and they have abundant professionality to contribute their bests for clubs they are playing in. The fact is they joined the league in Middle East at ending years in their careers but their performance would be among tops of the league. Like Cristiano, only joined the league since a second half of season but he managed to scored many goals. I feel that in a new season, he will be able to compete seriously for a best scorer title with Benzema.

Saudi Arabia clubs spent more money for super star players than Quatar clubs or Chinese clubs spent in the past. The league successfully attracted super star players like Cristiano and Benzema to join them. They are players who won Ballon d'Or and had seasons to stand at top of the global football. Quatar in the past only was able to attract star players like Xavi, Canavaro etc.

Two leagues are at different levels if we simply look at their achievements to sign with star and super star players.

The best place for retirement. That's what i call this place is right now. It's caused by saudi clubs are always offering big amounts of money for any players who will be interesting to play in the SPL. It's caused by the main target has not yet reached. It may be different once saudi will be successfully chosen to host 2030 world cup. i don't even think saudi will have very big ambition to sign so many players with big salaries. The young players are always willing to dig their potential by playing in the EU league even longer.
They were only using this as a place to retire caused by they will not able to get a lot of money with remaining time on his career. I think that was the best reason to explain why some big players are coming here.
It's all about money. Let's see how much money will be spent by saudi in this summer.

some rumors going on twitter.

From the next year, we may have a Saudi Champions League, with the team excluded or eliminated from the UEFA champions league.


News in progress.

Buying a set is a different matter.


These are my thoughts and I still think it will be like this.
They are so popular because we are in the transfer season right now.
How many people here watch the SPL league? I haven't watched it even once.

Maybe the Arab league is popular since Ronaldo joined there.  before that no one even discussed it here. Ronaldo popularity can raise the Saudi Arabian League, it is increasingly known throughout the world, even Ronaldo arrival makes the Saudi Arabian League even more interesting to watch. Apart from that, what has already been said, I totally agree that the Arab League will not be able to make big changes to compete with the European League, even though they have enough money to build their league.

On the other hand European players joining the Saudi Arabian league seem to be at the end of their career and I'm not sure the Saudi Arabian League will really be famous when they don't have Ronaldo anymore. Well all these things of course are build and build and for now they are the best asian tier and it's better than before.

These teams were the much known teams among the entire list of teams. Particularly the competence was high between these two teams as they were the title winners in more numbers. This time Saudi Arabia had been spending big and attracting players towards the league when more number of Europe Club team.