Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 765. (Read 129254 times)

Being on the King rule, giving relaxation to the foreign players never be a big issue. Already Ronaldo is enjoying the exception of live in relationship which according to Saudi Arabia is against their law. However the lifestyle of what they enjoy in European countries can't be expected to happen in Saudi Arabia. The transition is slowly happening in Saudi Arabia, maybe in the future we can expect big changes. For now the government is much focused on improving the country's economy through sport, traditional and tourism activities. So, we can expect something better than now in the next season of Saudi Arabia Pro League.

@shogun47 there’s nothing wrong with his statement as he’s justifying to his fan’s why he’s playing there and his dream can turn into reality if he can continuously convince star player’s who’re in their prime to come and play there. Also as we saw that the rules were relaxed for him and I believe that Saudi will offer the same relaxation to other foreign player’s which will further improve their leagues image and attract the top talent in the long run.

Big star and super star players only join such leagues when they are old enough. Like Ronaldo joined them when he lost his position in top leagues in Europe. Some players joined them because of money when they are younger than Ronaldo but they are not at same level and quality of Ronaldo.

Skills are helpful and I know about risk of serious injury. With old players, a serious injury can terminate their career any time. If Messi won't have serious injury, he will have a long career and his style can help him to reduce injuries he might get. He got many injuries when he was young but in later of his career, he changed his style an more wisely on field to avoid tackles. Like we see Messi got less injuries than Neymar and I believe he will not lose his skills in Saudi Arabia League.

Ronaldo is also smart to avoid injuries too but even he succeeds, he was not able to get a body like his twenties or early thirties. Messi will face similar body problems next 2 or 4 years.

One major problem for the Saudi Professional League is that not may professional players would want to live there for many years. Many professional players appreciate the Western free lifestyle. They would go there for two or three years and some maybe longer, but it will take a lot of time in my opinion until young talents would decide to go to the SPL before they had a great career in Europe, living in England or Spain or other places. Is is also the whole European socer ecosystem that you can't quickly copy with a few billion dollars. Ronaldo says that about SPL becoming top 5 because it is his job to do that. When you get paid half a billion dollars, why not just say it and then think who cares. He probably knows it is not realistic. SPL would have to be among England, Spain, Germany, Italy and maybe France or Portugal. We are not even talking about Argentina or Brazil yet.

More skills and playing style won't guarantee Messi to have a longer career than Ronaldo. What if he is getting often to be injured? In many cases, fitness makes a player retire sooner. If you compare Messi and Ronaldo, it is clear that Ronaldo has better fitness although he is older. Ronaldo seems to continue his career above 40 years old. While Messi, I'm not sure he can play more than 5 years from now.

Indeed. Some top clubs in Saudi are interested to sign Messi and they can make offers with huge money. However, we don't know whether it makes Messi interested or not. Not every player wants to play in Saudi Pro League and money isn't everything for a rich player like Messi. Messi has the option to move to another club in Europa or return to his country.

Reaching the top 5 position on the list of popular football leagues were really tough. The leagues played on Europe have got big history followed by the follower base. Saudi Arabia Pro League have got big history, but the player involvement is very minimal. Maybe over the years the participation of more world class players will make it more popular. The participation of Ronaldo itself have added more popularity to the league. For his presence a good number of people have started watching it. When more such players make contract with different teams, the league becomes more popular. However reaching within the five is still a question?

IMO, scoring a hat trick is not an ideal benchmark. because after all how many goals Ronaldo scores in one match. the points remained the same, they only accumulated 3 points. then, why is Ronaldo unable to score goals in every match. that's why, he needs better Chemistry from his teammates. let's see, that the average Al Nassr player is a player who has a slightly better level than the other teams competing in the Saudi Pro League.

In addition, the change of coach at the end of the season forced the players to adapt again to the new system. the result, in two matches Al Nassr lost. yes, as I said before. that's why, I say, at least he needs more time with the Al Nassr players and the coach as well. well, related to language is also a problem for foreign players competing in this competition and Ronaldo is no exception. he also has to adapt not only on the field, but off the field.
well, it doesn't mean that Al Nassr has his hopes only on Ronaldo. we know, in football there are eleven players. teamwork, will be indispensable. here, we will see how the system is applied by the coach. as a center forward, Ronaldo's job is to break into his opponent's goal. after all, Ronaldo is paid to score goals. So, it's only natural that fans have high hopes for a megastar of his caliber.

No, on the contrary Messi's style of play is not at all suitable for aging. Even in his best years, he was always criticized for a small amount of work in the center of the field (in confrontations with Bayern, for example, Neuer ran a distance comparable to Messi) and now this problem is only exacerbated as other qualities are also deteriorating. I think Messi has no chance to keep up with other players who played well even in old age.

Ronaldo recently said that the Saudi Professional League could become a force and will be among the top five leagues in the world. But he also said that they are literally lacking players and infrastructure. Now how will that ever be sustainable when they need to pay a few hundred million in salaries per year in order to convince the stars to go there? The sheikhs would be better off buying their clubs in the European leagues and go from there. Establishing the SPL as one of the top five leagues is a bottomless pit.

Also Matchday 30 is the last game of this season in the SPL, although they are not competing for anything anymore, because the title is already in Ittihad hands and also the second position there is occupied by Al-Nassr. But the last game of matchday 30 will be an important match for Odion Ighalo, the Al Hilal player who is currently on the second top scorer, this man will probably be excited to get the golden boot, so Al Hilal still seems to be serious to get a lot of score in their last game against Al Raed.

Saudi must be knowingly taking such decisions that have surprised the world. The Saudi Pro League is gradually adding legendary players to take the top rank especially in terms of popularity already it gets widespread positive reviews worldwide. Particularly it has drawn the most criticism for the inclusion of Messi. Barcelona, PSG, Al Hilal and Inter Miami are all trying to keep Messi but where Messi is going, this is the main fact. A few days ago, when there were many criticisms about this matter, Messi's closest rejected it. Finally, that information is going to be true. Messi is joining Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal by offered a huge amount of money. This issue has already been revealed in the French media.

In the Saudi Professional League, Round 30, 8 matches will start at the same time this season, with Al Ittihad leading the way. As the strongest team this season, Al-Ittehad is ranked highest in the points table. They are crowned champions in the season but there is no telling how well they will perform in the next season. If Al Nassr can perform as well as Al Ittihad next season, they will definitely have a chance to top the points table. However, this season Al Ittihad has played well in the Champions and is at the top of the points table.

Indeed, bad luck for Ronaldo. But Ittihad deserved to be a champion, they are very consistent so far. Rumors about Messi in the Arab league is to Al Hilal not to Al Nassr, so later we will see the competition between Messi and Ronaldo again. Regarding Al Nassr, the striker already has Talisca at there, I doubt he will be released by Al-Nassr and replaced by Messi, moreover if Messi moves to Al Nassr I doubt Ronaldo will be happy.

I think he would still be bringing so much talent to so many teams in Europe, so to say that he is not a top talent would not be fair. However, would he be the best player in a UCL title team? Well, that seems like a scenario that will probably not happen, so there is no reason for him to chase any success anymore, it's smarter to go for money instead. He would be fine in SA and he will do alright and he should be spending his last years there making as much money as possible.

There were rumors about 200-300 million a year, that is number you can't refuse, that's just way too much, it's unreal even and I would expect them to get him if they actually do offer him that much. I don't know why they would lose that much money, because it would not be profitable for them, but if they do offer it, then I expect Messi to accept.

Even now after end of this season things looking not good for the Messi here in UEFA, but there is no confirmation he is going to join Saudi Professional League because few rumours are also working with his connections into MLS because this is also good chance for him to play good league and have good money even this will be not near to Saudi offer but still nothing is clear because his father and team working about his future.

But, there is no doubt if we have Messi here in this league then surely things could be gone amazingly for them because this could be the best moment for the Saudi League they are going with two legendary players of current time and fan base could be also at his peak as well which will bring many sponsors and surely double their profit as well.

Messi has more skills and his playing style are more helpful to expand his career longer than Ronaldo. However no people, no players can win against ageing forever. Especially in sports, football at highest levels. Federer, Nadal in tennis failed and Ronaldo failed too.

Messi is younger than Ronaldo and he is still hot with Saudi clubs which are very rich. They want to have Messi and can give him very good salary. It is not easy for any player to reject an offer that can help them receiving a few hundres of $ million. If you can earn such big money within 2 or 3 seasons, rejecting it is very hard decision.

Yes, this is likely because Messi is no longer at the top level in Europe and must go somewhere. But I think it would be very risky to get him because he is good when the team is good and plays for him, otherwise I'm not sure that he will be able to show at least what Ronaldo shows being two years older. But maybe sheikhs don't care - they have endless money.

Well, adaptation is the softest word one can use to comment on what happened to him but it's not really that, because if he needed adaptation he would not have scored a hat-trick in the last few games and his total goals scored in 16 games is 14 meaning he has quite a good rating at his club, but to put hope in just one person for a team sport is a bit of stupidity and obviously impossible, what happened is Al Nassr failed and it has to be accepted maybe not because they are not good enough this season but because the others team have been better at competing this season, and Ronaldo is a human not a robot who can always be on top because even a robot can error and experience a decrease, and actually there is also a big tournament that will be played by Al Nassr and the focus on that tournament is the Asian champions league will be better because maybe they will be able to achieve more there.

These rumors will certainly be spread by his fans or at least the media who feel they need visitors to his website, Newcastle doesn't need him and maybe he can consider another profession because it's impossible to expect him to perform as well as he was at Real Madrid, and he and his fans have to accept that because he is not immortal.

I think it's not bad luck for Cristiano Ronaldo when his team doesn't win. We can't always expect a club filled with star players to become champions, because in football they play as a team, not individually, moreover Ronaldo joined them when he was old enough for a player.
Regarding Messi, he was reportedly approached by an Arab club that is a rival of Cristiano Ronaldo's current club, Al Hilal. However, from Lionel Messi's side, to be exact, Messi's father said there should be no more news linking his son to the Saudi Arabian club. I don't know if this is the end of Al Hilal's struggle to bring in Messi, or if this is an irresponsible statement. The reason is that I haven't heard anything from Messi's agent yet.

I'm not surprise if Christiano Ronaldo was unable to bring championship to his league. Is not getting any younger I don't expect much from him. The main reason al nassr bought Ronaldo was not to come win trophies , I don't think their is any need to put blames on Ronaldo.