Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

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Ronaldo extended one more season makes sense for not only Al Nassr, but for the whole league as well. Because this league got its attention since Ronaldo joined, I keep putting the emphasis on the same thing, this page did not existed on this forum before Ronaldo went there, literally started at January 4th of 2023, meaning 1.5 or so years ago, and it's now at 700 pages. Without Ronaldo this would not happen, remove Ronaldo from their history, and NONE of their transfers would get this much attention, not an injured Neymar, not a missing Benzema, nobody.

But because they got Ronaldo, we reached at 700 pages of chat here, all thanks to him and it's clear that he is a big name. You want to know how big? Messi joined MLS, much younger, could even maybe win it, where is the topic for MLS in this topic? Nowhere to be found. That doesn't mean that he will be a good player at 40 years old, but at least he will keep the attention on this league and that's why they are paying him.

It's clear that Cristiano Ronaldo should extend his deal with Al Nassr. Not only does he fill arenas with people, but he also makes the SPL a worldwide show. It's crazy that he scored 70 goals in 64 games. That's not just playing football; that's dominating. And those rumours about the SPL getting huge TV deals? That has a lot to do with Ronaldo, for sure

Even though Messi is younger and plays for the MLS, Ronaldo has made the SPL famous around the world. He's the perfect example of how one player can make a game better. Look, Ronaldo is a football star who can sell a lot of shoes. He's showing that age doesn't matter and that just having him on the pitch can change the game for teams that want to be known around the world

[rendravolt]

This was not the result that Al-Ahli wanted but at least they played very well to be able to hold a 3-3 draw against Austrian club Grazer AK in the pre-season match. Although Al-Ahli could have suffered a defeat but they seemed to work very hard to avoid that result and thanks to two goals scored by Al Rashidi and Firmino in the final minutes they were finally saved from defeat.

With the end of the fourth pre-season match, Al-Ahli have a good record without ever feeling a single defeat with a result of 3 wins and 1 draw. This could be a good capital for them who will soon face Al-Hilal in the Saudi Super Cup on August 13 and it is hoped that they can perform well again considering that Al-Hilal is a team that is very hungry for the title.

[beerlover]

The US Major League Soccer has a cap on the earnings of players. This rule allows clubs to pay only three players above the stipulated yearly earning of $612,500 per player. I will assume that this policy will make the league less attractive to quality players. This is because only three top players can earn a very high amount. Messi is earning in the MLS is as much as he would have earned in Saudi Arabia, so he is comfortable. But the US league will not develop like the SPL league except they attract more superstars.

Ronaldo might be the dominant force in the Gulf League, but the league is gradually developing to become self-sustaining. The league now has an array of players and coaches that is making the league exciting. And the country is still wooing more quality players to make the league entertaining. If Ronaldo leaves, the league might feel the effect but it still has some players that will keep sustaining it.

While that is definitely not something that allows the league to grow faster, it also keeps the competition going, NBA has something similar where there is a cap on what players could earn. This makes the teams profitable as much as they can, some are not profitable even with that, but if you let it be wide open, then teams like Lakers would just pay 100 million to everyone and get all the great players, when you have a cap then it's limited.

Of course other leagues in football world do not have that, which makes it questionable for everyone and I understand that, it is not really that crazy and I understand the logic, there isn't anything wrong with that, but I still think that we should be considering MLS doing something better for their team. While Saudi teams are losing money so fast and not making it back, MLS teams are not in negative all that much, most are even in profit. That's the difference between the two leagues, caring about finances.

[Frankolala]

Ronaldo extended one more season makes sense for not only Al Nassr, but for the whole league as well. Because this league got its attention since Ronaldo joined, I keep putting the emphasis on the same thing, this page did not existed on this forum before Ronaldo went there, literally started at January 4th of 2023, meaning 1.5 or so years ago, and it's now at 700 pages. Without Ronaldo this would not happen, remove Ronaldo from their history, and NONE of their transfers would get this much attention, not an injured Neymar, not a missing Benzema, nobody.

But because they got Ronaldo, we reached at 700 pages of chat here, all thanks to him and it's clear that he is a big name. You want to know how big? Messi joined MLS, much younger, could even maybe win it, where is the topic for MLS in this topic? Nowhere to be found. That doesn't mean that he will be a good player at 40 years old, but at least he will keep the attention on this league and that's why they are paying him.

It's clear that Cristiano Ronaldo should extend his deal with Al Nassr. Not only does he fill arenas with people, but he also makes the SPL a worldwide show. It's crazy that he scored 70 goals in 64 games. That's not just playing football; that's dominating. And those rumours about the SPL getting huge TV deals? That has a lot to do with Ronaldo, for sure

Even though Messi is younger and plays for the MLS, Ronaldo has made the SPL famous around the world. He's the perfect example of how one player can make a game better. Look, Ronaldo is a football star who can sell a lot of shoes. He's showing that age doesn't matter and that just having him on the pitch can change the game for teams that want to be known around the world

Ronaldo is influencial because he has fans all over the world due to his outstanding skills and achievements in football. He has paid the price in football and that is why you see that he has the capacity of turning an isolated league to a popular one.

If not for Ronaldo, no one will hear more of SPL or even watch their matches but with Ronaldo in the league, it made the league famous and also made some European great players to settle down for SPL unlike before. Ronaldo is a legend.

[Palakka]

It's clear that Cristiano Ronaldo should extend his deal with Al Nassr. Not only does he fill arenas with people, but he also makes the SPL a worldwide show. It's crazy that he scored 70 goals in 64 games. That's not just playing football; that's dominating. And those rumours about the SPL getting huge TV deals? That has a lot to do with Ronaldo, for sure

Even though Messi is younger and plays for the MLS, Ronaldo has made the SPL famous around the world. He's the perfect example of how one player can make a game better. Look, Ronaldo is a football star who can sell a lot of shoes. He's showing that age doesn't matter and that just having him on the pitch can change the game for teams that want to be known around the world

Ronaldo is influencial because he has fans all over the world due to his outstanding skills and achievements in football. He has paid the price in football and that is why you see that he has the capacity of turning an isolated league to a popular one.

If not for Ronaldo, no one will hear more of SPL or even watch their matches but with Ronaldo in the league, it made the league famous and also made some European great players to settle down for SPL unlike before. Ronaldo is a legend.

Ronaldo still has a year remaining on his contract with Al Nassr and that means next season he will still play for Al Nassr, So far we know that Ronaldo is a player who is hungry for championship trophies so to make Ronaldo want to extend his contract with Al Nassr then Al Nassr must can win next season, in my opinion, the issue of extending Ronaldo contract may really depend on Al Nassr'performance next season and If Al Nassr continues to fail to win the championship trophy of course Ronaldo will most likely leave for another team although he comfortable at Al Nassr At the moment.

Ronaldo has had a lot of impact on Arab football since his arrival, not only attracting the interest of football fans but in fact Ronaldo's arrival also opened the way for former European players to continue their careers in Saudi Arabia at this time, in my opinion previously the Saudi Arabian league was not a league that had prestige and popularity among European footballers and this is none other than because of the very strict laws and regulations in Saudi Arabia so that footballers are reluctant to play in Arabia which applies Islamic law, but after Ronaldo arrival it actually opened the eyes of European footballers and fans to see if Saudi Arabia is not what they think all this time.

[Uruhara]

Ronaldo is influencial because he has fans all over the world due to his outstanding skills and achievements in football. He has paid the price in football and that is why you see that he has the capacity of turning an isolated league to a popular one.

If not for Ronaldo, no one will hear more of SPL or even watch their matches but with Ronaldo in the league, it made the league famous and also made some European great players to settle down for SPL unlike before. Ronaldo is a legend.

Well that's right. I even started watching the SPL because I followed Cristiano Ronaldo to this league. I am curious about his progress in the SPL, especially at the Al-nassr club. Although in the end I got used to watching this league which started to feel more exciting from season to season after Cristiano Ronaldo arrived. This legendary player indeed has a very big influence. And yes, even other European players didn't hesitate to come here after the legend first came here. Wherever C.Ronaldo goes, all the media will follow him. Including all the fans.

[CroverNo01]

Ronaldo is influencial because he has fans all over the world due to his outstanding skills and achievements in football. He has paid the price in football and that is why you see that he has the capacity of turning an isolated league to a popular one.

If not for Ronaldo, no one will hear more of SPL or even watch their matches but with Ronaldo in the league, it made the league famous and also made some European great players to settle down for SPL unlike before. Ronaldo is a legend.

SPL is challenging but with Cristiano Ronaldo presence, it's consider easy and not all European players that sign for SPL clubs are able to maintain their peak form from Europe. This is entirely another tough difficulty League for them. Ronaldo is popular and have made huge contributions to football in the present era. He's the best thing that have ever happen to Saudi Pro League and also becomes the first top player to mention in Saudi Arabia.

[klidex]

Last season Al-Ahli was a team that was promoted to the SPL and immediately made thorough preparations in the transfer market by bringing in many European star players to their club. And the result was that Al-Ahli immediately managed to finish in 3rd place in the SPL standings. And I think there is something interesting about one of the teams being promoted to the SPL this season. Because it seems they are also taking the same steps as Al-ahli in making preparations by bringing in many European star players. Namely Al Qadsiah, which they have even succeeded in bringing in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and several other European star players such as Nacho Fernández, who we also know as one of the legendary defenders at Real Madrid and now he is at the Al-Qadsiah club with Aubameyang.

I think Al-Qadsiah will be a newcomer in the season whose strength should be taken into account by other teams in the SPL.

Yes, I also did not expect Al Ahli to compete well last season, even their performance was better than Al Ittihad who became the SPL champion in the previous season, indeed indirectly Al Nassr, Al Ittihad and Al Hilal taught other SPL clubs to do the same thing as other elite clubs to recruit European players who have good potential so that they do not lag behind in the SPL competition.

I am also curious about Al Qadsyah's performance this season with the arrival of several foreign players who will make their performance different and if they succeed in becoming a dark horse this season it will make the competition in the SPL even more interesting to watch.

[rendravolt]

Maybe this is a victory that Al-Ittihad should be proud of because it was not a weak team that they defeated but last season's Serie A champion, Inter. But indeed, regardless of the results, this is only a pre-season match, but this is a good record where from the previous 4 pre-season matches, Al-Ittihad always suffered defeat.

If you look at the existing line-up, Inter actually played with their main squad, and so did Al-Ittihad. However, if this was an official match, Al-Ittihad would definitely lose badly. Moussa Diaby was finally able to score a goal and no doubt the two goals were scored by him directly. With this, the pre-season match for Al-Ittihad has finished and I hope all the matches can be used as evaluation material by coach Laurent Blanc to prepare for the upcoming Saudi pro league match.

[mammusu]

Maybe this is a victory that Al-Ittihad should be proud of because it was not a weak team that they defeated but last season's Serie A champion, Inter. But indeed, regardless of the results, this is only a pre-season match, but this is a good record where from the previous 4 pre-season matches, Al-Ittihad always suffered defeat.

If you look at the existing line-up, Inter actually played with their main squad, and so did Al-Ittihad. However, if this was an official match, Al-Ittihad would definitely lose badly. Moussa Diaby was finally able to score a goal and no doubt the two goals were scored by him directly. With this, the pre-season match for Al-Ittihad has finished and I hope all the matches can be used as evaluation material by coach Laurent Blanc to prepare for the upcoming Saudi pro league match.

Previously Al Ittihad had bad results in their last two matches from teams whose quality was below them, but looking at their performance against Intermilan yesterday, the Al Ittihad squad should really be proud of their game, especially Intermilan also fielded the majority of their main squad in that match, Al Ittihad squad performed quite well and even from the start of the match they were able to surprise Intermilan defense through Diaby and Aouar in the match, I think Al Ittihad should cAn won more from 2 goal, but Sommer, De Vrij, Thuram and Pavard were quite good in that match and were able to suppress Al Ittihad's impressive game, but even though they performed quite impressively against Inter Milan, Al Ittihad still needed a little improvement in their defense which didn't look too solid in that match, even though they were able to end the match without conceding a single goal in the match.

[Fuso.hp]

Currently there is no certainty whether Ronaldo will accept the contract extension offer because he is quite old but it would be an honor for Ronaldo and Al Nassr if both parties accept the offer.
It can be predicted that the last club before he retired was Al Nassr, the club he would defend before retiring and Ronaldo has also said that his son has also entered a Saudi Arabian football club and this is a sign that Ronaldo is very comfortable with Al Nassr and besides that it is also a sign that Ronaldo is likely to accept Al Nassr's offer if he will extend his contract.

Ronaldo to his current club. Such decision stated that he wants to end his football career for Al Nasser and he wants to play his last match for Al Nasser. Basically, when Ronaldo was going through a bad period, all the other clubs turned their backs on him, but Al Nasser extended a friendly hand to him and signed him back to the field. Although Ronaldo performed poorly for Al Nasser, Al Nasser always trusted him, that's why Ronaldo wants to announce the end of his football career for this club. Ronaldo's performance is completely ruined or in such a bad condition that he cannot be kept in the eleven but Ronaldo did not come so I at least believe that Al Nasser must extend the contract with Cristiano Ronaldo until 2026 and this may be the last contract of Ronaldo's football career.

[Blitzboy]

Ronaldo extended one more season makes sense for not only Al Nassr, but for the whole league as well. Because this league got its attention since Ronaldo joined, I keep putting the emphasis on the same thing, this page did not existed on this forum before Ronaldo went there, literally started at January 4th of 2023, meaning 1.5 or so years ago, and it's now at 700 pages. Without Ronaldo this would not happen, remove Ronaldo from their history, and NONE of their transfers would get this much attention, not an injured Neymar, not a missing Benzema, nobody.

But because they got Ronaldo, we reached at 700 pages of chat here, all thanks to him and it's clear that he is a big name. You want to know how big? Messi joined MLS, much younger, could even maybe win it, where is the topic for MLS in this topic? Nowhere to be found. That doesn't mean that he will be a good player at 40 years old, but at least he will keep the attention on this league and that's why they are paying him.

It's clear that Cristiano Ronaldo should extend his deal with Al Nassr. Not only does he fill arenas with people, but he also makes the SPL a worldwide show. It's crazy that he scored 70 goals in 64 games. That's not just playing football; that's dominating. And those rumours about the SPL getting huge TV deals? That has a lot to do with Ronaldo, for sure

Even though Messi is younger and plays for the MLS, Ronaldo has made the SPL famous around the world. He's the perfect example of how one player can make a game better. Look, Ronaldo is a football star who can sell a lot of shoes. He's showing that age doesn't matter and that just having him on the pitch can change the game for teams that want to be known around the world

Ronaldo is, everyone knows, a winner. He arrived at Al Nassr not only for his pay. He came to claim. Al Nassr has to raise their performance. Although their gaining attention is fantastic, attention does not win trophies. They have to show on the field performance. Should they fail, be not shocked if Ronaldo begins exploring elsewhere. He is not the kind to compromise for mediocrity.

The football community has opened many eyes over this whole Ronaldo scenario. The Saudi league is now a real choice available to players. For Al Nassr, this is excellent news; it also means they have much to prove. They must demonstrate that they can compete on and off the field at the top level. For Al Nassr, the Ronaldo era might be a golden age only if they grab the chance. Its time for them to quit chatting and get winning started. Ronaldo expects this, and the supporters are due this as well.

[Gallar]

Last season Al-Ahli was a team that was promoted to the SPL and immediately made thorough preparations in the transfer market by bringing in many European star players to their club. And the result was that Al-Ahli immediately managed to finish in 3rd place in the SPL standings. And I think there is something interesting about one of the teams being promoted to the SPL this season. Because it seems they are also taking the same steps as Al-ahli in making preparations by bringing in many European star players. Namely Al Qadsiah, which they have even succeeded in bringing in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and several other European star players such as Nacho Fernández, who we also know as one of the legendary defenders at Real Madrid and now he is at the Al-Qadsiah club with Aubameyang.

I think Al-Qadsiah will be a newcomer in the season whose strength should be taken into account by other teams in the SPL.

Yes, the squad that Al Qadsiah currently has is worthy of being taken into account by other clubs in the Saudi Arabian League. because as you said, Al Qadsiah has currently bought a lot of great players. Maybe with the players that Al Qadsiah currently has, there is a big possibility that they can compete for the SPL title next season. The reason is, the players currently recruited by Al Qadsiah are indeed great players. These players are

• Nacho Fernandes
• Aubameyang
• Ezequiel Fernandes
• Julian Quinones
• Koen Casteel
• Nahitan Nandez

If we look at the track records of these players, they all have a lot of playing experience, because these players are national team players in their respective countries. So it wouldn't be wrong to say that Al Qadsiah could be a tough competitor to become a potential champion in the SPL next season. The reason is that Al Qadsiah really prepared his troops with very careful calculations. Maybe apart from the players I mentioned above, Al Qadsiah could still be targeting other players. What do you think?

[Webetcoins]

Maybe this is a victory that Al-Ittihad should be proud of because it was not a weak team that they defeated but last season's Serie A champion, Inter. But indeed, regardless of the results, this is only a pre-season match, but this is a good record where from the previous 4 pre-season matches, Al-Ittihad always suffered defeat.

If you look at the existing line-up, Inter actually played with their main squad, and so did Al-Ittihad. However, if this was an official match, Al-Ittihad would definitely lose badly. Moussa Diaby was finally able to score a goal and no doubt the two goals were scored by him directly. With this, the pre-season match for Al-Ittihad has finished and I hope all the matches can be used as evaluation material by coach Laurent Blanc to prepare for the upcoming Saudi pro league match.

Al Ittihad champions of Saudi League at the end of season 2023 were not on track in next season and having fourth spot things were badly down, and they fail to bring them on better place but now in coming season they are trying their best for having improvement in their current preseason games they are having few defeats but at the end they were able to win against Inter Milan this is going to be good for them because this win can give them good confidence and having good performance in this season.

Moussa Diaby score for the Ittihad and done good job even still this is going to be challenging for them in coming season because all teams are preparing well for having good performance, and they could be also at their best Laurent Blanc and Karim Benzema are going to be had some recovery from their last season failure and bad performance now we have to wait for the start of the new season.

[Uruhara]

Maybe this is a victory that Al-Ittihad should be proud of because it was not a weak team that they defeated but last season's Serie A champion, Inter. But indeed, regardless of the results, this is only a pre-season match, but this is a good record where from the previous 4 pre-season matches, Al-Ittihad always suffered defeat.

If you look at the existing line-up, Inter actually played with their main squad, and so did Al-Ittihad. However, if this was an official match, Al-Ittihad would definitely lose badly. Moussa Diaby was finally able to score a goal and no doubt the two goals were scored by him directly. With this, the pre-season match for Al-Ittihad has finished and I hope all the matches can be used as evaluation material by coach Laurent Blanc to prepare for the upcoming Saudi pro league match.

Well, this is quite a proud result for this team even though it is only in pre-season. And through this match Al-ittihad also managed to prove that they had made a very successful transfer this time. Namely, they were lucky to bring Moussa Diaby to their team from Aston Villa. Because in the pre-season match against Inter Milan we have seen this player make a big contribution to Al-ittihad. Because Moussa Diaby was immediately able to make Brace in the match against Inter Milan. He scored the first goal in the 25th minute and then scored the second goal in the 47th minute. And thanks to the two goals scored by Moussa Diaby, Al-ittihad managed to win. This is just a pre-season game. But I was quite happy to see Al-ittihad able to win against a team as strong as Inter Milan even though Inter Milan did not play with their full strength.

[Popkon6]

Maybe this is a victory that Al-Ittihad should be proud of because it was not a weak team that they defeated but last season's Serie A champion, Inter. But indeed, regardless of the results, this is only a pre-season match, but this is a good record where from the previous 4 pre-season matches, Al-Ittihad always suffered defeat.

If you look at the existing line-up, Inter actually played with their main squad, and so did Al-Ittihad. However, if this was an official match, Al-Ittihad would definitely lose badly. Moussa Diaby was finally able to score a goal and no doubt the two goals were scored by him directly. With this, the pre-season match for Al-Ittihad has finished and I hope all the matches can be used as evaluation material by coach Laurent Blanc to prepare for the upcoming Saudi pro league match.

Well, this is quite a proud result for this team even though it is only in pre-season. And through this match Al-ittihad also managed to prove that they had made a very successful transfer this time. Namely, they were lucky to bring Moussa Diaby to their team from Aston Villa. Because in the pre-season match against Inter Milan we have seen this player make a big contribution to Al-ittihad. Because Moussa Diaby was immediately able to make Brace in the match against Inter Milan. He scored the first goal in the 25th minute and then scored the second goal in the 47th minute. And thanks to the two goals scored by Moussa Diaby, Al-ittihad managed to win. This is just a pre-season game. But I was quite happy to see Al-ittihad able to win against a team as strong as Inter Milan even though Inter Milan did not play with their full strength.

Inter Milan is definitely a strong team but I never imagined losing to Al Ittihad like this and no gambler would believe it. Inter is one of the first teams to use new players while not performing at full strength. Because among all the teams in the Saudi League, Al Ittihad is one of the teams that we compare with the normal teams.

 But since it was played against Inter, we could never compare it and the stakes in this game were heavily in favor of Inter. A lot of gamblers lost out here because Inter didn't use their old strengths.

[Jody.Drummer]

Currently there is no certainty whether Ronaldo will accept the contract extension offer because he is quite old but it would be an honor for Ronaldo and Al Nassr if both parties accept the offer.
It can be predicted that the last club before he retired was Al Nassr, the club he would defend before retiring and Ronaldo has also said that his son has also entered a Saudi Arabian football club and this is a sign that Ronaldo is very comfortable with Al Nassr and besides that it is also a sign that Ronaldo is likely to accept Al Nassr's offer if he will extend his contract.

Ronaldo to his current club. Such decision stated that he wants to end his football career for Al Nasser and he wants to play his last match for Al Nasser. Basically, when Ronaldo was going through a bad period, all the other clubs turned their backs on him, but Al Nasser extended a friendly hand to him and signed him back to the field. Although Ronaldo performed poorly for Al Nasser, Al Nasser always trusted him, that's why Ronaldo wants to announce the end of his football career for this club. Ronaldo's performance is completely ruined or in such a bad condition that he cannot be kept in the eleven but Ronaldo did not come so I at least believe that Al Nasser must extend the contract with Cristiano Ronaldo until 2026 and this may be the last contract of Ronaldo's football career.

Previously I thought that Ronaldo would retire at the club where he played, Sporting. But now I feel that he will end his career in the Saudi Pro League, precisely at Al Nassr. Yes you are right, when Ronaldo was having trouble finding a club after being kicked out of Manchester United, Al Nassr came and gave him a contract with a good value too. Not only that, Ronaldo himself can prove that he is still worthy even though he has not been able to provide an achievement for his club, but that is not his fault.

If both agree to a new contract then he will play longer, but we do not know when Ronaldo will decide to retire and he could wait until the 2026 World Cup. I think Ronaldo still has the ambition to bring Al Nassr to become champions in the Saudi Pro League, and with his ambition still as big as that, then maybe he will extend his contract at least until 2026.

[cryptoWODL]

Currently there is no certainty whether Ronaldo will accept the contract extension offer because he is quite old but it would be an honor for Ronaldo and Al Nassr if both parties accept the offer.
It can be predicted that the last club before he retired was Al Nassr, the club he would defend before retiring and Ronaldo has also said that his son has also entered a Saudi Arabian football club and this is a sign that Ronaldo is very comfortable with Al Nassr and besides that it is also a sign that Ronaldo is likely to accept Al Nassr's offer if he will extend his contract.

Ronaldo to his current club. Such decision stated that he wants to end his football career for Al Nasser and he wants to play his last match for Al Nasser. Basically, when Ronaldo was going through a bad period, all the other clubs turned their backs on him, but Al Nasser extended a friendly hand to him and signed him back to the field. Although Ronaldo performed poorly for Al Nasser, Al Nasser always trusted him, that's why Ronaldo wants to announce the end of his football career for this club. Ronaldo's performance is completely ruined or in such a bad condition that he cannot be kept in the eleven but Ronaldo did not come so I at least believe that Al Nasser must extend the contract with Cristiano Ronaldo until 2026 and this may be the last contract of Ronaldo's football career.

Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the best strikers of all time yet he rejoined his old club Manchester United after leaving Real Madrid. Even when he was released from there, it was very difficult to find his club as no club wanted to sign him at that time. Maybe he had to face such problems mainly due to his out of form.

While Catalan, European, English Premier League, Bundesliga Premier League, Italian Premier League clubs were turning their backs on him, Saudi Pro League club Al Nasser took notice of him He was even signed by the owner of that club to play for that club. There he may spend the last time of his career. Because he is already too old and can't even play like before, so there is no possibility of him being bought by any club later. Moreover, it is a credit to the Saudi Pro League that they were the first to sign a world-class striker of such reputation as Ronaldo. Before this, there was no best player like him in this league.

[rahmad2nd]

Last season Al-Ahli was a team that was promoted to the SPL and immediately made thorough preparations in the transfer market by bringing in many European star players to their club. And the result was that Al-Ahli immediately managed to finish in 3rd place in the SPL standings. And I think there is something interesting about one of the teams being promoted to the SPL this season. Because it seems they are also taking the same steps as Al-ahli in making preparations by bringing in many European star players. Namely Al Qadsiah, which they have even succeeded in bringing in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and several other European star players such as Nacho Fernández, who we also know as one of the legendary defenders at Real Madrid and now he is at the Al-Qadsiah club with Aubameyang.

I think Al-Qadsiah will be a newcomer in the season whose strength should be taken into account by other teams in the SPL.

IMO, it seems like Al-Ahli needs a reshuffle in their squad. I mean if they want to compete closely with other strong teams like Al Hilal and Al Nassr, this team must be much more productive in order to compete closely with the other two elite clubs. if we compare, the team architected by Matthias Jaissle has a fairly large gap when compared to the teams occupying the runner-up and first positions. Al-Ahli is 17 pawns away from Al Nassr, 31 points from Al Hilal. but at least, they were able to break into the third position in the LPS rankings. quite good for a promotion team, although they also brought in big names from Europe. talking about the Al Qadsiah squad, this team also has abundant finances. because, this club is under the auspices of one of the state-owned oil companies. that's why, they had no trouble bringing in Nacho Fernandez and Aubameyang. there are also several other players that they brought in, even though they don't have big names. let's see, whether they are able to overtake and break into the top four in the Saudi Pro League table. but, I think they still need some other newcomers who can be relied on. at least, to be able to compete with the top teams in the Saudi League, Al Qadsiah at least needs a depth of players that is not much different from its rivals.

[Slow death]

Maybe this is a victory that Al-Ittihad should be proud of because it was not a weak team that they defeated but last season's Serie A champion, Inter. But indeed, regardless of the results, this is only a pre-season match, but this is a good record where from the previous 4 pre-season matches, Al-Ittihad always suffered defeat.

If you look at the existing line-up, Inter actually played with their main squad, and so did Al-Ittihad. However, if this was an official match, Al-Ittihad would definitely lose badly. Moussa Diaby was finally able to score a goal and no doubt the two goals were scored by him directly. With this, the pre-season match for Al-Ittihad has finished and I hope all the matches can be used as evaluation material by coach Laurent Blanc to prepare for the upcoming Saudi pro league match.

I had the opportunity to watch the highlights of the game and Inter wasted some good goal opportunities, it didn't even look like the Inter they were playing, the Inter striker made a lot of mistakes. But it wasn't just the Inter striker who was making mistakes, I saw Benzema also being a disaster, it didn't even seem like Benzema who didn't make mistakes at Real Madrid, he just had to be close to the opposing team's goalkeeper and he would score a goal, there were many games in which Benzema saved Real Madrid. But in this Al-Ittihad team, Benzema is very absent, the mistakes he has made are unbelievable, see some of the mistakes he made in this game



 



 

Inter's defense made a lot of mistakes, probably because Benjamin Pavard wasn't playing, while Inter's attack was missing Lautaro Martínez. If these two players were in the squad and Inter played seriously, I think Inter could have won the game. Al-Ittihad will need to play well this season if they are serious about winning the Saudi Professional League and I honestly see this as an extremely difficult task, especially with Benzema's lack of form. I can see Al-Ittihad finishing in third place next season.