Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 75. (Read 111548 times)

I just found out that Al Ittihad is currently handled by Laurent Blanc, this information comes from transfermarkt, where previously I thought that Al Ittihad was officially handled by Stefano Pioli. Apart from that, Al Ittihad has not done much to get new arrivals from European League clubs, especially in the winger sector which they need to help Karim Benzema up front. Plus, it was previously rumored that Mohamed Salah would be brought by Al Ittihad to the Saudi Pro League with a quite fantastic transfer value. However, I am not following further developments, whether Al Ittihad still has interest in this Liverpool striker or not.

Talking about Al Ittihad next season, we can confirm that perhaps they have targeted several top European players to deepen their squad, none other than to make Al Ittihad much more competitive. The goal is for Al Ittihad to compete closely with other elite clubs in the Saudi Pro League. Moreover, several clubs, whether shaded by the PIF company or others, are currently focused on bringing in several European players to prepare their performance before this competition begins. So you can be sure that Al Ittihad will do the same thing, especially since they also have a very healthy budget. What is certain is that next season the Saudi Pro League competition will be quite tight, because several teams are preparing their squads to be much stronger in the fight for the League title.

This should be an easy match for Al-Ahli but sometimes even weak teams can overturn expectations. The reason is that there are quite a lot of pre-season matches that produce bad results for the top teams and therefore, if you want to bet, you have to consider it carefully.

On the other hand, Al-Ahli may want to try a new strategy considering that Saint Maximin has left to join Fenerbahce and it seems that coach Matthias Jaissle wants to convince his team to be more competitive in the Saudi pro league starting next season. The reason is that last season they lost their performance and lost so many points. Even so, Al-Ahli was still able to finish in 3rd place in the standings, but the margin between the two teams above was more than 15 points.

Today Al Ahli will play a friendly match against Ujpest FC and this is their first meeting according to odds Al Ahli has more convincing odds to win but because this is a friendly match so we need to be careful if we want to bet the possibility of surprises can still happen because I also I don't know what the performance of his opponent Al Ahli will be like this time.
However, I will try to bet on Al Ahli's victory, hopefully this club does not disappoint me

Benzema was also put under pressure by the fans, this is an additional factor that certainly does not contribute to the player’s adaptation to the new team. There is also such a moment, a forward can score with decent support, which he received in Real Madrid, but in another team everything will be different, when there is no teamwork, everything can be different. In addition, a not very good relationship with the coach only made everything worse. Now everything should change for the better, Blanc should get along well with Benzema, especially since they have already worked together.

This is very good news for Al Nassr, now I believe that Al Nassr is ready to play well next season, and the team knows what is their main problem, I have said before that Al Nassr's goalkeeper is not good, but I don’t even know where they got the goalkeeper that is conceded a lot of goals from, the goalkeeper is not good and he is one of the reasons why Al Hilal beat Argentina with many goals, I see some mistakes that he did in some matches, Al Nassr has been suffering throughout last season but I think they are about to let people know that they are also the best team in the Saudi Arabia league.

Al Nassr also needs to change some players, some of Al Nassr's players are not good especially the midfielders and the defenders, the midfield doesn’t know how to control a game against a big team like Al Hilal, Al Hilal doesn’t have any good players but they play well and control the midfield so that they can win against their opponents easily, I will like Al Nassr to sign more players and win a trophy next season.

Yes, after several great goalkeepers were offered contracts by Al Nasr, Bento was finally the one who signed a contract with Al Nasr. This Brazilian goalkeeper certainly has the ability to guard Al Nasr's goal more safely. The reason is that Bento has quite promising talent, even from several media that I read, it is reported that Inter Milan is also very interested in bringing in Bento. So it can be concluded that Bento does have very promising talent, especially now that Bento is still young, so his talent can continue to be honed until it becomes even better.

Apart from that, talking about defenders, until now I have not heard of any player that Al Nasr really wants to bring in. Maybe this week Al Nasr will definitely start looking for a new defender for his team. Varane could have been chosen by Al Nasr, because currently Varane is no longer playing at Manchester United, because his contract expired a few weeks ago. So that way Al Nasr can try to offer Varane a contract. However, according to news circulating, Varane is rumored to be joining a club from Serie A, namely Como. In fact, it is reported that there are only a few stages left for Varane to actually officially join the club. So if the news is true, it might be a little difficult for Al Nasr to bring in the former Manchester United defender.

And in my personal opinion, maybe Brandon William could be a suitable player for Al Nasr to offer a contract to. The reason is, the former Manchester United defender currently does not have a club, because his contract with Manchester United has expired. And until now I have not heard news that Brandon has been offered a contract by another club. So Al Nasr could step in to be the first club to offer him a contract.

How can you conclude Al Ittihad to be most aggressive? They only could sign 1 top European player so far (Houssem Aouar) after they hired Laurent Blanc as a new coach. I think it is just a small transfer, there will be no significant impact if there will be no other new players. Al Ittihad needs some new players if they really want to be competitive again and try to join the race for the title. Their defense looks quite weak, no strong defenders and no strong goalkeeper. I think Laurent Blanc can rebuild the squad from the defense line firstly.

Which young player are referring to?
It is good if Al Ittihad can sign young players with great skills. But it is no problem to sign old players, too. Both young and old players are needed to strengthen the club performance.

Al Hilal still didn't sign any new player? I think the club management is satisfied with their current squad. Sure, Al Hilal looks like to continue their domination in Saudi league. Al Hilal is the team that has the most established squad.

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Check SPL transfer news: https://www.transfermarkt.com/saudi-professional-league/transfers/wettbewerb/SA1

Bento isn't a bad one neither, ı would say that he is actually a decent goalkeeper and could do very well. This of course doesn't mean that he is better than Ederson, I would still say that Ederson would have been better, but I assume that City had trouble finding a replacement that would be similar, so instead they decided to keep Ederson. This is still an improvement for Al-Nassr though, they are still getting a better player and it should probably improve the team a lot.

Ronaldo has done his fair share by trying to keep the team scoring, but they were conceding too many goals to win anything, which is why I think it is clear that they needed a better defense, including a GK as well. They got one now, lets see if they are going to get any defenders too. I assumed they would have gotten Varane, it looked like they were going to do fine, but right now when I am looking at it, I am not hearing any news about them getting a new defender, seems like that is not the case. If they could get someone like Varane (he is gone now) then we could see them become much better, like so good that they could win the league without losing any game. I don't know who is available for them to purchase though.

Karim Benzema can't performed well for the first season with Al Ittihad and he still need more time get adaption well exactly huge difference culture and weather between Saudi Arabia and European culture.
I don't think its much problem for Karim Benzema return back to his top perform on second season exactly keep stay with Al Ittihad and not any decision yet he want leaves before his contract expiring. Al Ittihad not performed well in this season after finish on 5th standings place but have advantage for next season without participating or playing at AFC Champion League make them keep focus in domestic league regarding the rival team Al Nassr and Al Hilal will playing in AFC Champion  League.

Some Saudi Arabia club have start with signing top european players but Al Ittihad keep quit and not make any new signing yet behind several teams have announced two or three new players signed. I think Al Ittihad need to sign many top qualities or European players if want get back in the winning race with Al Hilal or Al Nassr most active sign new player recently.

Benzema's career at Al Ittihad did not go well, he experienced problems that disrupted his performance last season, and the problems he faced also involved management at that time. However, the problem can be resolved quickly so that it doesn't last long and the game is no longer disturbed by the problem.
Al Ittihad is one of the teams that has the money to bring in expensive players, but they have not been able to maximize it well. Last season they were only able to be in 5th position at the end of the standings, in my opinion that was not a good thing, because they could actually be in an even better position. Next season they must be able to prepare better, one of which is by taking advantage of the transfer window to bring in new players who can help the team. There are several gaps that they lack, so they must be corrected during this season's break.

I think it will be very difficult for Firmino to return to a big club in the Premier League. Because as you said, competition in the Premier League is currently very tight. In fact, it is not only old players who can be eliminated there, young players are often eliminated if their performance is not good. So looking at these conditions, it can be said that Firmino will most likely have difficulty returning to a Premier League club. Moreover, currently, in my opinion, Firmino's performance has decreased slightly. Because it was proven that he was no longer called up to the Brazilian national team for the Copa America competition yesterday. Even at Al Ahli, his performance this season could be said to be mediocre. So with this fact, it seems like Firmino will have to enjoy the rest of his career with Al Ahli. The reason is, the hope of being able to return to playing in the English League or the big European leagues seems very unlikely.
So it is not impossible, for example, that after Firmino's contract ends with Al Ahli, he will choose to retire. Because after his contract ends with Al Ahli, he will definitely get older and most likely his stamina or skills will decline. And if it's like that, it's likely that no club will want to recruit him (let alone clubs from the big European leagues).

Apart from that, next season Al Ahli will loan Allan Saint Maximin to Fenerbahce. If this is true, then Al Ahli will certainly experience a decline in performance in the left wing sector.

I am sure that Ittihad will try to make the most out of this season, after all they have the money for it like other teams, they just need to spend it wisely. Like last season Benzema looked like a great deal, he looked like he could have done perfectly considering he came straight from Real Madrid, but things did not go the way they want it to go and that is why they had some trouble. But, if we are talking about something that is going to be a bit harder, then we are going to see things change.

I believe that the best thing to do in this case would be just watching the games before any bets. I think I will not bet for the first like four or so weeks, and then decide on who to bet on which game, to see how teams changed over the summer.

It's extraordinary that finally more young players are joining the Saudi Pro league. After yesterday there was Houssem Aouar who was successfully brought in by Al-ittihad from AS Roma. Now there is another young player who has joined the Saudi pro League club. And yes he is Bento Matheus Krepski. And yes I agree that it looks like the trend of young players choosing to come to the SPL will indeed increase. And it is possible that in this transfer market there will be names of other young players joining. Let's just wait until the current transfer market ends. And regarding Bento Matheus Krepski, this player has actually been talked about quite a lot since last season and quite a lot of teams are interested. Even last year I heard that Inter Milan intended to bring in this goalkeeper. But I'm surprised now because this player is going to Al-Nassr. Hopefully this will be good news for Al-Nassr which really needs improvement at the back. Including their goalkeeper.

Bento arrival to Al Nassr has shattered all speculation about Szczęsny who had previously been linked with Al Nassr, although previously Al Nassr had reached a personal agreement with Szczęsny but Juventus prevented Szczęsny departure to Al Nassr by asking for a high transfer fee, as well as Ederson, who was reportedly just one step away go to Al Nassr, had to fail after their offer of 30 million euros was rejected by Manchester City and their wanting 50 million euros in cash at the moment, Bento is not a goalkeeper who is familiar to all of us because he plays at Atletico Paranaense in Brazil league, after looking at his profile, I started to think if he would be the right goalkeeper for Al Nassr later?
Because I see that he is not a very good goalkeeper even though he is still very young, because from his current statistics show that on average he concedes 1 goal in a match.

Making brilliant signing shouldn't be something to worry about because Al Ittihad have the necessary resources and utilizing them becomes simple for them. Al Ittihad is a formidable club and appointing Laurent Blanc as new headcoach was such a brilliant idea. They're currently eligible just like Al Nassr and Al Hilal to win the title. It becomes streak for them to observes winning in games from next season and having a prominent coach that have the available experience to upgrade a club's status in major competition.

Neither Wojciech Szczęsny nor Ederson will be Al-Nassr's new goalkeeper, but Bento will join Al-Nassr. An agreement has been reached between Al-Nassr and the player and his club, namely Athletico Paranaense, and the contract will last until 2028. This is a long-term contract and Al-Nassr is certainly preparing this as a serious step to be able to compete to win the Saudi pro league title.

I think that at the relatively young age of 25, Bento has made a crucial decision for his career and I think the trend of young players choosing to go to the Saudi pro league will continue to grow every season. Even so, he definitely knows the risks he will face because reaching a high level in Europe will be very difficult and perhaps his focus will change to making money rather than thinking about other things. Well, hopefully this time Al-Nassr can perform well with additional strength from the goalkeeper side and at least not concede a lot of goals.

Maybe Al-ahli is indeed worth considering. And it looks like Al-ahli can also be quite a strong competitor, just like last season. even though last season Al-Ahli was a team that had just been promoted again. But they were immediately able to finish in 3rd place in the standings at the end of the season.

But actually this is not that surprising because we know that Al-ahli was also active in bringing in star players from Europe last season. For example, Riyad Mahrez was brought in from Man City. Then there is Roberto Firmino who was successfully acquired from Liverpool last season. So it is not surprising that Al-ahli managed to achieve good results. And maybe next season Al-ahli will still be a strong competitor at the top of the SPL along with Al-hilal, al-nassr and al-ittihad.

Houssem Aouar was appears on last summer when Mourinho era but he was difficult to gets one place on Roma starting lineup even with the arrival of De Rossi his situation is not so different because De Rossi also only played him as substutition player and Houssem Aouar realize this situation so that's why this summer he has decide to leave Roma and there was no certain reason why Houssem Aouar decide to not continue his career in Europa again but some people has been speculate why he did this because of high salary which given by Al Ittihad

I think Houssem Aouar decision when decide to leave Roma is the right decision because De Rossi have no plan to hold him so if he insist to stayed with Roma i am sure he will be difficult to gets more minutes to play however this is good deal for Roma because they gets Houssem Aouar from Lyon with free transfer status last summer and now they can successfully to sell him to Al Ittihad with 12 million as a fee i think this is good profit from Roma and they can used those money to bought the players they want

Of course Manchester City will definitely have a hard time letting Ederson go because Ederson has defended Manchester City well and of course this decision is in Ederson's hands and we'll see what Ederson does and of course we will see whether he will choose Al-Nassr or Manchester City.

However, according to the news that I read, Manchester City also offered Ederson a 75% salary increase and of course that would make Ederson the person who would get the biggest salary in Manchester City if Ederson didn't choose to go to Al-Nassr and continue to defend Manchester City. Yes, of course we can only speculate regarding this, but indeed Manchester City will definitely make a lot of profit if Ederson is recruited by Al-Nassr. However, I personally predict that Ederson will remain at Manchester City because of course the salary offered by Manchester City is also quite large if he continues to defend Manchester City. Of course, we'll see what happens later, but if for example Ederson goes to Al-Nassr, Al-Nassr will certainly have a better defense than last season.

But with all this, I see that there are still few people who really observe the development of Al-Ahli and most of them still focus on Al Hilal and Al Nassr, which are the two top teams and have fierce competition, but that natural because these two team have football stars.
I also believe in Al-Ahli ability in the future, for the 2024/25 season there are still some big hopes for the development of Al-Ahli performance and it can be much better than last season, they can become one of the strong competing teams if they really focus on stability and consistency of strength.

Actually, Roberto Firmino is still 32 years old and this is not too old because if he can continue playing well, he still has at least 2 to 3 years before he really experiences setbacks, but it is not clear whether Roberto Firmino will be accepted if he wants to return can enter the Premier League.
There, talented young players are far superior and more in demand, if the competition is tighter then Roberto Firmino chances of returning are only slim, but if that fails, he will inevitably have to survive and get used to Matthias Jaissle leadership style.