Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

[nurilham]

Cristiano Ronaldo is an experience player and have achieved enough trophies in football, playing for Al-Nassr is just for fun to him, but he still wants to claimed that he's the best in the club and high expectations are only earned from his presence. Some of his teammates looks up to him as their GOAT and learning from him in every single game. He's just having a difficult phase, nothing serious, he will adapt to the club condition with time, we all know him to be an agressive player once his targets are not reached in games.

Although he already won many prestigious trophies/titles, I don't think he isn't serious or just for fun to join Al Nassr. It is a serious business, he is paid with big salary to win Saudi Pro League title. It is not only about making Al Nassr become more popular with Ronaldo. I'm pretty sure that Al Nassr owner targets to win the title of Saudi Pro League this season. Unfortunately, it is not as expected, Ronaldo got difficulty getting 3 points in a few matches. It includes the current match (against Al Feiha). Lossing 3 points in this match makes Al Nassr to be more difficult to win the title.

[samcoin]

in my opinion the best team is Ittihad FC, in all leagues the best team is the team that is at the top of the table.

Although there are a few remaining matches, Al Ittihad seems the closer team to win the title, not because they are at the top of the standings table now, but also because they showed stable performance throughout the season with only one loss from Al Hilal, who became far from the competition. Al Ittihad managed to get a draw from Al Nassr on Al Nassr's ground, and won against them at home. These results prove that Al Ittihad deserve to win the title that they have been seeking for years.

Although he already won many prestigious trophies/titles, I don't think he isn't serious or just for fun to join Al Nassr. It is a serious business, he is paid with big salary to win Saudi Pro League title.

I think he will get paid whether Al Nassr won or not, so the results might not look important to him. A player who has won the Champions League 4 times won't be interested in winning the SPL, in my opinion. This is the result when a players play for money, which looks clear in Ronaldo's situation.

 

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Although he already won many prestigious trophies/titles, I don't think he isn't serious or just for fun to join Al Nassr. It is a serious business, he is paid with big salary to win Saudi Pro League title. It is not only about making Al Nassr become more popular with Ronaldo. I'm pretty sure that Al Nassr owner targets to win the title of Saudi Pro League this season. Unfortunately, it is not as expected, Ronaldo got difficulty getting 3 points in a few matches. It includes the current match (against Al Feiha). Lossing 3 points in this match makes Al Nassr to be more difficult to win the title.

why is it so difficult for Al-nassr to win a trophy this season. in fact they are only 3 points behind ittihad fc. don't they still have a pretty big chance if we look at what they've done so far. Al nassr must really focus not to lose points in the upcoming match that's what they have to do. For Ronaldo, if he fails to get a trophy this season, it doesn't mean he will fail this season because he came to Al Nassr in the second half of the season, in fact he has made a big change for Al Nassr since he joined last season's transfer window.

A big salary will not be a burden for Ronaldo because the Saudi League will be the easiest match for his football career if we see him achieve success in the UCL, Laliga and EPL.

[shogun47]

Unfortunately, this match ended in a draw with a score of 0-0. even though Al Nassr actually controlled 59% ball possession, 18 total shots, 3 of which were on target, 12 shots off target, 3 shots blocked.

On the other hand, Al Ittihad is playing an away match at Al Wehda's house. The first match has just ended, but the standings are temporary with a score of 0-2 for Al Ittihad.

It was a shocking result for Al Nassr and great achievement for Al Fayha considering that Al Nassr played with a complete lineup, but it seems Ronaldo, Talsica and the others weren't able to score, knowing that the referee deleted two goals, one for each team. In the other match, Al Ittihad managed to earn an important 3 points against Al Wehda. This win will give them great advancement because they widened the gap with Al Nassr to 3 points, which means even if they lose one of the remaining matches, they will still be the winner of the title because they have the advantage in the direct confrontations with Al Nassr. Moreover, winning their next match against Al Shabab would increase their priority to win the title.

The competence that is close for a long have got widened. Al-Nassr unable to make a goal is completely unexpected. It is the second time Al-Nassr is ending the match against Al-Fayha. Four other matches played were won by Al-Nassr. In all means Al-Nassr have tried to make goals, but none have got converted to a goal. In the full time 5 shots were made on the target and the team have made 14 fouls. It seems like they're lucky the team didn't had any penalty shootout. The next match for Al-Nassr is against Al-Hilal which is going to be tough as the track record itself is in favour of Al-Hilal.

I think this coming game is very interesting, for me Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal are the best teams in this league, as far as I'm concerned I think Al Nassr has a slight advantage because they have CR7,it's and a player who can go on a hot streak and suddenly do a hattrick and leave everyone on the pitch. At the moment things can look different with this league, it is Starting to generate quite a bit of noise and it is clear that famous players bring a lot of life to a league.

These two teams have got the best foreign players as of now. Everyone are much experienced compared to the teams having young players who are physically strong and lacks tricks and techniques. The presence of Ronaldo is an added advantage for Al-Nassr and this have created more expectation on Al-Nassr. Earlier Al-Nassr and Al-Hilal have faced in 31 matches and Al-Nassr have won 11 matches whereas Al-Hilal have won 14 matches and 6 matches ended in draw. As mentioned the world will be watching, will the presence of Ronaldo creates any big moments for Al-Nassr.

in my opinion the best team is Ittihad FC, in all leagues the best team is the team that is at the top of the table, it doesn't matter if there are very rich and famous players when those same rich and famous players are in a team that is not at the top, team that is at the top and that is considered the best team in my opinion, and at the moment the best team in the league is Ittihad FC, they are the favorites to win the league and the cup, so without a doubt that they are the best team in the league, when ronaldo's team i think they still lack more good players in other positions, the law on soccer in arabia is a big impediment to the development of soccer

Truth be told, those Arabs don't know how to play, they don't have talent, they need to practice with foreign players and for that it would be necessary to change the laws and put one in place that only obliges that in the field each team would have to have at least 3 players from Arabia and the remaining foreigners, with that the teams would have many foreigners, the natives would be forced to make an effort to compete equally with the foreigners, but I think that these Arabs will not change that, and as a result players like ronaldo will get frustrated by playing with Arab players who don't even know how to pass well, don't know how to shoot well

What you say is right when you are so deep into the season. Luck evens out over time. You can be lucky for a game or two or even three and the same can happen to your opponent, but when you played more than 20 games it is obvious who is likely to be the best team for the moment. Now it still very close and too early to draw final conclusions, but Ronaldo also behaved a bit awkward after the game when he accused the opponents of not willing to play soccer. Well, what do you expect from an underdog? To nonstop attack and open up their defensive lines? Of course not and Ronaldo is so proud of his leg muscles and how hard he can shoot, why not score one from a distance then?

[Vaskiy]

Although he already won many prestigious trophies/titles, I don't think he isn't serious or just for fun to join Al Nassr. It is a serious business, he is paid with big salary to win Saudi Pro League title. It is not only about making Al Nassr become more popular with Ronaldo. I'm pretty sure that Al Nassr owner targets to win the title of Saudi Pro League this season. Unfortunately, it is not as expected, Ronaldo got difficulty getting 3 points in a few matches. It includes the current match (against Al Feiha). Lossing 3 points in this match makes Al Nassr to be more difficult to win the title.

why is it so difficult for Al-nassr to win a trophy this season. in fact they are only 3 points behind ittihad fc. don't they still have a pretty big chance if we look at what they've done so far. Al nassr must really focus not to lose points in the upcoming match that's what they have to do. For Ronaldo, if he fails to get a trophy this season, it doesn't mean he will fail this season because he came to Al Nassr in the second half of the season, in fact he has made a big change for Al Nassr since he joined last season's transfer window.

A big salary will not be a burden for Ronaldo because the Saudi League will be the easiest match for his football career if we see him achieve success in the UCL, Laliga and EPL.

Above is the list of each team winning the Saudi Arabia Pro League trophy. Al-Hilal tops the list and Al-Nassr stands next to it. Al-Ittihad stand in the third position with 8 trophy wins. Al-Shabab stands next to it. This means the competence is high within these teams for a long. The competence haven't increased just on the presence of Ronaldo. He's considered to be a support system for the team to progress better.

As Al-Hilal draw the match against Al-Ta'ee now the team have moved down to fourth position while Al-Shabab have moved to the third position on the points table. So small difference continues from the start of the league which needs to be overcome at the earliest to have advantage on winning the trophy.

[BRINIRHA]

Cristiano Ronaldo is an experience player and have achieved enough trophies in football, playing for Al-Nassr is just for fun to him, but he still wants to claimed that he's the best in the club and high expectations are only earned from his presence. Some of his teammates looks up to him as their GOAT and learning from him in every single game. He's just having a difficult phase, nothing serious, he will adapt to the club condition with time, we all know him to be an agressive player once his targets are not reached in games.

Although he already won many prestigious trophies/titles, I don't think he isn't serious or just for fun to join Al Nassr. It is a serious business, he is paid with big salary to win Saudi Pro League title. It is not only about making Al Nassr become more popular with Ronaldo. I'm pretty sure that Al Nassr owner targets to win the title of Saudi Pro League this season. Unfortunately, it is not as expected, Ronaldo got difficulty getting 3 points in a few matches. It includes the current match (against Al Feiha). Lossing 3 points in this match makes Al Nassr to be more difficult to win the title.

Correct. Cristiano Ronaldo even always fights hard in every match. But in the match against Al-feiha, Cristiano was really guarded by the Al-feiha players. even the left and right of Cristiano Ronaldo continued to be blocked by Al-Feiha's defenders. so that the Al-Nassr players had difficulty directing the ball to Cristiano Ronaldo. Al-Feiha understands very well that if they manage to block the path of the ball to Cristiano Ronaldo, then Al-Nassr's attack will be weak. and sure enough, even though Al-Nassr kept pressing Al-Feiha's defense, the accuracy of Al-Nassr's forward players was really bad in that match. and Cristiano Ronaldo also found it difficult to move freely in the match because he was heavily guarded. I saw Cristiano Ronaldo's face so upset at the end of the match. I understand he was annoyed because he was kept under tight guard so he couldn't contribute much in the fight. and this frustration is proof that Cristiano Ronaldo really takes every game he plays seriously with Al-Nassr. I hope the other teams don't copy Al-feiha's strategy of blocking Cristiano Ronaldo throughout the match. because that will make it difficult for Al-nassr to develop the game again.

[rahmad2nd]

in my opinion the best team is Ittihad FC, in all leagues the best team is the team that is at the top of the table, it doesn't matter if there are very rich and famous players when those same rich and famous players are in a team that is not at the top, team that is at the top and that is considered the best team in my opinion, and at the moment the best team in the league is Ittihad FC, they are the favorites to win the league and the cup, so without a doubt that they are the best team in the league, when ronaldo's team i think they still lack more good players in other positions, the law on soccer in arabia is a big impediment to the development of soccer

For this season, yes, definitely, as they currently lead the table. but to become a champion, or winner of the Saudi Pro League trophy, that is not certain. because after all, the Saudi Pro League still has 7 matches left. that means, there is still a chance for the team under them. although currently, Al Ittihad is 3 points ahead of Al Nassr, but that does not mean they have confirmed being the winner in this competition. as I said, this competition still has 7 matches remaining.
if Al Ittihad is able to wipe out every remaining game with a win, then they have the right to be the winner in this competition.  I don't know whether Al Ittihad has ever won a trophy in this competition. but if I try to find information from this team, Al Ittihad has never won the Saudi Pro League trophy from the 2011 season until now. therefore, now is the time for them to grab it.

Truth be told, those Arabs don't know how to play, they don't have talent, they need to practice with foreign players and for that it would be necessary to change the laws and put one in place that only obliges that in the field each team would have to have at least 3 players from Arabia and the remaining foreigners, with that the teams would have many foreigners, the natives would be forced to make an effort to compete equally with the foreigners, but I think that these Arabs will not change that, and as a result players like ronaldo will get frustrated by playing with Arab players who don't even know how to pass well, don't know how to shoot well

Related to this one, what you say is actually not the right solution or solving the problem of developing football in their country. however, if the Arab League wants to progress like the European Leagues. at least, they should start from an early age. in particular, creating academies that produce talented young players. if that is done, in the next 10 years, this country will have many more great players, talented and professional.

[cygan]

Cristiano Ronaldo's club al-nasr riyadh will probably get a new coach, at least that's what the spanish newspaper 'marca' reports. according to the report, the current coach Rudi Garcia (in position since july 2022) is said to have been sacked not only for sporting reasons, but also by an altercation in the locker room...

[FanEagle]

Maybe the rest of the team should use that as a benefit? They were not ready for something like this obviously but when opponents guard Ronaldo that well, that means there must be someone else out in the open and they could pass to those players instead of trying to pass to Ronaldo all the time.

Right now, they are focusing too much on making Ronaldo score, and other teams know about this and guard him very well which leaves Al-Nassr without having any type of understanding how they could continue to play, whereas if we are talking about a better manager, then the solution would have been find out another scorer, like Talisca, or if he doesn't play someone else, and switch to focus there to make sure defenders can stop both.

[Lordhermes]

Maybe the rest of the team should use that as a benefit? They were not ready for something like this obviously but when opponents guard Ronaldo that well, that means there must be someone else out in the open and they could pass to those players instead of trying to pass to Ronaldo all the time.

Right now, they are focusing too much on making Ronaldo score, and other teams know about this and guard him very well which leaves Al-Nassr without having any type of understanding how they could continue to play, whereas if we are talking about a better manager, then the solution would have been find out another scorer, like Talisca, or if he doesn't play someone else, and switch to focus there to make sure defenders can stop both.

when you have a big player like Ronaldo in your club, assisting his goal is an advantage to the player too. So everyone wants to be popular in the team. Don't blame them for building the team around Ronaldo. He's the market of the club. Once he scores the world will be aware then anyone else in the club.

[shogun47]

Now it is said that Ronaldo has issues with his coach at Al-Nassr... Guys what is wrong with Ronaldo? I can't of course verify whether the news are true, but if there is any substance to those news, I really wonder what your opinions are? Ronaldo can't go anywhere and believe he is the boss out of a sudden. On what grounds does he put his arguments? Why doesn't he become Portugal's president? I mean he scored the most goals for Portugal.

Again, I don't know if it is true, but if it is, Ronaldo is degrading himself into a ridiculous person. He has to accept as everyone of us that there are encounters in life you like, and some that you don't like. But you can't just with brutal force change the circumstances every single time.

[Juggy777]

Now it is said that Ronaldo has issues with his coach at Al-Nassr... Guys what is wrong with Ronaldo? I can't of course verify whether the news are true, but if there is any substance to those news, I really wonder what your opinions are? Ronaldo can't go anywhere and believe he is the boss out of a sudden. On what grounds does he put his arguments? Why doesn't he become Portugal's president? I mean he scored the most goals for Portugal.

Again, I don't know if it is true, but if it is, Ronaldo is degrading himself into a ridiculous person. He has to accept as everyone of us that there are encounters in life you like, and some that you don't like. But you can't just with brutal force change the circumstances every single time.

@shogun47 I personally believe that there’re two key reasons for this, and the first reason is that Ronaldo is genuinely unhappy with how the coach was managing the team and he decided that getting rid of him was the best solution for the team.

Further the second reason could be is that Ronaldo is trying to play the villain, and force the club to either sell him or release him just in time for the summer transfer window and at this stage we can only speculate which reason really made him get rid of the coach.

[BRINIRHA]

Now it is said that Ronaldo has issues with his coach at Al-Nassr... Guys what is wrong with Ronaldo? I can't of course verify whether the news are true, but if there is any substance to those news, I really wonder what your opinions are? Ronaldo can't go anywhere and believe he is the boss out of a sudden. On what grounds does he put his arguments? Why doesn't he become Portugal's president? I mean he scored the most goals for Portugal.

Again, I don't know if it is true, but if it is, Ronaldo is degrading himself into a ridiculous person. He has to accept as everyone of us that there are encounters in life you like, and some that you don't like. But you can't just with brutal force change the circumstances every single time.

I even heard that the coach of Al-Nassr (Rudi Garcia) has been sacked. But I can not confirm the truth of this news. because this is based on local news in my country. but if it's true. then I would not be surprised by something like this. because this is not the only time that Cr7 has made a coach leave the club. before when Cr7 played at Juventus and at Manchester United the same thing had happened. but strangely it is true that the team's performance after changing coaches has indeed gotten better.

[arimamib]

I even heard that the coach of Al-Nassr (Rudi Garcia) has been sacked. But I can not confirm the truth of this news. because this is based on local news in my country. but if it's true. then I would not be surprised by something like this. because this is not the only time that Cr7 has made a coach leave the club. before when Cr7 played at Juventus and at Manchester United the same thing had happened. but strangely it is true that the team's performance after changing coaches has indeed gotten better.

This news appeared in the media where it was published that Ronaldo had an argument with the coach which made management make the decision to fire the coach. I don't know if this news is true or not because some media carry quite the same news. In my opinion, management is very special to Ronaldo and that is natural because since his arrival at Al Nassr he has been able to make the Al Nassr team known all over the world and also the Saudi Arabian League is increasingly famous.

Fabrizio didn't even include this news in his tweet which makes this news less accurate in its truth. But I think garcia is worth keeping until the end of this season because al nassr are still in pretty good shape in the title race they are only 3 points away from ittihad fc.

[rendravolt]

Now it is said that Ronaldo has issues with his coach at Al-Nassr... Guys what is wrong with Ronaldo? I can't of course verify whether the news are true, but if there is any substance to those news, I really wonder what your opinions are? Ronaldo can't go anywhere and believe he is the boss out of a sudden. On what grounds does he put his arguments? Why doesn't he become Portugal's president? I mean he scored the most goals for Portugal.

Again, I don't know if it is true, but if it is, Ronaldo is degrading himself into a ridiculous person. He has to accept as everyone of us that there are encounters in life you like, and some that you don't like. But you can't just with brutal force change the circumstances every single time.

Ronaldo is a football star and things like this have become commonplace when Ronaldo is under pressure if he doesn't get maximum results for the club he defends. Maybe he was just annoyed because yesterday Al-Nassr could only play a draw and surely that attacked his psyche to continue to blame the situation. At the same time maybe he was angry because the coach was responsible for the result. Well, I think this problem will not last long and if it proves to be true then I hope he and the coach can work together again on the pitch.

[Strongkored]

Fabrizio didn't even include this news in his tweet which makes this news less accurate in its truth. But I think garcia is worth keeping until the end of this season because al nassr are still in pretty good shape in the title race they are only 3 points away from ittihad fc.

It could be that this is true news https://www.marca.com/en/football/2023/04/12/64368a4a268e3e04498b4593.html
that Al Nassr had sacked their coach and the cause was problems in the dressing room because he was deemed not to have good communication with the players in the dressing room, and also a drop in performance because management saw Rudi Garcia failing to make this team a better  in the league this season having been knocked out in the Arab Super Cup even though in the tournament Al Nassr has a good history there.

This decision is to allow Al Nassr to still have a chance in the league as there are still quite a few games left, but it will really depend on Ittihad FC if they can win all the remaining games then Al Nassr just have to be happy with the secondposition of that team.

[RealMalatesta]

Maybe the rest of the team should use that as a benefit? They were not ready for something like this obviously but when opponents guard Ronaldo that well, that means there must be someone else out in the open and they could pass to those players instead of trying to pass to Ronaldo all the time.

Right now, they are focusing too much on making Ronaldo score, and other teams know about this and guard him very well which leaves Al-Nassr without having any type of understanding how they could continue to play, whereas if we are talking about a better manager, then the solution would have been find out another scorer, like Talisca, or if he doesn't play someone else, and switch to focus there to make sure defenders can stop both.

when you have a big player like Ronaldo in your club, assisting his goal is an advantage to the player too. So everyone wants to be popular in the team. Don't blame them for building the team around Ronaldo. He's the market of the club. Once he scores the world will be aware then anyone else in the club.

I think the fact that he would be upset about the manager is given considering who he played with in his career. Think about it, this dude has had managers that were world class up until now, all the managers that worked with him has been great managers, aside from maybe a few ones lets say.

However, here he is managed by someone who is much under that level, maybe the manager is someone good in this league I do not know him, but he is not a world level and that's why Ronaldo might have trouble with it. I am pretty sure that after 20 years playing in the big leagues like that, even Ronaldo must be a better manager and if he was player-manager right now, they could have gotten better results for sure.

[Hallroom]

Now it is said that Ronaldo has issues with his coach at Al-Nassr... Guys what is wrong with Ronaldo? I can't of course verify whether the news are true, but if there is any substance to those news, I really wonder what your opinions are? Ronaldo can't go anywhere and believe he is the boss out of a sudden. On what grounds does he put his arguments? Why doesn't he become Portugal's president? I mean he scored the most goals for Portugal.

Again, I don't know if it is true, but if it is, Ronaldo is degrading himself into a ridiculous person. He has to accept as everyone of us that there are encounters in life you like, and some that you don't like. But you can't just with brutal force change the circumstances every single time.

I even heard that the coach of Al-Nassr (Rudi Garcia) has been sacked. But I can not confirm the truth of this news. because this is based on local news in my country. but if it's true. then I would not be surprised by something like this. because this is not the only time that Cr7 has made a coach leave the club. before when Cr7 played at Juventus and at Manchester United the same thing had happened. but strangely it is true that the team's performance after changing coaches has indeed gotten better.

When the coach changes, the reputation of the club and the playing style of the players definitely changes. On the other hand, Cristiano Ronaldo is also experienced in playing the role of a coach because when he enters the field, he orders the players to play well. When the next new coach comes in, he must try to perform better because he has to show better skills than the previous coach.  However, if the coach changes, Al Nassr Club will definitely show good performance and will be at the top of the club level in the Saudi League.

[Lordhermes]

Very good move to create this thread,  this is not just about Ronaldo world will know about Saudi league and their teams and players . Before this thread there are only European league threads , now this  will promote and develop people know how about Arab league .
How can only one player change the popularity of any country we are experiencing that now .
Looking forward to Ronaldos first match tomorrow .

The league is well known now because of Ronaldo, we can't pretend about it. Ronaldo is a bigger influence of the game, he's loved in the world and everyone wants to know about him. Saudi Arabia are lucky to have Such an influencer footballer in the league. By next transfer window big players will sign in the league just because of Ronaldo.

[MusaMohamed]

The league is well known now because of Ronaldo, we can't pretend about it. Ronaldo is a bigger influence of the game, he's loved in the world and everyone wants to know about him. Saudi Arabia are lucky to have Such an influencer footballer in the league. By next transfer window big players will sign in the league just because of Ronaldo.

He can change the league like Brazilian Zico changed the Japanese League 1 many years ago. After Cristiano joined Saudi Professional League, it caught more attention from the Europe and more communication, television companies bought license to add this league to their sport programs. It help the league and clubs there have more income from television rights.

Even if it is not important for those rich clubs, it help them to gain more fans and more important, more star players will add the league into their potential list if they want to find a new club.

It could be that this is true news https://www.marca.com/en/football/2023/04/12/64368a4a268e3e04498b4593.html
that Al Nassr had sacked their coach and the cause was problems in the dressing room because he was deemed not to have good communication with the players in the dressing room, and also a drop in performance because management saw Rudi Garcia failing to make this team a better  in the league this season having been knocked out in the Arab Super Cup even though in the tournament Al Nassr has a good history there.

Rudi Garcia is a good coach but he is not a type of big coach like previous coaches who worked with Cristiano Ronaldo in his career. I feel it is not good with this request from Cristiano. It makes him more selfish and think of himself too much and only want to have instant success with his clubs. From Manchester United to Al Nassr, he does not have enough patience to win titles with his clubs. Partially it can be because he is aware that his career is ending.

This decision is to allow Al Nassr to still have a chance in the league as there are still quite a few games left, but it will really depend on Ittihad FC if they can win all the remaining games then Al Nassr just have to be happy with the secondposition of that team.

3 points are not too big but not many remaining matches and Al Ittihad simply are strong and dominating in Saudi Professional League. They are able to win all remaining matches and make all efforts of Al Nassr players mean nothing.