Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

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Anyone here think we can see Cristiano Ronaldo leaving Saudi League at any time? Im refering like going to MLS or something like that?

It's never ever happened. How can we expect him to degrade his level by going to the MLS league? how can it possible to happen?

Cristiano Ronaldo reportedly wants to extend his stay at Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr until 2027.

https://www.eurosport.com/football/transfers/2023-2024/cristiano-ronaldo-wants-to-extend-stay-at-al-nassr-until-2027-paper-round_sto9831126/story.shtml

Even thought the article released last year but it's still reliable enough. I think that ronaldo has has intention to stay much longer in the club. This is also making the situation even better for the club since ronaldo is also having willingness to stay much longer in the club.
I hope al nassr will agree to extend his contract till 2027. The possibility of him to join in other club was not there. It will also make al nassr will able to defend him much longer. Al nassr was always making the situation even better than before. That being said that if club is performing very well by having ronaldo in the squad.

Because we know him very well and aside of his personal marks he wants to win tournaments and seems like in this Al Nasrr is not gonna happen.

The chance is so small. If you are aware about how al nassr is only having a chance to win AFC champion league. Yeah it gets a weak opponent but it's lost at the first leg. The second leg is gonna happen at home for al hilal and im sure that if the club will able to perform even better for the upcoming season.
Al hilal is the biggest problem for al nassr to win the trophy this season. it's caused by al hilal was always having very good record this season against al nassr.

[lixer]

Despite Neymar's absence, Al Hilal's unbeaten streak remains outstanding. It shows you dont necessarily need star power to shine, right? While they've kept winning, Neymar's absence highlights the need for savvy signings. Why not find people that are huge game players as well as famous names? Fit-in players who contribute consistently and may help the Saudi Pro League become more competitive. Al Hilal can set an example by showing that success is developed piece by piece with local and international talent. This could be their chance to start a new league trend by focusing on sustainable success without relying on one or two big stars.

Even Neymar's presence or absence never been having any impact on this team because he was here just for some fans base in South America after Messi refuse to join Saudi League, and they were looking for the top player from this region so Al Hilal already done good work and their performance is surely impressive which helps them for having top spot in this season Metrovic is doing amazing stuff after joining this club which is impressive with most chances we will have them into final of the AFC Champions League and their Saudi League title is also confirmed things can go for the double which will be amazing.

Now most chances we will have some good changes in coming season and surely Al Hilal will be also gone for the another big player now who is going to join them it's not clear but still they will be tried their best for having any top tier player from the UEFA which will increase their fan base as well which is currently most important for them.

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Karim Benzema before he joined Al Ittihad isn't the kind of player that's demonstrated too much pride but how he's automatically changed since he joined the club have been a very huge surprise to me. He's been having issues with the management and fans of his current club and even threatened them of wanting to leave the club earlier this season and now, it's been reported that the club had to sack their manager Nuno Espírito Santo because Karim Benzema didn't like the manager. It's true that Karim Benzema have won almost everything that is expected of a footballer including the Balon D'or but that doesn't mean that he should be rude to the club that signed him. If he's not interested in football again, he should humbly resign rather than trying to make himself a demigod.

I feel like Benzema is getting paid good enough amount of money to demand something like that. If he was back at Real Madrid or any other big club then he wouldn't have that chance because they would simply fire him, or sell him because he wouldn't have that leverage. Now that he is there, and he is getting a gratzillion dollars per year, that feels like he could ask for anything he wants since he has the leverage against the club.

If Ittihad doesn't want these type of issues then they shouldn't give this much to a single player to give him this much credit. Don't get me wrong, not every player is like that, but you are taking a risk of player being a snub, or even injured, and just get that money without deserving it.

[Strongkored]

Anyone here think we can see Cristiano Ronaldo leaving Saudi League at any time? Im refering like going to MLS or something like that?

Because we know him very well and aside of his personal marks he wants to win tournaments and seems like in this Al Nasrr is not gonna happen.

Moving to MLS is possible if there is a club there that is willing to pay a fantastic salary, even moving to the Portuguese league is also possible for him to end his career at his childhood club because several players do that.
But for some reason I think he will remain in the Saudi Pro League until he finally announces his retirement from his football career, indeed at Al-Nassr it seems difficult for him to get a title but this season is not finished yet, it is certain that Al-Nassr will fail to become the Saudi Pro League champion but there are several other tournaments that still provide opportunities for them to become champions, such as the Saudi Super Cup and the Asian Champions League, but it is not easy, especially since they will face their toughest opponent, namely the Al-Hilal team, which they cannot beat this season and early in April. competing in the semi-finals of the Saudi Super Cup, If Al-Nassr is able to get past Al-Hilal, there is a big chance of becoming champion in the Saudi Super Cup.

[Winterfrost]

What happened in penalty shoot-outs are simply nightmare for Al Nassr. They have four shots and succeed only one by Ronaldo, three other players failed, Brozovic, Telles and Otávio. Brozovic is very experienced with his national team Croatia in penalty shoot-outs so this failed shot is so surprising.

regardless of the argument, penalty shootout is a 50/50 scenario and you can't be too experienced not to have missed a penalty shootout. It's always  the moment when the outcome of the game is 70% luck and 30% experience.

Ronaldo has always been an incredible penalty taker and regardless of the social media banters against him, he has always delivered in major penalty shootout and it's just unfortunate that the other players missed out in their own kicks.

[Webetcoins]

A single player can not change a whole team and Cristiano Ronaldo can not help Al-Nassr win all matches. To win matches and win titles, Al-Nassr need to have a strong squad that needs to be strong in both sides, attacking and defense.

They surely have strong attacking side with Ronaldo, Mane, Talisca and some good midfielders like Brozovic, Otavio but in defense side, they are not strong. It is their biggest weakness, Achilles that cost them many defeats. This season is useless for Al-Nassr as they can not win titles in Saudi Professional League and AFC Champions League but it is helpful for them to realize their weakness.

If they can improve their weakness in next summer transfer, they will become stronger next season and can win titles. They need big changes in their defense side to be stronger and we will see what they will do in the summer.

Cristiano Ronaldo performance and influence is having big impact on this Saudi League even his team is not able to perform as requirements but still things are manageable because now in next season we can expect improvement which will bring better results and things will be also good for the Ronaldo which is going to end his season without any trophy as his team Al Nassr eliminated by Al Ain of the UAE but still there is good chance he will stay here and complete his contract because now he is also brand ambassador of the soccer world cup 2034 which is going to play in Saudi Arab, and they are paying him good salary for this all.

In this season, we have Al Hilal at his best which surely hurt the Al Nassr which also spend good amount but fail to keep their momentum and lost few matches which hurt them for the title race but as things are going most chances they will improve their defense, and we will have better results from them in coming matches which will give him better success and trophies as well.

[rendravolt]

I see a complicated problem where Al-Nassr's chances are uncertain, especially after conceding 2 goals first, making them much more under pressure and making the aggregate difference to 0-3 from Al-Ain. But fortunately, before the first half was over, Ghareeb scored a goal which made the position 1-2 and again cut the aggregate to 1-3. Here it is clear that Al-Nassr are still 2 goals short of equalizing the aggregate position and what happened surprised me where they were able to make a comeback and managed to win within 90 minutes with a score of 3-2 which made the aggregate equal to 3-3 so it had to be continued to extra time.

It didn't stop there, the two teams scored another goal in extra time which made the aggregate score end at 4-4 and here Ronaldo scored the deciding goal to take the match to a penalty shootout. But unfortunately Al-Nassr's efforts from the first half to the penalty shootout felt in vain because they had to be eliminated from the penalty shootout against Al-Ain after 3 of their players, namely Brozovic, Telles and Otavio, failed to execute the penalty and only Ronaldo succeeded in taking the kick.

Al-Ain assured progress to the next round of the Asian Champions League after going through the drama of the match against Al-Nassr and it must be admitted that they are a difficult opponent for Al-Nassr in this competition. I can't believe that there are so many miracles that the drama that occurred in Al-Nassr failed to progress to the next stage.

[Lidger]

Al Itithad is doing what they can, because is really complicated for the manager and the rest of the team the feel of having a magnificent star like Benzema and instead of this being a plus he is making all to being a counterweight for the team, so having their in the 4º position is a lot in this conditions.

Al-ittihad just needs a coach who can differentiate between how to treat star players and those who are not. Conflict between star players and coaches will make the club atmosphere uncomfortable. And this will not only affect the star player and also the coach. But other players will also be dragged along. I would prefer to see a coach who can figure out how to handle a club that has star players. What the Al-Ittihad coach is doing now is more similar to what MU coach Ten Hag did when Cristiano Ronaldo was still at MU. I like the current coaches of al-hilal and al-nassr who know how to deal with clubs that have many star players.

It's not all about the coach but sometimes that's up to the players they buy for their team. Al Ittihad bought Benzema and they were hoping to see a perfect performance from this experienced French superstar player like they saw from him in Real Madrid when he was playing there but he disappointed everyone and had a bad performance this season.
He was mostly injured and now it seems in the game between Al Ittihad and Al Hilal which is an important and hard match for Al Ittihad, Karim Benzema can't help his team in this great match and this can be defiantly harmful to Al Ittihad to send money for this player and get a bad result, especially when we know for Al Ittihad AFC Chmpanios League is an important and great tournament.

A player usually has no hand in getting injured, and when a club buys a player they don't care much about the fact that the player might get injured. Injuries come unexpectedly in a player's career and the player who has an injury in his career has a very bad impact on that player's career. Al Itwehad bought Karim Benzema to strengthen their attacking division but last season the player was plagued with injury for a long time due to which he did not perform well for the team but if he is fit he will surely give his best in the new season.

[Moreno233]

Ronaldo can't win the Saudi League trophy alone, he needs the team work. He can be the top scorer but he won't win the trophy if they have weak team work. Al Nassr also has low quality on the defense players. It is very obvious because they already got too many conceded goals. Although Mitrovic isn't as skillful as Ronaldo but he can optimize his ability because the team work. The striker needs the supports from all lines to perform optimally.

So many things are wrong with the team and there is no single player that can fix them except both team work and lots of technical input from the managerial angle. Their problem seems to have started from them focusing so much on Ronaldo and not on the entire team. This is the reason they score many goals are are not able to defend those goals and get the results. If they can put the kind of effort they put at scoring goals into defending the goals and maintaining their leading, they will achieve far greater results than we are seeing presently. Let the coach start with a total overhaul of the defense and the midfield, if need be, they can get new players to join them.

Al Nassr were kicked out by Al Ain hours ago. Again that match shows their defensive weakness as they scored four goals but got three conceded goals. Cristiano Ronaldo missed a very good chance when he was about 3 meters from the net. If their defense system is stronger, they would beat Al Ain already.

We can say that Cristiano Ronaldo have not been too lucky this season and with the way things are not, they might be ending this season without any trophy. There were huge expectations from supporters and the world at large that they will be able to either win the league or the AFC championship this season. Seems none of that will be happening.

[Jody.Drummer]

What happened in penalty shoot-outs are simply nightmare for Al Nassr. They have four shots and succeed only one by Ronaldo, three other players failed, Brozovic, Telles and Otávio. Brozovic is very experienced with his national team Croatia in penalty shoot-outs so this failed shot is so surprising.

It's really surprising and I don't believe that the Al Nassr team can perform so well up to now, but in this competition I think the players' performance in terms of defensive strength and cooperation between teams is not good. .
It is very unfortunate that the golden opportunity that should have been executed well by the Al Nassr players only resulted in one goal through a penalty shootout by Cristiano Ronaldo. And al Nassr must accept the fact that his team will fail to reach the semifinals tomorrow and it is possible that his hopes and achievements will only end here to become champions of the Saudi Arabian League this season.

They had to stop in this round because they failed to win in the penalty shootout. Overall, they actually played well, but after everything is determined in the penalty shootout, the chances will change to 50/50 and in the penalty shootout round there is a lot of luck for a club, and in my opinion Al Nassr is just unlucky in the Champions League Asia this season.

Al Ain also played well, they were able to provide very tight resistance to AL Nassr. After they won the first leg, they wanted to continue it in the second leg and they succeeded in doing so. At first Al Ain was surprising with the 2 goals they were able to score at the start, but Al Nassr did not remain silent, they immediately responded at the end of the first half and at the start of the second half. After that they took the lead, but their lead could only take them to extra time. And in the extra round Al Ain equalized again, before finally Al Nassr was also able to score another goal. However, Al Nassr's efforts did not bear fruit because in the penalty shootout they had to admit defeat to Al Ain.

[Slow death]

all the news channels that I've been following are talking about this defeat of Al Nassr against Al Ain, I didn't watch the games but I watched the highlights of the game and honestly I was shocked by what I saw, it was a disappointment, it seemed like Al Nassr hadn't defenses on the field and the saddest thing about this is that the difference in individual squad quality was very large, with al nassr having a great superiority. but even though al nassr had this great squad superiority, what we saw in that game was the performance of a team without quality, without ideas, without defense, with a weak attack. For example, the goals that Al Ain scored were goals that could have been avoided, it seemed that Al Nassr's goalkeeper was not paying attention to the game, honestly in my opinion Al Nassr's problem lies in the coaches that the club's management has hired

I've already talked about this many times, that these Arabs are making a serious mistake by just spending a lot of money on hiring good players and are leaving coaches aside and hiring coaches with few great achievements, Ronaldo, Mane and other good players need of having a good coach to guide them properly on the field, when Ronaldo was at Manchester United, what I'm saying was visible, at that time he played well just like he does now, but they didn't have good results because Manchester United's management hired coaches from a few professional achievements and as a result Manchester United earns nothing, even though they are a team with a lot of money. Is the same thing that happens with Al Nassr

the worst goalkeeper of all time:




Today we have AL Hilal's game against Al-Ittihad, this is the game of the second leg and as in the first leg I bet on Al Hilal to win, in this second leg I bet again on Al Hilal to win. In my opinion, Al-Ittihad is a team that has a good squad, but they lack a good coach, I heard that Benzema will not play, that was honestly something that the Arabs should have expected, because Benzema in the Madrid area has started Suffering from many consecutive injuries and in short periods of time, he already knew this would put him in a position of playing little at Real Madrid, which is why he left Real Madrid and the Arabs made a bad deal in signing him.

[X-ray]

the worst goalkeeper of all time:

Since when al nassr ever had good goal keeper? Al nassr was rarely investing in the defensive line. It also makes the gap between the attacking and the defensive line. The goal keepers of al nassr are the worst. No doubt that if al nassr can lose easily against ain. Al Nassr is nothing right now.

Today we have AL Hilal's game against Al-Ittihad, this is the game of the second leg and as in the first leg I bet on Al Hilal to win, in this second leg I bet again on Al Hilal to win. In my opinion, Al-Ittihad is a team that has a good squad, but they lack a good coach, I heard that Benzema will not play, that was honestly something that the Arabs should have expected, because Benzema in the Madrid area has started Suffering from many consecutive injuries and in short periods of time, he already knew this would put him in a position of playing little at Real Madrid, which is why he left Real Madrid and the Arabs made a bad deal in signing him.

I am sure Al Hilal will be winning; it has been a few times in a row since Al Hilal met Al itthad. Al ittihad had lost two times in a row and this is also making the situation even worst for the club. Al hilal will be obviously owning this game soon. Believe me or not al hilal will destroy al ittihad once agian.

[onecall123]

What happened in penalty shoot-outs are simply nightmare for Al Nassr. They have four shots and succeed only one by Ronaldo, three other players failed, Brozovic, Telles and Otávio. Brozovic is very experienced with his national team Croatia in penalty shoot-outs so this failed shot is so surprising.

It's really surprising and I don't believe that the Al Nassr team can perform so well up to now, but in this competition I think the players' performance in terms of defensive strength and cooperation between teams is not good. .
It is very unfortunate that the golden opportunity that should have been executed well by the Al Nassr players only resulted in one goal through a penalty shootout by Cristiano Ronaldo. And al Nassr must accept the fact that his team will fail to reach the semifinals tomorrow and it is possible that his hopes and achievements will only end here to become champions of the Saudi Arabian League this season.

They had to stop in this round because they failed to win in the penalty shootout. Overall, they actually played well, but after everything is determined in the penalty shootout, the chances will change to 50/50 and in the penalty shootout round there is a lot of luck for a club, and in my opinion Al Nassr is just unlucky in the Champions League Asia this season.

Al Ain also played well, they were able to provide very tight resistance to AL Nassr. After they won the first leg, they wanted to continue it in the second leg and they succeeded in doing so. At first Al Ain was surprising with the 2 goals they were able to score at the start, but Al Nassr did not remain silent, they immediately responded at the end of the first half and at the start of the second half. After that they took the lead, but their lead could only take them to extra time. And in the extra round Al Ain equalized again, before finally Al Nassr was also able to score another goal. However, Al Nassr's efforts did not bear fruit because in the penalty shootout they had to admit defeat to Al Ain.

If Ronaldo had scored in the open net, the outcome might have been different. Despite being gifted a penalty shootout, he couldn't lead Al-Nassr to the quarterfinals. The penalty shootout made the chances 50/50, and Ronaldo's team, Al-Nassr, was unlucky. They lost the game to Al Ain in the quarterfinals on penalties.
In my opinion, Ronaldo should have taken the first penalty to boost morale among his teammates, but unfortunately, it didn't happen. Al-Nassr players seem to struggle with penalties. It's becoming evident that Al-Nassr relies heavily on Talisca, both technically and mentally.
I guess many bets favored Al-Nassr, but in the end, they ended up favoring the bookies.

[criptoevangelista]

“I am happy” - Cristiano Ronaldo affirms his commitment to Al-Nassr following their shock defeat to Al-Raed

Well, he's saying that he is happy. But we all know that he would have been more happy if he was playing in a club that is taking part in bigger competitions. Don't get me wrong, if through him, Al Nassr can actually go forward and Play in the Champions League, it is going to be incredible. But they will have to show incredible performance for that as well. But one thing I will say is that he is definitely more happy than he was at Manchester United.

For Ronaldo some time ago, returning to Manchester United was like being in hell, but at least he was finally more confident in voicing his concerns and leaving at the right time. No one expected that one of the legends of the Red Devils would have to leave in such a way and the Manchester United owner who they knew was just marketing by relying on Ronaldo's big name to make more money.

Meanwhile, for Ronaldo in the Saudi League, apart from being able to earn hundreds of millions of euros per season, on the other hand, it also helps promote the Saudi League. The result is that quite a lot of people are interested and it also opens the gates for European players to continue their football careers here with much bigger payouts. I am curious whether Ronaldo's contract at Al-Nassr will be extended or not considering that his contract will end in 2025.

From what I read on the internet, his wife said that he will play for a maximum of 1 more year, perhaps ending his career in 2025 at the latest.

Now with All-Nassr's elimination in the Asian Champions League, and ending his chances of competing in the Club World Cup, 2025 could be his last year as a professional footballer.

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From what I read on the internet, his wife said that he will play for a maximum of 1 more year, perhaps ending his career in 2025 at the latest.

Now with All-Nassr's elimination in the Asian Champions League, and ending his chances of competing in the Club World Cup, this could be his last year as a professional football player.

He knows that chance to receive very good salary offer like from Al-Nassr will nearly never happen again so he will complete the current contract to maximize his pocket.

He also knows that returning to Europe is risky and he will receive very little offers from big clubs or no offer at all. He himself does not want to reduce his value and is not ready to play as a substitution so it's harder for him to find a new club in Europe.

By these difficulties, continue playing in Saudi Arabia is his best option and he has one more year contract so it's perfect to finish it first. Next year, no Euro, no World Cup so he will have less concern about those big tournaments.

[makishart]

The result from al nassr makes me sure that about how far the superiority owned by al hilal this season compared to the al nassr. It seems like that hilal will be going through this ways for several seasons. It means that hilal will have bigger chances in winning multiple trophies in a row in the upcoming seasons.
Things have changed a lot since Mitrovic and Savic joined the club. Al Hilal played more structuredly than before, proving that al Nassr is not even good compared to Al Hilal, which was fully able to maintain its performance consistently. It's time for al hilal to show to the all of SPL fans the real boss.
Al nassr was lucky enough to win a good trophy last seaso but this season is very different. AL hilal will be owning al ittihad in the next game that will begin soon. Al ittihad may not able to perform use its best squad and this will also make the club to perform better.
I have predicted that if al ittihad probably lose with big scores against al ittihad. Al ittihad is not performing quite well this season. Many people are still questioning the performance from al ittihad and al nassr. Their transfers were not solving the main problems owned by those clubs.

[Richbased]

From what I read on the internet, his wife said that he will play for a maximum of 1 more year, perhaps ending his career in 2025 at the latest.

Now with All-Nassr's elimination in the Asian Champions League, and ending his chances of competing in the Club World Cup, 2025 could be his last year as a professional footballer.

Perhaps Cristiano Ronaldo has made a fulfilled career in his football history right from Manchester united to Real Madrid and Juventus, now Al Nassr. Regardless of the fact that they are out of the Asian champions league, Cristiano Ronaldo made a very great impact in the competition and even being the only player to score for Al Nassr in the penalty shootout between them and Al Ain even rings a bell what an important player he is.

Since Cristiano Ronaldo's time at Al Nassr, he has made football in Saudi Arabia gain recognition as some of his die hard fans moved along with him to Saudi Arabia just to watch him play and his presence in Saudi league has also aided in boosting Saudi Arabia's economy as well so if he ends his football career at Al Nassr, it's all good for the Portuguese professional footballer.

[asriloni]

al nasr with his ronaldo was eliminated from the AFC champions cup. lost to al ain a club from the uni emirates of arabia. lost on penalties and what was sad for ronaldo fans in the penalty shootout only ronaldo was able to score for al nasr.

I was also aware of this result. Ronaldo missed the golden chance, and he should be disappointed with his performance in that game. AL Nassr was able to score a few goals, but the performance of AL Nassr's defensive line is not that good now.
Club was losing a chance to get the trophy this season. This probably the last chance can be gotten by ronaldo and his club. Al nassr performed so badly as the defenders let ains scored some goals. Again and again, many people warned that how weak the defensive line of al nassr.
Hernan crespo once again kicked him out form the competition.

The main problem owned by Al Nassr has never changed. The club consistently attacks its opponent, but it doesn't even pay attention to the performance of the defenders, which makes the situation even more difficult when Ain scores a few goals to equalize the score against Al Nassr.

[Volgastallion]

I dont know what to really think, maybe he can be happy because he is very stric and in Saudi Arabia you can have less temptation than in the west, but come on a man like Cristiano in his second year not winning anything.... he surely is not gonna be in a good mental mood this days.

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al nasr with his ronaldo was eliminated from the AFC champions cup. lost to al ain a club from the uni emirates of arabia. lost on penalties and what was sad for ronaldo fans in the penalty shootout only ronaldo was able to score for al nasr.

The hopes of al nassr fans to get the Asian champions trophy were actually very open when the match ended in 4x4 aggregate, but unfortunately disaster had to come for al nassr when all three of their players failed to take penalties well while destroying al nassr only hope of winning the championship trophy this season, Al nassr has officially been eliminated from all competitions they participated in this season without a single trophy they won.

The failure of all that certainly made Ronaldo disappointed with the performance of his team but I think nevertheless Ronaldo can still be proud because as far as he still has a chance to win the individual award as the top scorer of the Arab League, so far we cannot doubt the capacity of the attackers possessed by Al Nassr with Ronaldo and Mane up front,  But as you said, it is time for Al Nassr to evaluate their defence which this season has been very fragile and it shows when they are the number 8 team that has conceded quite a lot of goals at 33, in contrast to Al Hilal who have only Conceded 12 goals so far.

Btw I just found out that Hernan Crespo coaching the Al Nain club, isn't he Hernan Crespo who used to be a Serie A star of the parma club?