Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

[BRINIRHA]

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Cristiano Ronaldo is aged 38 and he's still doing quite brilliance in Saudi Pro League. He's such a confident and influential player the pitch, not just the pitch but it also extends to the entire team performance and big positive impact on the team he plays for. Ronaldo is not relenting in his performance and he's capable of doing the impossible, which I must fall on his goals tally this season alone. Ronaldo bagged 54 goals in calender of 2023 and he surpassed all of his opponents with clear stats, that alone proved him to be the best when compared to his mates and the new generation of football.

That is true, but he is currently not playing at the top leagues, so his performance might drop in the future, also considering his age, because he is definitely now in his biological prime any more.

He will continue to score of course, but I don't think we will see him at the next world cup, he is basically retiring in the SPL in my mind.

It's a shame that this legendary player won't be playing on the field for long. Because now he is 38 years and 11 months old. Or in the next month CR7 will be 39 years old. Which means that when the SPL restarts, CR7 will be 39 years old. Although CR7 has indeed been able to maintain his stamina and fitness all this time. But still, age won't lie in the end. And in the next season, maybe CR7 will experience a decline. But it's great to hear that this year he has succeeded in being an old player but still able to beat the young players in scoring goals. I also think that CR7 is likely to retire in the SPL. And that's a good thing but I really want to see him succeed in winning his last trophy with his current club.

But however, until now there has been no young player who has matched CR7 in his youth. In fact, I started to like football with my husband because of how hot the football news was when CR7 was still at Man Utd.

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[Strongkored]

The Asian Cup championship means that the Saudi Pro League competition will take a break for one month and will resume in February, and Ittihad FC's first match in the Saudi Pro League will be against Al Ta'ee a team that is relatively weak and which also experienced three consecutive defeats like Ittihad before the league it's a holiday.
Ittihad FC must be able to win this match which can be considered easy, because even though Ittihad FC is not in a very good condition, their players are much better than their opponents and they also need to end this streak of bad results to improve their ranking even though it is impossible to defend the title, and Karim Benzema, who is facing difficult times at this club, has the opportunity to score a goal to silence the criticism of him a little because of some of the bad results obtained by the defending champion.

[Belarge]

It's a shame that this legendary player won't be playing on the field for long. Because now he is 38 years and 11 months old. Or in the next month CR7 will be 39 years old. Which means that when the SPL restarts, CR7 will be 39 years old. Although CR7 has indeed been able to maintain his stamina and fitness all this time. But still, age won't lie in the end. And in the next season, maybe CR7 will experience a decline. But it's great to hear that this year he has succeeded in being an old player but still able to beat the young players in scoring goals. I also think that CR7 is likely to retire in the SPL. And that's a good thing but I really want to see him succeed in winning his last trophy with his current club.

But however, until now there has been no young player who has matched CR7 in his youth. In fact, I started to like football with my husband because of how hot the football news was when CR7 was still at Man Utd.

I've watch closely how Cristiano Ronaldo have played and developed his team to become one of the strongest in SPL. They're competitive in all tournaments feature and giving up is not in their mapping. Any club that Ronaldo plays for is very lucky because only his presence constitutes positive impacts and generates more chances of goal scoring. I believe Cristiano Ronaldo will be playing football until he hits 40, perhapes he still have one more world cup to feature for because he really need to win this inother to settle the GOAT debate difference.

[shinratensei_]

One thing i was surprised to see when Ronaldo becomes this year top goalscorer, is he dont win this "award" since 2015. and that make me think so many things, and also where i was at that time, and how times flies, it was sad in someways. I am the only one with that feeling?

Ronaldo can score a lot of goals in Soudi Pro League. We see good performances from Ronaldo in every match. Also his fitness is still very good. He has managed to score 20 goals and 9 assists in 18 matches this season. I thought Benzema would probably be able to score as many goals as Ronaldo. But we don't see a good enough performance from Benzema in the Saudi league. He scored only 9 goals and 5 assists in 15 matches. He is far behind Ronaldo. On the other hand, Neymar's condition is now very deplorable due to injuries. He has played only 3 matches this season. Couldn't score any goals.

Al hilal is feeling so mad with neymar and neymar will never play for al hilal again. Reports indicate that al Hilal has chosen to terminate his contract and remove him from their squad. Al hilal does not even need him right now caused by the club has mitrovic and savic as the key centre of al hilal's gameplay.
Ronaldo is still having very good fitness even though he was not young anymore, but he can still score a lot in the saudi pro league. benzema's performance is so horrible and he cannot compete with ronaldo.

The only worthy competitor for ronaldo is mitrovic which was playing for al hilal. You can see the gap between ronaldo and mitrovic is quite small. Im thinking that if benzema may be feeling even worse by playing in the non conducive team.
I hope mitrovic will able to surpass ronaldo soon. It will be making ronaldo to have real challenge against mitrovic like once he played in real madrid that had messi as the main competitor in scoring as many goals as possible to created the record.

Mitrovic is still on fire and he has another chance to perform even better than ronaldo soon.

[Volgastallion]

I always cant believe how Mitrovic never reach a most higher level team in hiscareer he always make a ton of goals in Fulham and now here, but the teams seems like is not interested in him, maybe because he can be a little bit undiscipline?, but come on we already see a lot of players worst than him in football and outside the pitch in better teams.

[Doell]

The Asian Cup championship means that the Saudi Pro League competition will take a break for one month and will resume in February, and Ittihad FC's first match in the Saudi Pro League will be against Al Ta'ee a team that is relatively weak and which also experienced three consecutive defeats like Ittihad before the league it's a holiday.
Ittihad FC must be able to win this match which can be considered easy, because even though Ittihad FC is not in a very good condition, their players are much better than their opponents and they also need to end this streak of bad results to improve their ranking even though it is impossible to defend the title, and Karim Benzema, who is facing difficult times at this club, has the opportunity to score a goal to silence the criticism of him a little because of some of the bad results obtained by the defending champion.

You are right, the Saudi Pro League competition will take a break for one month. This momentum should be used as best as possible, to improve the performance of all teams which is playing in this competition. Especially, Ittihad fc which are their performance has really declined so far this season.
Al Ta'ee is not a strong team in the Saudi Pro League, currently they are having difficulty getting good results and getting out of the relegation zone. Ittihad have big the opportunity to get three points easily, on paper Ittihad is also better. It would be very bad if Ittihad could not win, and of course criticism of Benzema maybe will be increase.

[len01]

I always cant believe how Mitrovic never reach a most higher level team in hiscareer he always make a ton of goals in Fulham and now here, but the teams seems like is not interested in him, maybe because he can be a little bit undiscipline?, but come on we already see a lot of players worst than him in football and outside the pitch in better teams.

may I know why you say Mitrovic never reached the team at the highest level?
what I know is that currently Mitrovic is in the right team like Al Hilal who can always appreciate quality players like Mitrovic and we can see that Mitrovic is even able to score in large numbers competing with Ronaldo as the top scorer in the SPL and maybe in the past at Fulham like no appreciated, but believe me, Mitrovic is highly appreciated and always praised at Al Hilal, even being able to reach the highest peak in the SPL standings.

[beerlover]

It's a shame that this legendary player won't be playing on the field for long. Because now he is 38 years and 11 months old. Or in the next month CR7 will be 39 years old. Which means that when the SPL restarts, CR7 will be 39 years old. Although CR7 has indeed been able to maintain his stamina and fitness all this time. But still, age won't lie in the end. And in the next season, maybe CR7 will experience a decline. But it's great to hear that this year he has succeeded in being an old player but still able to beat the young players in scoring goals. I also think that CR7 is likely to retire in the SPL. And that's a good thing but I really want to see him succeed in winning his last trophy with his current club.

But however, until now there has been no young player who has matched CR7 in his youth. In fact, I started to like football with my husband because of how hot the football news was when CR7 was still at Man Utd.

I feel like he could definitely play for another season after this one, I do not know if he has more in him, but he has been quite great for the team, yes SPL is not a great league and all, but that just makes it easier for him to keep playing there.

He may not get paid a lot even there if he decides to play some more at 40+ years old, but he has 1.5 more seasons to go without a doubt, after that every year could be his last year. Dude took care of his body a lot better than most players, so he can still run and play very well and he is still scoring, so we are not seeing anything bad going on with him, we could consider him as keep going for a while longer and that is why I believe that he will probably keep playing after 40 too.

[QueenVera]

Yes, I agree with you because Cristiano Ronaldo's performance is very good and I think many young players are inferior to him in terms of skill and technique, and it is proven that almost every time Al-Nassr plays, of course Cristiano Ronaldo always contributes goals and this is a sign that Cristiano Ronaldo very good. and indeed there is no young player currently who can compete with Cristiano Ronaldo.

I'm sure that even though Cristiano Ronaldo plays in the Saudi league, I don't think it will reduce Cristiano Ronaldo's performance. Yes, of course we won't know about Cristiano Ronaldo's performance in the future, but I always see that Cristiano Ronaldo always takes good care of his health and he seems to enjoy everything and when he competed against the Portuguese national team he was also very good and not inferior to the other players and regarding I also don't know whether he will play part in the World Cup or not, but I am sure that Cristiano Ronaldo has the potential to play part in the World Cup and I am sure that many people are hoping to see Cristiano Ronaldo appear in the World Cup.

Cristiano has been on World’s football stage for a decade and is still flourishing. We don’t have many players who can be able to achieve such a great feat he’s achieved and still achieving. Credits must be given to him on how he works and keep his body shape to achieve such feat. The SPL league we thought will reduce his work rate and all but instead it’s seeming that’s making him work very hard and wanting to conquer that league.

 The way he maintains shape is now making us believe CR7 will be agile for the World Cup in 2026 and that’s one thing the fans would love to see. But 2026 is still 2 years away and anything can happen let’s watch out the turnout of the surprises that CR7 could give us, he's a wonderful player and I believe he'll have lots to offer in his last World Cup.

[hahay]

I always cant believe how Mitrovic never reach a most higher level team in hiscareer he always make a ton of goals in Fulham and now here, but the teams seems like is not interested in him, maybe because he can be a little bit undiscipline?, but come on we already see a lot of players worst than him in football and outside the pitch in better teams.

may I know why you say Mitrovic never reached the team at the highest level?
what I know is that currently Mitrovic is in the right team like Al Hilal who can always appreciate quality players like Mitrovic and we can see that Mitrovic is even able to score in large numbers competing with Ronaldo as the top scorer in the SPL and maybe in the past at Fulham like no appreciated, but believe me, Mitrovic is highly appreciated and always praised at Al Hilal, even being able to reach the highest peak in the SPL standings.

There are only 3 goals difference between Ronaldo and Mitrovic in the current Saudi Pro League top scorer list and thus, of course, Mitrovic has a good achievement too and is not as bad as assumed above. By being in the second position in the current Saudi League top scorer list then yes, of course Mitrovic is a player who has a big contribution to Al Hilal and thus Mitrovic has a high level which is certainly above average too.

Moreover, Mitrovic is still 29 years old and it is possible for Mitrovic to become Al Hilal's goal machine as long as his contract is still active. So yes indeed, it is not right to think that Mitrovic is not appreciated and or not at the highest level, because here at Al Hilal Mitrovic is the first choice who has a big influence on Al Hilal's success this season.

[Slow death]

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Cristiano Ronaldo is aged 38 and he's still doing quite brilliance in Saudi Pro League. He's such a confident and influential player the pitch, not just the pitch but it also extends to the entire team performance and big positive impact on the team he plays for. Ronaldo is not relenting in his performance and he's capable of doing the impossible, which I must fall on his goals tally this season alone. Ronaldo bagged 54 goals in calender of 2023 and he surpassed all of his opponents with clear stats, that alone proved him to be the best when compared to his mates and the new generation of football.

That is true, but he is currently not playing at the top leagues, so his performance might drop in the future, also considering his age, because he is definitely now in his biological prime any more.

He will continue to score of course, but I don't think we will see him at the next world cup, he is basically retiring in the SPL in my mind.

well, knowing ronaldo and knowing that the next world cup will be in 2026, i'm starting to think that ronaldo's plan is to retire after he plays in the next world cup, that's because unlike messi who has already won everything in football, Ronaldo still hasn't achieved everything in football, he hasn't yet won a World Cup with the Portuguese national team, so he probably won't retire before he plays in the next World Cup, it even makes sense if he's chasing an achievement like world Cup. Unfortunately, in the last World Cup, the Portuguese national team, despite having a great squad with good quality players, was unable to even reach the final

and I highly doubt that the next world cup will be any different for the portugal national team, in my opinion, even with ronaldo, the portugal national team in the next world cup will not perform well and the factors that lead me to think about this are that the good Portuguese players currently playing for big teams will hardly remain in the same teams until the next World Cup and Ronaldo in the next World Cup will be very old, currently Ronaldo does not constantly suffer from long-term injuries, but when he is 40 years old With age this scenario could change and he could start to get very slow on the field. Whatever the case, time will tell us everything

[shogun47]

You can compare them and Ronaldo is all about full force, not about precision and smartness. You can see it when he takes a free kick, he never takes them as a smart shooter. He takes them with full force hoping he hits it right. Messi in contract is a smart player with unmatched precision and unprecedented short way acceleration and deceleration. If someone likes to watch beautiful soccer, Messi is the one to stick with. If someone prefers to watch soccer that is about pure force, Ronaldo might be the better choice.

Although Ronaldo seems to use power over the pure skills, but it also requires the intelligence (smartness). So, it is wrong if you claim Ronaldo isn't a smart player while Messi is smart player. If Ronaldo only focus on the power, he won't get the chance to score many goals. We mustn't deny that Ronaldo already scored many goals that look as smart goals. For me, both Ronaldo and Messi are smart players. When they kick the ball, it will be unpredictable and it probably will be beautiful goals.

This is a smart goal scored by Messi. You won't find goals of a similar kind scored by Ronaldo. Of course Ronaldo can't be completely dumb, but Messi is playing this game on a different level with his head. The passing, the ways he runs, when he slows down or accelerates. His free kicks are insanely precise, but not as hard as Ronaldo's. It is a question of taste. Those who prefer force over smartness will always prefer Ronaldo over Messi. Which is ok, why not. Everyone has their own favorite skillset and since Ronaldo and Messi are fundamentally different, I think it is normal that both have also their own type of fans.

[borovichok]

There are only 3 goals difference between Ronaldo and Mitrovic in the current Saudi Pro League top scorer list and thus, of course, Mitrovic has a good achievement too and is not as bad as assumed above. By being in the second position in the current Saudi League top scorer list then yes, of course Mitrovic is a player who has a big contribution to Al Hilal and thus Mitrovic has a high level which is certainly above average too.

Moreover, Mitrovic is still 29 years old and it is possible for Mitrovic to become Al Hilal's goal machine as long as his contract is still active. So yes indeed, it is not right to think that Mitrovic is not appreciated and or not at the highest level, because here at Al Hilal Mitrovic is the first choice who has a big influence on Al Hilal's success this season.

Ronaldo still breaking records at the age of 38, he has no boundaries and he's weigh beyond the level of this current generation in football. Ronaldo is an icon which many footballers look up to him and he's not dissappointing anyone with his incredible performance, always present to forward his abilities with no challenge and if he had one, he overcome it without stress. I admire his pattern and he's ever going to be my favorite player in the European world of football. Cristiano Ronaldo is the top goal scorer in the calender year of 2023 with 54 goals netted so far, he's unstoppable.

[rahmad2nd]

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Al hilal is feeling so mad with neymar and neymar will never play for al hilal again. Reports indicate that al Hilal has chosen to terminate his contract and remove him from their squad. Al hilal does not even need him right now caused by the club has mitrovic and savic as the key centre of al hilal's gameplay.
Ronaldo is still having very good fitness even though he was not young anymore, but he can still score a lot in the saudi pro league. benzema's performance is so horrible and he cannot compete with ronaldo.

The only worthy competitor for ronaldo is mitrovic which was playing for al hilal. You can see the gap between ronaldo and mitrovic is quite small. Im thinking that if benzema may be feeling even worse by playing in the non conducive team.
I hope mitrovic will able to surpass ronaldo soon. It will be making ronaldo to have real challenge against mitrovic like once he played in real madrid that had messi as the main competitor in scoring as many goals as possible to created the record.

Mitrovic is still on fire and he has another chance to perform even better than ronaldo soon.

I tried to find the latest information regarding Neymar, especially as you said that Al Hilal was very angry with Neymar who never played anything else. unfortunately, I didn't get the information I needed. as far as I know, no player wants to suffer a prolonged injury like what happened to Neymar. after all, Neymar was injured while defending his Brazilian national team. so, what happened to Neymat was out of scenario. referring to past news sources, according to Saudi Arabian media, Arriyadiyah, Al Hilal will have Neymar back in its squad next season.  However, Al Hilal will remove the Brazilian star from the list to bring in other non-Saudi players. regulations state, that each league team can only have eight foreign players in the squad. it is very clear that Neymar will return next summer. even if there is other news, unfortunately I couldn't find it even though I tried looking for it in several searches. referring to transfermarkt, Neymar is still an Al Hilal player.

In fact, even without Neymar, Al Hilal is still very difficult for Ronaldo and his team Al Nassr to compete with. Al Hilal couldn't use Neymar's services much this season, but they still managed to maintain a safe distance from their rivals, Al Nassr. even though Neymar was absent for a long time, Al Hilal performed well because other stars were able to shine. Mitrovic was the player who shone the most on the front line with his 17 goals, and was only 3 goals behind Ronaldo. apart from that, Yassine Bono, Malcon, Milinkovic Savic, Ruben Neves and one of the local Al Dawsari players, could also be the backbone of the current Al Hilal team squad.

As for Benzema, I don't know exactly what the obstacles are in the Al Ittihad squad. however, it seems that Al Ittihad needs several newcomers, especially those who are able to support Benzema on the front lines. likewise with Al-Ahli, even though they are in 3rd place in the standings, the fact is that Firmino has not been able to show his capacity so far. currently, the Saudi Pro League competition is in a pause phase. and this is good for the teams competing in this League, to carry out evaluations.

[Leviathan.007]

Al Ittihad bot many famous and experienced players like Karim Benzema during the summer and they couldn't get good results from the players they got for their team even after getting their coach fired from this team Al Ittihad is seeking for another way to improve the team.
While they have loaded pockets, they are about to buy another player and this time they want to hire Son Heung-min, the superstar of Tottenham however I don't think if he will even accept this offer because even during the summer they wanted to give a 50 million euros salary to this palyer and he rejected the offer.

[Arenga pinnata]

Al Ittihad bot many famous and experienced players like Karim Benzema during the summer and they couldn't get good results from the players they got for their team even after getting their coach fired from this team Al Ittihad is seeking for another way to improve the team.
While they have loaded pockets, they are about to buy another player and this time they want to hire Son Heung-min, the superstar of Tottenham however I don't think if he will even accept this offer because even during the summer they wanted to give a 50 million euros salary to this palyer and he rejected the offer.

Son is currently very comfortable at Spurs as captain of the current Tottenham team. So I think Son will probably refuse again if another offer comes to him. Because for players who are not old enough, they definitely still want to stay longer at a European club and write their names in the history of European football. And even though Son is an Asian player, namely from South Korea. But he has succeeded in becoming the most important player at Spurs after Kane's departure. So it would be very surprising if Son suddenly went to an Arab club.

In fact, it is reported that Al-ittihad is also targeting Liverpool's current striker, M. Salah. But I think this one is the same. Because M. Salah is currently very comfortable at Liverpool. In fact, he is now the top scorer in the Premier League this season with Haaland. So M. Salah will probably refuse any offer of any size if an offer comes to him this season. Unless it's next season. Maybe something will be different.

[Hirose UK]

Al Ittihad bot many famous and experienced players like Karim Benzema during the summer and they couldn't get good results from the players they got for their team even after getting their coach fired from this team Al Ittihad is seeking for another way to improve the team.
While they have loaded pockets, they are about to buy another player and this time they want to hire Son Heung-min, the superstar of Tottenham however I don't think if he will even accept this offer because even during the summer they wanted to give a 50 million euros salary to this palyer and he rejected the offer.

Yes, Al Ittihad has quite lot of great players and of course they have spent very large budget to bring in some of these players, but in fact Al Ittihad failed to become one of the top team that could potentially compete for the SPL title this season.
Benzema is one of Al Ittihad mainstays and he has provided quite lot of goals for this team, it just that Al Ittihad way of playing is not that aggressive, they can't play with deadly attacking method and strong defense.
It should be from the Al Ittihad squad can show good quality.
If conditions like this continue to occur, Al Ittihad will never be able to achieve any achievements in the future.
Now they have stated that they are interested in Son Heung-min and have made fairly large offer to Tottenham, but they have forgotten that Tottenham really need Son Heung-min so it is impossible and unlikely for Al Ittihad to get him.

[dzungmobile]

Al Ittihad bot many famous and experienced players like Karim Benzema during the summer and they couldn't get good results from the players they got for their team even after getting their coach fired from this team Al Ittihad is seeking for another way to improve the team.
While they have loaded pockets, they are about to buy another player and this time they want to hire Son Heung-min, the superstar of Tottenham however I don't think if he will even accept this offer because even during the summer they wanted to give a 50 million euros salary to this palyer and he rejected the offer.

He refused him in the summer but will he refuse next offers from Saudi Arabia including offers from Al Ittihad. Who knows about that because new offers potentially will be better than previous offer.

Son is enjoying his first season as a captain of Tottenham Hotspur and with it he is making history for South Korean football and even at bigger scale Asian football.

In history, no Asian football player worn a captain band of a Premier League club. Son is a first player from Asia is given this important role in Premier League.

Maybe one or two more seasons, Son will leave Premier League if clubs from Saudi Arabia continue to give him good offers.

[Belarge]

Al Ittihad bot many famous and experienced players like Karim Benzema during the summer and they couldn't get good results from the players they got for their team even after getting their coach fired from this team Al Ittihad is seeking for another way to improve the team.
While they have loaded pockets, they are about to buy another player and this time they want to hire Son Heung-min, the superstar of Tottenham however I don't think if he will even accept this offer because even during the summer they wanted to give a 50 million euros salary to this palyer and he rejected the offer.

Signing European players is expensive but these SPL clubs doesn't consider that, they go for good performance of the club, atleast they're witnessing the current situation of the club. SPL clubs are stronger than they merely seems, you know why? Watch their performance on the pitch, they're beyond the level of assumptions. Al Ittihad players are top and strong, they're able to filled in their space for the big tasks ahead. Rumors fast circulating about APL club interested in recruiting Tottenham Hotspur top player, Son over and I don't think this have a possible probability of happening.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Al Ittihad bot many famous and experienced players like Karim Benzema during the summer and they couldn't get good results from the players they got for their team even after getting their coach fired from this team Al Ittihad is seeking for another way to improve the team.
While they have loaded pockets, they are about to buy another player and this time they want to hire Son Heung-min, the superstar of Tottenham however I don't think if he will even accept this offer because even during the summer they wanted to give a 50 million euros salary to this palyer and he rejected the offer.

Al ittihad has so many internal problem and this can't be solved only through signing the new coach. In fact, ittihad's performance has been declining a lot and it's not the same like when it was starting the season. So, i think that on chance for ittihad to go back again into the right track to compete for the saudi pro league title. The level of al ittihad compared to the nassr and hilal are far away. Im doubting benzema this time caused by he has the strongest power in the club since the owner was trusting him.

The ittihad coach sacked caused by benzema has been requesting owner to do that. This is the main problem that needs to be sorted out or im feeling that if benzema was the main problem since he has been trusted by the club owner and he tried to control everything in the club.
You will never see ittihad to go back again. Ittihad will not get son caused by he will not be willing to join in the ittihad caused by son chooses to continue his career in the totenham till end of his contract.

Im sure that if son will not be only targeting some money but he may be still targeting EPL trophy. I do remember how many times totenham was failed to win the EPL trophy but son's very loyal to the totenham coz this club made his name big.