Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

[slapper]

Ronaldo enthusiasm and energy is on top right now after soo much respect and love from Arab league.  He seems to be extremely happy and satisfied with his participation in Al Nassr.  

CR7 seems to have regained his soul on the pitch, but he is not as sharp as a few years ago and was visible until the 70++ minute, he still has not scored a goal against Ettifaq

looks like al nassr will only win narrowly 1-0 against ettifaq today

 

the game ended in a draw, I realized something very interesting which was the fact that ronaldo was captain of the team and he didn't even play many games, this is his first game, so why did he already become captain? I don't know what kind of criteria these teams in that league use when choosing the team's captain, but I think they had to choose the oldest player on the team to be captain, that player next to cristiano ronaldo, the guy is a good free-kick taker and he scores goals, he has helped this team a lot from what I can see, of course I only watched videos of this team's games so I could be wrong

Al-Nassr won 1-0. You could have thought that because Ronaldo's captaincy was unexpected. Remember that group leaders are chosen differently. Some teams pick the oldest player, while others pick the most experienced or most valuable player. Ronaldo's leadership and playing skills make him a likely Al-captain. Nassr's Ronaldo's captaincy doesn't require him to play every game. He'll lead the team in and out of competition.

[MAAManda]

The first debut and first win for Cristiano Ronaldo when he became the starting line-up for Al-Nassr vs Al-Ettifaq last night. In this match, Cristiano Ronaldo also carried out an important task as captain of Al-Nassr, even though he didn't score in his debut match, this result was good enough for the team to win. Still waiting for Cristiano Ronaldo's progress in the next match, I hope he can score goals in the next match later.

Even though Al-Nassr got 3 points against Ettifaq, it was a bad result (IMO). With several world class players + Cristiano Ronaldo they can only score 1 goal. Apart from that, Al-Nassr also really dominated that game with 68% ball possession. Al-Nassr should have won with a score of at least 3 goals. Well, hopefully in the next match we can see a better performance from Al-Nassr and also at least a goal scored by Cristiano Ronaldo.

[Gosgosking]

Ronaldo's real effect could appear in stronger matches, like the match against Al Hilal, who have been dominating the SPL for years, so by then, we will see if he's able to serve the team. Apart from this, I don't think he can compete for the highest scorer in the next season, because his physical status doesn't help him to play every match, and the other teams have high quality strikers. Actually, one of them is Talisca, who scored the only goal of the recent match.

Age really can't lie, that CR7's sharpness is reduced, just look at his kicks several times wide of the goal and that is beyond the expectations of many fans, it looks like CR7 will end his career at AL Nassr

but the big effect that CR7 made on Al Nassr was also extraordinary, the competition with Al Hilal was getting tougher

I don't really see what people are talking about Ronaldo performance not been sharp . We all saw Ronaldo performance in the game he played against PSG.  The games was great and I don't see any wrong with is performance. Ronaldo is still good and still scores goals.

[Doell]

The first debut and first win for Cristiano Ronaldo when he became the starting line-up for Al-Nassr vs Al-Ettifaq last night. In this match, Cristiano Ronaldo also carried out an important task as captain of Al-Nassr, even though he didn't score in his debut match, this result was good enough for the team to win. Still waiting for Cristiano Ronaldo's progress in the next match, I hope he can score goals in the next match later.

Even though Al-Nassr got 3 points against Ettifaq, it was a bad result (IMO). With several world class players + Cristiano Ronaldo they can only score 1 goal. Apart from that, Al-Nassr also really dominated that game with 68% ball possession. Al-Nassr should have won with a score of at least 3 goals. Well, hopefully in the next match we can see a better performance from Al-Nassr and also at least a goal scored by Cristiano Ronaldo.

They just need to adaptation each other to be which solid team, as far as I know the first debut is also not always good wherever it is, but in that match Ronaldo was quite good. He didn't make many bad mistake, even led this match with serious as captain.  The next match it seems like will be difficult for Al-Nassr because against Al-fateh, they have the great striker Firas al-Buraikan, this young man is quite good on the field and maybe also have potential to be a great player.

[puloweh555]

Ronaldo enthusiasm and energy is on top right now after soo much respect and love from Arab league.  He seems to be extremely happy and satisfied with his participation in Al Nassr.  

CR7 seems to have regained his soul on the pitch, but he is not as sharp as a few years ago and was visible until the 70++ minute, he still has not scored a goal against Ettifaq

looks like al nassr will only win narrowly 1-0 against ettifaq today

 

the game ended in a draw, I realized something very interesting which was the fact that ronaldo was captain of the team and he didn't even play many games, this is his first game, so why did he already become captain? I don't know what kind of criteria these teams in that league use when choosing the team's captain, but I think they had to choose the oldest player on the team to be captain, that player next to cristiano ronaldo, the guy is a good free-kick taker and he scores goals, he has helped this team a lot from what I can see, of course I only watched videos of this team's games so I could be wrong

I think even though he is a new player at Al Nassr, but with all the qualities and experience of having played in Europe's top leagues, CR7, in my opinion, is very worthy, even more than worthy of being the captain of Al Nassr.

Becoming captain of this match because he hopes that with Ronaldo's presence Al Nassr will be more motivated, more consistent, to a high level and win the Asian Champions League. We also know that the development of Al Nassr's game is now in the spotlight of the world public. now More than 30 TV channels, all CR7 fans around the world can watch Al Nassr matches.

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[el kaka22]

They are good enough as a team even without Ronaldo, they were leading the league before he came along, I am not expecting him to be that much of a difference if you ask me in the result department. I am not saying he will be bad, of course Ronaldo will be a great player for them, and I think he is going to learn to play with his teammates and how they play and they are going to win the title with the help of Ronaldo for sure, I see them as inevitable champions.

What I am just trying to explain is that, if they didn't get Ronaldo, they would still win it no matter what, they would still be champions even without him, which is why I think they didn't get Ronaldo for success, they got him for PR.

[Rabi3]

Ronaldo enthusiasm and energy is on top right now after soo much respect and love from Arab league.  He seems to be extremely happy and satisfied with his participation in Al Nassr. 

CR7 seems to have regained his soul on the pitch, but he is not as sharp as a few years ago and was visible until the 70++ minute, he still has not scored a goal against Ettifaq

looks like al nassr will only win narrowly 1-0 against ettifaq today

 

the game ended in a draw, I realized something very interesting which was the fact that ronaldo was captain of the team and he didn't even play many games, this is his first game, so why did he already become captain? I don't know what kind of criteria these teams in that league use when choosing the team's captain, but I think they had to choose the oldest player on the team to be captain, that player next to cristiano ronaldo,

I don't think a player has to play a certain time to be a captain of a team, he has been the captain for Portugal before and he has the best experience in "better" leagues, so I don't see a problem with him being captain despite being new.

[LDL]

 

bytheway what his gf does - she should cook some food for him 
If he wont get good food he won't be happy
the management should surely make some arrangement

Couldn't know the update news if Ronaldo got a cooker for his personal work, Ronaldo might be able to solve his personal problems very soon.
An interesting fact is that we might think that Ronaldo's girlfriend Georgina will cook fun items for Ronaldo but in reality they never go into the kitchen room. Maybe it can cook something special but for everyday cooking a cooker is definitely needed.
As far as we know Ronaldo is very conservative about his health. A few days ago, replacing the bottle of Coca-Cola with a bottle of water carries an important signal of its health rules. Ronaldo doesn't like soft drinks he always drinks pure water. He always eats healthy food.  So the Saudi authorities are trying to solve its problems very quickly.

[X-ray]

I don't think a player has to play a certain time to be a captain of a team, he has been the captain for Portugal before and he has the best experience in "better" leagues, so I don't see a problem with him being captain despite being new.

A captain being chosen to lead other players in the club. Ronaldo has a lot of experience in football. He has been chosen as a captain due to his experience. Ronaldo has ever become captain of real madrid. The thing that must become the main concern by al nassr is after ronaldo was coming to the al nassr and so many passes were going to him. Rudi Garcia as al nassr's coach even emphasizes its player play normally like there's no special position for ronaldo. I saw that from his debut if he was always getting passes from his teammates.
Al nassr needs to play normally like before ronaldo was coming to the club. Ronaldo was seeking a private chef for him.

[Sithara007]

LOL.. I don't understand many of the previous posts. Ronaldo is human. He is not machine to score goals in each and every match. The match on Sunday was quite tough, with the Ettifaq defenders managing to block several attacks from the Al Nassr players. The latter won the match anyway. It was the first match within SPL for Ronaldo and therefore I am not much concerned about the fact that he didn't scored. Al Nassr doesn't need any miracles from Ronaldo other than attracting fan support and global viewership. They are already on the top of the points table.

[Fullcoinese]

LOL.. I don't understand many of the previous posts. Ronaldo is human. He is not machine to score goals in each and every match. The match on Sunday was quite tough, with the Ettifaq defenders managing to block several attacks from the Al Nassr players. The latter won the match anyway. It was the first match within SPL for Ronaldo and therefore I am not much concerned about the fact that he didn't scored. Al Nassr doesn't need any miracles from Ronaldo other than attracting fan support and global viewership. They are already on the top of the points table.

fans' expectations of Ronaldo's arrival at Al Nassr are quite large. their opponents have a solid defense and know full well that Ronaldo is dangerous. they put up an excellent defense and left Ronaldo with no chance to score.
score or not, he has played the full game and certainly contributed like any other player. we may not be able to exaggerate Ronaldo's performance. but fans and media always make it look special.

[Juggy777]

LOL.. I don't understand many of the previous posts. Ronaldo is human. He is not machine to score goals in each and every match. The match on Sunday was quite tough, with the Ettifaq defenders managing to block several attacks from the Al Nassr players. The latter won the match anyway. It was the first match within SPL for Ronaldo and therefore I am not much concerned about the fact that he didn't scored. Al Nassr doesn't need any miracles from Ronaldo other than attracting fan support and global viewership. They are already on the top of the points table.

fans' expectations of Ronaldo's arrival at Al Nassr are quite large. their opponents have a solid defense and know full well that Ronaldo is dangerous. they put up an excellent defense and left Ronaldo with no chance to score.
score or not, he has played the full game and certainly contributed like any other player. we may not be able to exaggerate Ronaldo's performance. but fans and media always make it look special.

@Sithara007 while a lot of fuss is being made about Ronaldo not scoring, but how about the fact that he had made nice assists but unfortunately those didn’t get converted in goal. Furthermore Ronaldo these day’s is just not about goals, he can assist too and inspire his teammates to win because of his champions mentality hence for me he had a decent game and thus I see no need to be behind him for not scoring goals in his debut match for his new club.

[MAAManda]

They just need to adaptation each other to be which solid team, as far as I know the first debut is also not always good wherever it is, but in that match Ronaldo was quite good. He didn't make many bad mistake, even led this match with serious as captain.  The next match it seems like will be difficult for Al-Nassr because against Al-fateh, they have the great striker Firas al-Buraikan, this young man is quite good on the field and maybe also have potential to be a great player.

Adaptation is necessary for a player making his debut, but what concerns me is " why did they only win with a score of 1 - 0?". That shouldn't have happened, or, is it true that Cristiano Ronaldo had a bad impact on Al-Nassr?. Well, we'll see if what you said about adaptation is true or not in the next matches of Al-Nassr.

BTW, do you think having Cristiano Ronaldo at Al-Nassr will make Al-Nassr the SPL champion this season? Because the last time Al-Nassr won the SPL was during the 2018/2019 season.

[Sithara007]

fans' expectations of Ronaldo's arrival at Al Nassr are quite large. their opponents have a solid defense and know full well that Ronaldo is dangerous. they put up an excellent defense and left Ronaldo with no chance to score.
score or not, he has played the full game and certainly contributed like any other player. we may not be able to exaggerate Ronaldo's performance. but fans and media always make it look special.

In that case they will be doing the same mistake that happened with the Portugal national team during Qatar 2022. Ronaldo had a couple of bad matches and the manager (Fernando Santos) responded by dropping him from the team. It worked well with one of their matches (against Switzerland), but backfired when they played against Morocco. They need to understand that when Ronaldo is in the field, all the attention from opposing defenders will be on him. And this allows the other forwards in his team to play more freely. His contribution to the matches can't be measured solely using the number of goals that are scored.

[Strongkored]

LOL.. I don't understand many of the previous posts. Ronaldo is human. He is not machine to score goals in each and every match. The match on Sunday was quite tough, with the Ettifaq defenders managing to block several attacks from the Al Nassr players. The latter won the match anyway. It was the first match within SPL for Ronaldo and therefore I am not much concerned about the fact that he didn't scored. Al Nassr doesn't need any miracles from Ronaldo other than attracting fan support and global viewership. They are already on the top of the points table.

You are right An Nassr brought Ronaldo to the club at a huge cost not to create miracles and help the club to be able to win matches in the league but rather to bring in money through broadcasts because Ronaldo's fan base is very large and it can bring other things to Arab football, just because he is famous for his sharpness, goals from him will always be eagerly awaited.

[Synchronice]

They are good enough as a team even without Ronaldo, they were leading the league before he came along, I am not expecting him to be that much of a difference if you ask me in the result department. I am not saying he will be bad, of course Ronaldo will be a great player for them, and I think he is going to learn to play with his teammates and how they play and they are going to win the title with the help of Ronaldo for sure, I see them as inevitable champions.

What I am just trying to explain is that, if they didn't get Ronaldo, they would still win it no matter what, they would still be champions even without him, which is why I think they didn't get Ronaldo for success, they got him for PR.

Definitely this was done for the marketing purposes. They paid 214 million dollars, what will be the ROI for them from merch and other things. I mean, if it was famous European football club in famous league, then definitely clubs would enormously profit, they would attract a lot of sponsors, money from merch, etc but Saudi Professional League is not a popular league, nor any team from this league performs well and is famous. So, I don't think even the CR's transfer would attract finances for them, especially when CR isn't performing well recently and he is 37 years old, going to retire soon.
Probably money isn't even a thing for them from this deal but Idk if this transfer has any real long-term value. This transfer was even bad for CR, first of all for his words with Piers Morgan and also especially for the reason that he won't be able to play against teams with competitive and experienced players.

[LDL]

LOL.. I don't understand many of the previous posts. Ronaldo is human. He is not machine to score goals in each and every match. The match on Sunday was quite tough, with the Ettifaq defenders managing to block several attacks from the Al Nassr players. The latter won the match anyway. It was the first match within SPL for Ronaldo and therefore I am not much concerned about the fact that he didn't scored. Al Nassr doesn't need any miracles from Ronaldo other than attracting fan support and global viewership. They are already on the top of the points table.

You are right An Nassr brought Ronaldo to the club at a huge cost not to create miracles and help the club to be able to win matches in the league but rather to bring in money through broadcasts because Ronaldo's fan base is very large and it can bring other things to Arab football, just because he is famous for his sharpness, goals from him will always be eagerly awaited.

@Sithara007
His words are 100% true, CR7 is a flesh and blood human, he is not an alien or a robot. Ronaldo's lack of goals in his debut for Al Nasser, a club in Saudi Arabia, naturally led to a mixed reaction among Ronaldo fans. But it must be understood that no matter how popular a player is, he may or may not score goals in every match. There is nothing to criticize about this. Ronaldo's outstanding talent against PSG in the last friendly match really deserves praise.

@Strongkored
Your words have incredible logic. Because one of the significant reasons behind the purchase of Ronaldo by the owner of Al Nasser is to introduce the Saudi clubs to the world football lovers. Before buying Ronaldo, people knew very little about Saudi clubs. Especially if you compare one thing you will understand clearly. Before buying Ronaldo, Saudi Arabia's Al Nasser club had just 860K Instagram followers before Ronaldo was bought, but if you go to Al Nasser's official Instagram page today, you'll find it has 12.5M followers.  Then judge for yourself how the popularity of the clubs in Saudi Arabia is increasing only for Cristiano Ronaldo.



See Al NASSR Instagram official page: https://instagram.com/alnassr_fc?igshid=OGQ2MjdiOTE=

[Zlantann]

LOL.. I don't understand many of the previous posts. Ronaldo is human. He is not machine to score goals in each and every match. The match on Sunday was quite tough, with the Ettifaq defenders managing to block several attacks from the Al Nassr players. The latter won the match anyway. It was the first match within SPL for Ronaldo and therefore I am not much concerned about the fact that he didn't scored. Al Nassr doesn't need any miracles from Ronaldo other than attracting fan support and global viewership. They are already on the top of the points table.

You are right An Nassr brought Ronaldo to the club at a huge cost not to create miracles and help the club to be able to win matches in the league but rather to bring in money through broadcasts because Ronaldo's fan base is very large and it can bring other things to Arab football, just because he is famous for his sharpness, goals from him will always be eagerly awaited.

I think the Saudi Arabian league has started reaping from their investment in Cristiano Ronaldo. At least we have a Saudi League thread in bitcointalk. People are now attracted to the Saudi League and they are having the right publicity. But I think all this glamour and hype about Ronaldo would gradually reduce because his performance is going down and the league doesn't have the quality. If the Saudi league organizers fail to put certain modalities that would make the league more desirable, they would lose this attention.

The government of Saudi Arabia needs to invest more in the league. Other clubs must be given the financial backing that would enable them to buy quality players from other parts of the world. If more good players are present in other clubs, the league might become more entertaining. The government should also make policies that would make the country's cultural and religious rules more flexible for footballers and football fans.

[Sithara007]

I think the Saudi Arabian league has started reaping from their investment in Cristiano Ronaldo. At least we have a Saudi League thread in bitcointalk. People are now attracted to the Saudi League and they are having the right publicity. But I think all this glamour and hype about Ronaldo would gradually reduce because his performance is going down and the league doesn't have the quality. If the Saudi league organizers fail to put certain modalities that would make the league more desirable, they would lose this attention.

The government of Saudi Arabia needs to invest more in the league. Other clubs must be given the financial backing that would enable them to buy quality players from other parts of the world. If more good players are present in other clubs, the league might become more entertaining. The government should also make policies that would make the country's cultural and religious rules more flexible for footballers and football fans.

When the Saudi Arabians decided to shell out close to $500 million for Ronaldo (half of that for representing Al Nassr and the other half for being a part of the Saudi team that is bidding to host the 2030 world cup), they had two types of goals in mind - first one if short term, and the second one is long term. Short term goals include popularizing the Saudi Professional League around the globe and attracting more viewership and revenues. But the long term goals are more important. They want to improve the quality of football in Saudi Arabia, and make that country one of the top destinations for sporting events. And I guess that $500 million is approximately the right amount to pay, for achieving the second set of goals.

[og kush420]

I think the Saudi Arabian league has started reaping from their investment in Cristiano Ronaldo. At least we have a Saudi League thread in bitcointalk. People are now attracted to the Saudi League and they are having the right publicity. But I think all this glamour and hype about Ronaldo would gradually reduce because his performance is going down and the league doesn't have the quality. If the Saudi league organizers fail to put certain modalities that would make the league more desirable, they would lose this attention.

The government of Saudi Arabia needs to invest more in the league. Other clubs must be given the financial backing that would enable them to buy quality players from other parts of the world. If more good players are present in other clubs, the league might become more entertaining. The government should also make policies that would make the country's cultural and religious rules more flexible for footballers and football fans.

When the Saudi Arabians decided to shell out close to $500 million for Ronaldo (half of that for representing Al Nassr and the other half for being a part of the Saudi team that is bidding to host the 2030 world cup), they had two types of goals in mind - first one if short term, and the second one is long term. Short term goals include popularizing the Saudi Professional League around the globe and attracting more viewership and revenues. But the long term goals are more important. They want to improve the quality of football in Saudi Arabia, and make that country one of the top destinations for sporting events. And I guess that $500 million is approximately the right amount to pay, for achieving the second set of goals.

The name Ronaldo - sells
Saudi has not made a bad deal and they have spent millions and earned billions and got recognized globally all across the world
Ronaldo also feel happy to be in Saudi - his appearance is much celebrated