Topic: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 - page 808. (Read 132365 times)

All thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo for popularizing Talisca after he joined the Arab club side Al-Nassr. With the way Talisca plays and scores in that club, you have to wonder if he isn't from Brazil. Brazil has so many talented players that they cannot use them all in the national team. Talisca was not only fortunate to play for his national team; given his age now, I doubt he will be given the opportunity to do so. He has a solid track record and a big name in the Al-Nassr club.


If he was to be playing in any of the top European leagues today with this outstanding performance, he’ll be one of the most sorted out attackers in the league. His club career only span through Bahia in 2009, then moved to Benfica in 2014, played for Besiktas as a loan player in 2016, joined Guangzhou Evergrande in 2018, and finally Al-Nassr in 2021. He’s 29 years old now, and might likely end his career in Al-Nassr after signing a new contract till 2026.

I don't think that Tite only chooses players from the Brazilian national team who play in the European leagues, Alisca is indeed a good player but Brazil has other options for an attacker, from what I have read, Talisca was called once by Tite to play for the national team in 2018 but it seems that the results he showed did not satisfy Tite so he was not called again. btw, according to wikipedia, prior to al nassr, talisca was a benfica and guangzhou evergrande player.

Before spending big money surely this could've been discussed much. Everything done at the right time made things even popular. Once after the FIFA World Cup the announcement came and it turned to be the big talk. One of the oldest football league which isn't much into discussion had been discussed and the viewership increased from all around the world. All have happened out Ronaldo into the team. Surely what have been spent on him will be earned within short time period, because each and every act is connected to revenue.

I disagree - because if they spent so much money on Ronaldo
They are not fools they know what gem they have brought to their club and Ronaldo is blessed to be landed on the scared land and experience some amazing stuff

Well, they do have a manager that is not world class and a team that is not a world class level. Sure they spent a lot of money on Ronaldo, but if I were the owner I would have just hired a much better manager for a lot of money, and also get like 3-4 other players that are good, when you combine all that it still doesn't cost as much as Ronaldo, and the team would be much better.

Imagine getting someone like Mourinho for 20 million a year, and then hiring some great players for 10-15 even 20 million a year, that means the total would be 240 million a year, and I mean 20 million a year salary on all of the roster plus the manager, that's a little bit more than Ronaldo, if you make it 10? That's nearly half as cheap as just one Ronaldo.

Very regretful, in the end Al Hilal had to collapse at the Al Shabab cage. and as I thought before, that this match will not be easy for Al Hilal who seems to be experiencing fitness problems after playing 2 out of 3 matches in one week. which in the end, in the away match against Al Shabab, Al Hilal played very underperformed. plus, this defeat was quite embarrassing for a team as strong as Al Hilal who had to be defeated by a crushing score.

On the other hand, Al Shabab was able to take advantage of the momentum and succeeded in breaking Al Hilal's dominance so far as well as regaining the ranking temporarily occupied by Al Hilal. interestingly, in the next two weeks Al Shabab has an away game against Al Ittihad. you can be sure, this match will attract a lot of attention. because, if Al Ittihad slips when hosting Al Shabab later. will automatically provide an opportunity for Al Nassr to win the top standings while the Saudi Pro League. Well, interestingly, this competition leaves 8 matches remaining. which means, the competition for the Saudi Pro League trophy will be even tighter and more competitive.

Now eight games left in this season, and we have good difference between top four and others which is clearly indicating Al-Nassr and Al-Ittihad will fight for the top two and Al-Shadab and Al-Hilal will be on for 3rd and fourth things still tricky as any game can bring changes, but these four are going to stay here until end of this season Ronaldo impact is working on Al-Nassr as this was his first season but in coming weeks things could be more wide open, and we will have better results even if we have no quality players in other teams than Al-Nassr can dominate this league.

Here I agreed with you there is no chance for the Talisca in Brazilian National team as they have enough players those are doing impressive job in national team, and he is in last six years never been in any big team or league with age is now also reaching to 30 giving all details about his future right now he is doing good job for the current club and now with the extended contract mean he will have good time for enjoying after end of this contract most chances things could be not favorable for him in any league with most chances he will return to Brazil.

Although he's showing great performances in the SPL, Talsica failed to prove himself in Europe. He played for a short period for Benfica, after which Benfica lent them to Besiktas, then to a Chinese team, so he wasn't the superior player for them. Anyway, some players prefer money over popularity, as we saw many cases for players who moved to China, KSA, or UAE when they were offered to play for good teams in Europe.
Regarding his contract, he will get $9 million a year for the next two years, which looks reasonable for a 30 year old player. However, his new contract is no way comparable with Ronaldo, whose effect is lower than Talsica when it comes to contribution to the team results, in my opinion.



Al Hilal's performance is unfortunately falling back as they used to be the leader of the standings table during the past years. I think the reason for their loss is that they lost hope of competing for the title this season as Al Ittihad and Al Nassr look hard to be defeated. On the other hand, Al Shabab won against Al Hilal for the first time in 8 years. This fact may represent what Al Hilal used to be in the SPL.

Yes but the discussion often surrounds Ronaldo's contribution to the team and whether or not he has made Al-Nassr a much better team than it used to be before his arrival. If we leave aside the marketing aspect (which was the predominant reason to sign him), they signed him to win the big games, the decisive ones. So far they lost them all. That is the true record so far. Did he score goals? Yes he scored 11 goals in 9 appearances and since his arrival takes 90% of the penalties, without which he would be at 7 goals in 9 games. That is an above average statistic for a player like Ronaldo in the Saudi Professional League.

I only hope that facts are seen in a sober light. No emotions and no exaggerated fanboy considerations like "it's a new experience, he needs to get used to it" or "the weather is different". Ronaldo publicly, repeatedly and emphatically says that he is the best in the world. I think we should then expect nothing less than one would expect from the best in the world. Now we have some results.

I totally see where you're coming from, folks. Those two critical losses must have been a colossal letdown for Al-Nassr supporters, and the anticipation for Ronaldo was, like, sky-high. But we've gotta keep in mind that football's an intricate game, and a whole bunch of factors come into play when it's about a team's triumph or defeat.

One aspect Al-Nassr could really hone in on is their tactics, their strategy, you know? They've gotta scrutinize their rivals like hawks, whip up a game plan that amplifies their strengths and zeroes in on their foes' frailties. They also need to amp up that team chatter and synergy, making sure everyone's singing the same tune, striving for the same dreams.

And, of course, there's always space for growth when it comes to individual player prowess. Ronaldo may not be the titan he once was, but he's still a precious gem on the team. By leveraging their strengths, collaborating as a unit, and perpetually honing their abilities, Al-Nassr can still seize greatness this season!

If Talisca could play in the European league but the chance to become a Brazilian national team player is not easy because Brazil is full of talented players, several players who are still playing at top European clubs have failed to become Brazilian national players like Firmino who is no longer called up as the Brazil squad, because it seems like the Brazilian coach will only call up players under 30 years old unless he is a player with a big influence on Brazilian football like Neymar who is quite respected by fellow Brazilian players.

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Al Hilal failed to defend their position because they lost quite badly to Al Shabab, which is their competitor in the standings so far, even though Al Shabab is often only able to draw against Al Hilal so this is a good win for Al Shabab.
In the 23rd week of matches it is unlikely that it will affect the standings for 1st and 2nd positions because Ittihad FC and Al Nassr will both face teams that are difficult to beat them, so both of them will get 3 points together and changes may occur in the match the following weeks

Sadly Anderson Talisca doesn't stand a chance to play for the Brazil national team. When I watch him play and saw how good he was I research to know about his age to see if he still have time left but I was surprised to see that he was almost 30. As a 30 years old unpopular forward, I doubt if he'll get a chance to showcase his talent in Europe top league to get the attention of his national side. The Brazilian nation is so filled with talent that some big names get missed that would have been usual starters for other nations but because it's Brazil and they have so much talents they don't play. Anderson Talisca  has lots of competition and it got me wondering why he doesn't change his nationality and maybe get a chance to play for other country that he's eligible to play for.

Anderson Talisca made the right decision to extend his contract, he's now getting lots of media attention and it's best to keep playing with Ronaldo to get more famous. He's getting lots of love from Ronaldo's haters that even last game that both him and Ronaldo scored a brace, he's getting all the praises as the media always shows Ronaldo as the villain. The media stories were saying; Ronaldo Al-Nassr: Cristiano Ronaldo SECOND BEST despite Scoring goals, OVERSHADOWED by teammate Anderson Talisca – Check Out and all this was just to take the glory away from Ronaldo as he keeps scoring even after they wrote him off. Congratulations to Anderson Talisca though, he deserve all the praises he's getting.

Yes and while Ronaldo is of course scoring well and there is no doubt, 37% of his goals are penalties. Talisca must feel bad because I assume he was the one to take the penalties before Ronaldo came? I am not sure, but Talisca is doing a great job regardless. So far Talisca took two penalties and he knows that he could have taken the other four as well if not for Ronaldo and then he would be at 20 goals perhaps already.

I know that Ronaldo gave away one penalty recently and I think it is his duty to do that. If you want to be a captain, you should take responsibility, but a captain doesn't behave like a king. If someone comes to you, feels confident and asks you to take the penalty, you got to say yes from time to time.

We can hardly blame Ronaldo for those though. I mean sure he may not be as great as he used to be so I understand the criticism he gets and that's alright, but that doesn't mean that they lost just because of him. Not only because of the whole "there are eleven people in a team" situation, but one of the early ones, the cup one, was on his earliest days, he was barely there when that happened and that is why I would not put the blame on him.

And even when you are the greatest player in the world, even if you put haaland or mbappe or messi here, there could be a single loss, and that's why other 10 are as much to blame as well and it just happens. I think as long as they end up finishing the league with all the other games won, all the remainder of the games won, even if Ittihad does the same and wins the title, I would say you got to be happy about him.

Anderson Talisca is a good player for Al-Nassr and I confess that I only saw him in this Arab league, before ronaldo moved to this Arab league, that's why I was curious to know which country he was from and to my surprise he is Brazilian, as soon as I saw that he is a Brazilian I thought about the following: "will he ever have a chance to play for Brazil?" brazil national team, that's because national team coaches tend to only call players who are in the popular leagues in europe

it has been like this whenever a national coach comes to take charge of the brazil national team, well at least he is earning money as a player and will be until 2026, looking at his age I think that when he arrives in 2026 they will still be able to extend it for another 3 years and then he will retire, it's a little strange that at 29 years old and being brazilian he didn't get a good team in europe, or maybe he opted for saudi arabia due to a high salary, but the most important thing is that he looks like this well, in Al-Nassr he has a guaranteed place to play in the starting 11, that's because after ronaldo he is the best player in Al-Nassr in my opinion

Anderson Souza Conceição/Talisca he is the best besides Cristiano Ronaldo at Al Nassr, because he can score 16 in 16 matches. Yes, that's the right move because Talisca might wanted by another teams when they see his performance in the SPL and if Al Nassr doesn't renew contract might they lose a goal machine apart from Ronaldo at Al Nassr. By the way now the top scorer in SPL more interesting because Al Hilal player Odion Ighalo has equal his goal with Talisca, and maybe Odion will increase his goals tonight because Al-Hilal team will play against Al-Shabab in the next few hours.

It is true that they rarely lose, but they lost 2 of the most important games and that's bad enough look, don't you think? I mean first they lost the cup game, and that means no cup, and then they lost to Ittihad which means that they are not leading the league neither. When you combine these two together, you can score 20 goals to lower level teams like last week, but it won't change the reality that they are doing bad.

When they got Ronaldo, and paid him so much, expectations were that they would win the cup and the league together and that would be great, and even maybe do great in Asian UCL next year as well. But looking at them now, they are not that different from Aboubhakar period to be fair.

Al-Nassr extended Talisca's contract until 2026. He is the team's top scorer. He scored 16 goals in 16 matches in the Saudi Arabian League this season. Also, he is the most important football player along with Ronaldo. I think Al-Nassr made the right move by extending his contract. If they want to be champions, they need to have talented players like Talisca. Ronaldo is a very important football player, but he cannot make any team champion alone because football is a team game.

Source: https://twitter.com/AlNassrFC/status/1644079049143197706

I am not so sure where you are gathering your information, but as far as I know the winning streak of Al-Nassr is two games with a loss before that and the winning streak of Al-Ittihad is four games with a tie before that. If both keep going at the same average pace of the last five games, Al-Ittihad will win the title. That is what I read from the table.

I also read that in the Saudi Super Cup Al-Ittihad beat Al-Nassr 3-1 with Ronaldo playing the full distance. I further read that Al-Ittihad won 1-0 against Al-Nassr in the league with Ronaldo playing the full distance. There is just no indication (or perhaps I can't see it but everybody else can) that Al-Nassr is in a good position to win the title. It is of course still 8 games to go, but for now Al-Ittihad fully deserves the position they are in as they have beaten Al-Nassr in both games.

I dont think that Saudi Arabia league can be one of the best or close even. Its a good thing that they are bringing legends but this league at this age is like a retirement home. MLS did the same thing before bringing Pirlo Villa Lampard Beckham and so on and its not even close to the top