Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 745. (Read 118495 times)

I think the hype around Saudi league is long gone. First few games people had interest but now nobody talk about that around me. I saw Al Nassr's latest loss against Al Ittihad. If Ronaldo can't win a championship here that would be a bummer. Imagine paying millions of Euros and can't even get a trophy in return.
I see Mateu Lahoz was the referee in this match. I knew in some derbies these Arab leagues hire foreign referees. Lahoz is a top class referee. I'm surprised at first but that makes sense. It's better to use foreign referees than locals in the most important games. Players and fans have nothing to object to these referees.

Fans and haters will always criticize Ronaldo whether Al Nassr is the winner this season or not. But when Ronaldo fails to help Al Nassr winning the title of Saudi Pro League, they will be more eager to blame and criticize him. It's their nature, it's impossible to expect them to be silent. They will always look for Ronaldo's mistakes.

However, personally I think Ronaldo has done a quite good job in his first season. He already contributed several goals and assists, not every player can do this in the first season of a new club.

It would be a damn shame if they lose this one too, I mean they need to win the whole league, if Ronaldo fails to win in Saudi league as well then I do not know what to say.

I get that there is a good chance that he could be upset here as well and there are 10 other players in the club and that is why you should not put all the problems on him and they could lose without him being the issue but it is still important to keep reminding that this dude earns hundreds of millions of dollars from this club, he should be capable of winning games himself. I know it is unfair example, but if you put Mbappe on the same team, he would get full wins, sure Ronaldo is 15+ years older but he is still getting paid a lot to lose.

At least the pro saudi league still leaves 10 matches remaining until the end of the season, Al Nassr still has a great chance to shift the top of the standings. but on condition, Ronaldo and his colleagues must wipe out all the remaining matches and hope that Al Ittihad will slip in some of their matches.

I suspect, that the leaderboard can change frequently over time. most likely, that Al Ittihad will slip in a few fights. because, Al Ittihad has a pretty tough fight, because, they still have one meeting against Al Shabab, in particular, the toughest enemy is Al Hilal. if, Al Ittihad is unable to win two matches over the two teams. of course, providing an opportunity for Al Nassr to shift the ranking currently occupied by Al Ittihad.

But in fact, the fight for the Saudi pro league trophy is increasingly competitive. one of the teams that slipped, automatically provides an opportunity for other teams to win a trophy this season.

Of course that's a star player's risk, because the fans have high hopes for him. Ronaldo's existence can certainly bring change to the club, so that they can get a trophy. If the opposite happens, then Ronaldo will also bear the burden of the team. Ronaldo's position as captain, of course the club fully trusts him. If Al Nassr can get the Saudi league trophy, Ronaldo's name will also be in the public spotlight, even in Europe. Maybe Al Nassr can get the remaining 1 point, because there are still many matches that Al Ittihad has to go through.

But if Al Nassr can't get that, then Ronaldo will be the target of the fans' anger. Unfortunately when playing Al Ittihad, Al Nassr lost, so Al Ittihad would catch up with the points.

al ittihad really looked extraordinary, in the quarter final kig cup against al feiha, they managed to win on penalties 4-3, I'm curious about who will be against Al Ittihad in the semifinals of the Kig Cup later, if it's Al Nassr then it's a nightmare for Al Nassr. I can say, al ittihad is the strongest team in the arab league at the moment.

I see Al Nassar being able to become a champion if the attitude of the players can be more enthusiastic and aggressive. For CR7 himself he plays with passion but how come other players are not like pro players. The coach doesn't have the experience to adjust the game to help score goals.

It can't be helped that the quality of Asian and European players is different, especially at Ronaldo's class. He will definitely have trouble if his team doesn't develop, he will have trouble. If you see when Al Nassr lost yesterday, after the match he was angry. He must be angry at all the teams he has defended, not only at Al nassr, but at Juve, Real Madrid he is angry so that his team can develop half a level again.

Al nassr just need to improve very well to get back to the first position of the league, this can be done ig they can be able to win their remaining games, failure to get victory will be an opportunity for Al ittihad to maintain the first position. Al attihad has always been a very tough team for Al Nassr.

that's football, sometimes fans think too much of their idol can change the situation but in reality football is a game of 11 people, not a game of 1 person. Al Nassr is also still competing with 7 other teams for the King Cup, hopefully in this season Al Nassr can get 1 championship trophy so that Al Nassr fans are not so disappointed with Cristiano's expensive purchase.

It will be so sad for Ronaldo if Al Nassr is nor able to win the league, winning the league will be an achievement for Ronaldo atleast for his presence to make the club excel. If Al Nassr are unable to win the league,  Ronaldo will be criticize by fans and it will be a big blow to him

Check Al Nassr's instagram, that alone paid off already. Ronaldo is visible on almost every single post and they have gained more than ten million followers ever since he signed his contract with them. They are drawing a lot of public attention and that is what they wanted. They didn't buy Ronaldo because they thought they can be more successful as a sports club. This was more of an entrepreneurial long-term move. Establish Al Nassr as a global brand, improve their overall brand recognition. That is what Ronaldo got paid for.

Now I am on the fence as I have no idea whether Messi will do a similar move, but I don't believe he will. If he wants to distinguish himself from Ronaldo he shouldn't sign a contract just for the money out of Europe in a country where human rights are neglected. Time will tell what his decision is as it has already been said publicly that he has offers.

Being the top team on the leaderboard it have got the increased chance of winning against Al Fateh. Same day one more important match is being played between Al Nassr and Abha. This match have got the winning favoured for Al Nassr, but the previous match performance of Abha against Al Fateh would surely make Al Nassr give more consideration. Because, Abha made two goals within the first 20 minutes. It was predicted to be a loss for Al Fateh, but finally they managed to take two goals on penalty and draw the match. One goal was during the last minute of the match.

yeah he's bigger maybe even bigger than his current club so the club has to obey him

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The next game the standings leader will face Al Fateh and Ittihad will be the guest team, it is quite interesting if look at the statistics of their meeting Al Fateh has never beaten Ittihad but unfortunately Ittihad has also never won as away team for Al Fateh so this match has the chance to be a draw match or Ittihad will continue to pressing their oppenent to beat the home team to stay on top with a difference of only two points, Ittihad must play perfectly to win this season.

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Indeed, it was rumored that Ronaldo did get special privileges in his contract. even the security for him and his family when in Arabia which was deployed was extraordinary.
everything is done with thought. Al Nasrr also calculated what they would get for the money they had spent. this is their business, everything is of course important.

Whatever Ronaldo's achievements are, with his current contract he is doing his job in his old age. I think the coach and the club have to realize that.

I know what you mean and I agree with you for the most part, but I think that for almost every single human being there is a financial threshold, even for Ronaldo when he becomes weak. The amount he was offered by the Saudis was so absurd that saying no is almost absurd as well.

An honest question to you: if someone puts half a billion dollars on the table for some mediocre job that you would have to do, would you do it? Even if you have half a billion already. He will have so much freedom, all put down in his contract. He doesn't even have to spend most of the time in Saudi Arabia I would bet! He must be there for the games and probably he even has some special rights when it comes to skipping training during the week when he feels like it.

But there is also a moral aspect and that is that Ronaldo took a money for playing soccer in a country where human rights is a big issue.

Of course, I meant Al Nassr footballers need to adapt to Ronaldo's game system. :) Ronaldo is a football player who can be a role model to his friends in Al Nassr thanks to his experience and career. I don't think he can be part of the team. Ronaldo is a part that is bigger than the whole, that completes the whole. Ronaldo is more than a harmony in a musical instrument. I think if the Al Nassr club want to benefit more from him, they should build the whole team's game system on Ronaldo and prove it on the field. They can also make a few other good transfers that can get along well with him. I watched their last game and saw that they did not have a football player who could come close to Ronaldo's level, except Abdurrahman Garib.

Ronaldo is a super star and people are still crazy for him - you are right - he wants to finish off his career well. He is still more powerful and smarter than many other player.
Clubs want to have him in thier team not because they only want to win all the matches but having him in their team brings good luck to the club.

a player with a good reputation, a player who wants to finish his career well, would not play in that world known as the Saudi Professional League, ronaldo was deceived or very deceived when he went to play in that league. I don't even know if people pay much attention to the games played by these teams, but when I watch the games played by these teams in the Saudi Professional League, I see the same quality of play as the teams in my country, and just to say that the teams in my country have zero quality. how would a great player like ronaldo play well in a place where players even have difficulties in passing the ball well?

Did you watch the PSG game yesterday? If you watched, you might have seen that Messi wasn't playing well yesterday, that's normal, there are days when people aren't feeling well and everything goes wrong, but because Messi plays in a team where the players have talent, things are minimized, that's enough. see that yesterday messi made a pass to mbappe who ran and scored a goal, but ronaldo is playing alone at that end of the world, there he won't have a good future as a player, he will have heartbreak and will retire in the worst way. those players from ronaldo's team don't know how to play

I honestly cannot understand how the hell ronaldo fell into greed, he could have gone to play for teams in brazil, argentina, south korea or japan, or he could even have accepted to reduce his salary a lot and have gone to some small team from top leagues in europe. but greed blinded him and he wanted the reputation of being at the top earning a lot of money and now the guy has become a joke around the world  everyone knows that the guy is playing with players without quality and that he has already ruined himself

So far, Al Ittihad has a great chance of winning a trophy this season. they only suffered one defeat in 20 matches this season, 14 wins, 5 draws. Al Ittihad's only defeat was when playing against Al Hilal. well, if Al Ittihad is able to topple Al Hilal in the match later, they are even closer to the pro saudi league trophy. but if the opposite happens, then Al Nassr has the opportunity to shift the top of the pro saudi league standings and has the potential to win a trophy this season.

but what is certain, the pace of the two teams that are currently competing in the race for the trophy this season. looks like it's not going to run smoothly. because, the two teams still have tough matches in the remaining 10 matches in the future. if Al Ittihad is able to be consistent, then their chances will be difficult to be overtaken by their competitors. and vice versa, Al Nassr must win the remaining 10 matches until the end of this season, including overthrowing their toughest rivals, namely Al Hilal and Al Shabab. if, Ronaldo and his friends succeed in maintaining their consistency. So, they deserve the pro saudi league trophy.

But, yes, there is still plenty of time for both coaches to prepare their respective teams for high performance.