Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

[el kaka22]

Not a lot of people watched Ziyech apparently, he had one of the most terrible seasons of his career, he was better even when he was like 16-17 as a young kid, this was the worst season. This made other teams doubt is talents, even Saudi league didn't trust him, you think 12-13 is a lot?

For Saudi league that's nothing, they pay that to lower league players, I remember them getting some striker from a non-top20 league team and they still paid him 11 million. So this is literally the worst place for any player, a point where even Saudi league doesn't think you worth their money. I would say it would be understandable to accept if it was 30 or more, that's a lot, but this just means nobody in the world willing to take a risk on him at all.

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[Fausto Arta]

Not a lot of people watched Ziyech apparently, he had one of the most terrible seasons of his career, he was better even when he was like 16-17 as a young kid, this was the worst season. This made other teams doubt is talents, even Saudi league didn't trust him, you think 12-13 is a lot?

For Saudi league that's nothing, they pay that to lower league players, I remember them getting some striker from a non-top20 league team and they still paid him 11 million. So this is literally the worst place for any player, a point where even Saudi league doesn't think you worth their money. I would say it would be understandable to accept if it was 30 or more, that's a lot, but this just means nobody in the world willing to take a risk on him at all.

That statement is not entirely accurate. Some teams may offer players a lower salary but provide larger bonuses to avoid higher tax deductions imposed by the country. It is also unreasonable to claim that Ziyech is not adequately appreciated, especially when comparing him to players signed from lower leagues who receive higher salaries. All players would refuse to join a club if they were treated in such a manner, even if it is a top and wealthy club seeking to sign them.

It is possible that the club currently contracting Ziyech is also navigating and circumventing their transfer policies to balance the club's financial expenses and revenue, thus avoiding penalties. Take, for example, Barcelona, who had to part ways with Messi as a free transfer to PSG due to their financial constraints at the time. The club's income was unstable due to the pandemic.

Hopefully, the Saudi Arabian League will bring a fresh perspective for us to enjoy football in the upcoming season, with the presence of former European star players. In the long run, the Saudi Arabian League may become a fierce competitor to the top European leagues. Their financial capabilities enable them not only to acquire players but also to purchase European clubs, if they so desire.

[rahmad2nd]

I was not expecting to see Hakim Ziyech joining the Saudi teams because he can still have good performance in the European teams. Hakim Ziyech is just 30 and he could play there for at least 2 or 3 more years. However, Ziyech is going to have 12-13 million per year from Al Nasr which is a good amount of salary for a player like him to have a bad season at Chelsea.

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Because the condition that Ziyech is currently facing is that Chelsea are looking to build their team from scratch, so they have chosen to sell quite a number of players who may not be deemed in accordance with what they are trying to build. It seems that Chelsea will only retain young players, last season was a nightmare for all Chelsea players so it also affected the players including Ziyech because last season he only played 18 times without a goal and only made 3 assists.
Hakim Ziyech at Al Nassr will get a portion of playing as a main player because it will be a waste of money if he is only on the bench, by playing as a main player he still has the chance to restore his career which had dimmed last season due to the fate of his club, and the most enjoyable is his salary at Al Nassr is several million dollars more than he is used to at Chelsea.

Assumption, considering when Ziyech was with Chelsea, he didn't have many minutes to play a lot. that's why, his talent and skills can't be brought out because he doesn't have the playing time he wants. Also remember, Chelsea has experienced several changes of coaches. but unfortunately, Ziyech was still not included in the coach's project to become the main starter in his squad. in fact, Hakimi Ziyech performed brilliantly with the Morocco national team, Ziyech could not have the trust of the Chelsea coaches.

As for PSG's interest, it was forced to fail due to the wrong factor in sending the document. I think, bad luck is testing the player. which in the end, Al Nassr eyed him to join his team in the Saudi Pro League competition. isn't it something he expects, to show the talents and skills he has. moreover, Ziyech is very familiar with the culture in Saudi. So, it would be a shame to let go of that opportunity even though Ziyech can still play at a European club. however, with consideration and what he felt when he was with Chelsea. it seems, the player has determined his future club. plus, get a very large salary. I'm also quite sure, if a player of Ziyech's level is able to show his skills with Al Nasr.
well, to find out more.  let's just wait, when the new season competition has been rolled out.

[Leviathan.007]

I was not expecting to see Hakim Ziyech joining the Saudi teams because he can still have good performance in the European teams. Hakim Ziyech is just 30 and he could play there for at least 2 or 3 more years. However, Ziyech is going to have 12-13 million per year from Al Nasr which is a good amount of salary for a player like him to have a bad season at Chelsea.

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Because the condition that Ziyech is currently facing is that Chelsea are looking to build their team from scratch, so they have chosen to sell quite a number of players who may not be deemed in accordance with what they are trying to build. It seems that Chelsea will only retain young players, last season was a nightmare for all Chelsea players so it also affected the players including Ziyech because last season he only played 18 times without a goal and only made 3 assists.
Hakim Ziyech at Al Nassr will get a portion of playing as a main player because it will be a waste of money if he is only on the bench, by playing as a main player he still has the chance to restore his career which had dimmed last season due to the fate of his club, and the most enjoyable is his salary at Al Nassr is several million dollars more than he is used to at Chelsea.

Assumption, considering when Ziyech was with Chelsea, he didn't have many minutes to play a lot. that's why, his talent and skills can't be brought out because he doesn't have the playing time he wants. Also remember, Chelsea has experienced several changes of coaches. but unfortunately, Ziyech was still not included in the coach's project to become the main starter in his squad. in fact, Hakimi Ziyech performed brilliantly with the Morocco national team, Ziyech could not have the trust of the Chelsea coaches.

As for PSG's interest, it was forced to fail due to the wrong factor in sending the document. I think, bad luck is testing the player. which in the end, Al Nassr eyed him to join his team in the Saudi Pro League competition. isn't it something he expects, to show the talents and skills he has. moreover, Ziyech is very familiar with the culture in Saudi. So, it would be a shame to let go of that opportunity even though Ziyech can still play at a European club. however, with consideration and what he felt when he was with Chelsea. it seems, the player has determined his future club. plus, get a very large salary. I'm also quite sure, if a player of Ziyech's level is able to show his skills with Al Nasr.
well, to find out more.  let's just wait, when the new season competition has been rolled out.

I think Hakim Ziyech made a bad decision to accept the offer from Al Nasr he is still not an old player and he had a good performance in Chseal however, maybe Hakim Ziyech is not part of the plan they have for Chelsea in the next season but still, a player like Ziyech could wait and get better offers and stay in the European teams

[BRINIRHA]

It seems that the recruitment of up to 100 European football players will not materialize in the next few years unless all the teams in the Saudi league also do the same as what Al-Nassr, Al-Ittihad, Al-Hilal, and Al-Ahli have done because we I know very well that only the four teams above are able to provide that much salary.

Maybe the dream of bringing in these star players should be appreciated to advance the Saudi league or for other investments, but for now even in the next 5 years it's quite impossible. Regardless of all that, with the arrival of other European players or coaches who will join the Saudi league team, the attention of the whole world is now on Arabs and can't wait to see if they can be consistent or not later.

It is impossible to bring in 100 of Europe's top players in the transfer market this season and next season. What's more, as you said, those who are most hunting for European players are only the 4 teams that are under the auspices of PIF. which PIF certainly has very large finances that can support the 4 clubs to spend quite a lot. But in the current transfer market, there are actually quite a lot of players joining SPL clubs. but there are too many of them. but still, the presence of Benzema at Al-Ittihad and CR7 at Al-Nassr has become an extraordinary attraction for us not to want to miss the Arab league. I really want to see how Al-Nassr will deal with Al-ittihad. The meeting of the two players who used to be partners at Real Madrid will certainly make an interesting impression on the match.

But it is possible that these transfer activities stimulate more business potential domestically but also internationally. Sure the salaries are too high to pay off in sales of merchandise or stadium tickets, but they follow a vision, an agenda and although I can't fully understand what their goal is also in terms of finances and business, I believe they are not doing it to only burn money. They might be doing all of this to kick off a positive dynamic for their league although they are currently spoiling players with those unreal salary expectations. Players will soon say "no" to 40 million per year because it sounds like not enough.

Of course all efforts to bring in top European players must have a specific purpose other than to strengthen the club. Because we know that the Arabs have always been famous for the terms business and trade. Because basically the Arab nation is a nation that is good at doing business. For example Al-nassr brought in CR7. and I heard that in that season Al-nassr made a profit by selling a jersey bearing the CR7 back at a pretty fantastic price. And I think the club made more money after signing CR7. Because of course more sponsors have sprung up for the club after there were football stars and legends at Al-Nassr.

And the 4 biggest clubs in the Arab League have the most shares owned by PIF so that it can be said that PIF has 4 clubs that are now actively hunting for players from Europe and offering large salaries even many times that offered by any European club.

[shogun47]

It seems that the recruitment of up to 100 European football players will not materialize in the next few years unless all the teams in the Saudi league also do the same as what Al-Nassr, Al-Ittihad, Al-Hilal, and Al-Ahli have done because we I know very well that only the four teams above are able to provide that much salary.

Maybe the dream of bringing in these star players should be appreciated to advance the Saudi league or for other investments, but for now even in the next 5 years it's quite impossible. Regardless of all that, with the arrival of other European players or coaches who will join the Saudi league team, the attention of the whole world is now on Arabs and can't wait to see if they can be consistent or not later.

It is impossible to bring in 100 of Europe's top players in the transfer market this season and next season. What's more, as you said, those who are most hunting for European players are only the 4 teams that are under the auspices of PIF. which PIF certainly has very large finances that can support the 4 clubs to spend quite a lot. But in the current transfer market, there are actually quite a lot of players joining SPL clubs. but there are too many of them. but still, the presence of Benzema at Al-Ittihad and CR7 at Al-Nassr has become an extraordinary attraction for us not to want to miss the Arab league. I really want to see how Al-Nassr will deal with Al-ittihad. The meeting of the two players who used to be partners at Real Madrid will certainly make an interesting impression on the match.

But it is possible that these transfer activities stimulate more business potential domestically but also internationally. Sure the salaries are too high to pay off in sales of merchandise or stadium tickets, but they follow a vision, an agenda and although I can't fully understand what their goal is also in terms of finances and business, I believe they are not doing it to only burn money. They might be doing all of this to kick off a positive dynamic for their league although they are currently spoiling players with those unreal salary expectations. Players will soon say "no" to 40 million per year because it sounds like not enough.

Of course all efforts to bring in top European players must have a specific purpose other than to strengthen the club. Because we know that the Arabs have always been famous for the terms business and trade. Because basically the Arab nation is a nation that is good at doing business. For example Al-nassr brought in CR7. and I heard that in that season Al-nassr made a profit by selling a jersey bearing the CR7 back at a pretty fantastic price. And I think the club made more money after signing CR7. Because of course more sponsors have sprung up for the club after there were football stars and legends at Al-Nassr.

And the 4 biggest clubs in the Arab League have the most shares owned by PIF so that it can be said that PIF has 4 clubs that are now actively hunting for players from Europe and offering large salaries even many times that offered by any European club.

No, the whole nation isn't good at doing business. The upper class or more specifically all the leading members of the absolute monarchy are good at doing business although when you say this it raises the question whether they are good at doing business or whether they are lucky to be sitting on oil reservoirs. i mean who wouldn't be able to do good business when they inherit oil reservoirs?

But yes that is not the topic here. It is still frightening to think about soccer cultures like those in Europe when the SPL keeps up this spending level for a long time. It is not possible for European clubs to pay salaries like that without breaking rules and that could make the SPL very attractive once financial fair play kicks in harder and gets enforced. There is an upside and a downside to those rules in regards to international competition.

[baeva]

For now they attract the attention but if they want people to stick around they will need to bring in new players continuously or otherwise the positive effect will decrease. but the question is whether this PR campaign is done because of their World Cup application 2030 or whether their plan is to really build the best league in the world with the money they have and pull away the public audiences from other continents in the world. But that would need tremendous resources over a long period of time and for now it is not clear if all their activities serve a plan that goes beyond the World Cup.

The people who run it all obviously don't count the money, so they don't spare huge sums of money, I don't think it's a problem for them. As for the World Cup bid in 2030 I think it is unrelated, look at Qatar, did they do that? No, but the tournament turned out amazing. They used a different strategy, doing everything for tourists, didn't develop their league, it resulted in them spending several times more money to develop the whole thing, but made very little money from it. Let's see where Saudi Arabia's strategy leads. At this point there is essentially nothing to compare it with

[Slow death]

Al-nassr is making a lot of signings, today I saw a rumor that Al-nassr intends to hire the coach Luis castro who is currently the coach of a good team in the brazil league I speak of botafogo, I think it would be a good option, but if also If Al-nassr were looking to hire a Portuguese coach who was working with one of the top 5 teams in the Portuguese league, there is no doubt that Al-nassr would be making an excellent choice. I also saw that Al-nassr signed Marcelo Brozović who are finishing the last details

days ago Al-nassr also signed Hakim Ziyech's, this means that the team is becoming very strong, but I keep asking myself what happens to that rule that says you shouldn't play many foreign players in the field, this means that if you don't review this rule to accommodate these many foreign players on the field, so the Saudi league will not evolve, it is not enough to keep hiring many foreign players when the rules are still rules that do not contribute to the evolution of the Saudi league, I hope that the Saudi league leaders look into this all

[BRINIRHA]

It is impossible to bring in 100 of Europe's top players in the transfer market this season and next season. What's more, as you said, those who are most hunting for European players are only the 4 teams that are under the auspices of PIF. which PIF certainly has very large finances that can support the 4 clubs to spend quite a lot. But in the current transfer market, there are actually quite a lot of players joining SPL clubs. but there are too many of them. but still, the presence of Benzema at Al-Ittihad and CR7 at Al-Nassr has become an extraordinary attraction for us not to want to miss the Arab league. I really want to see how Al-Nassr will deal with Al-ittihad. The meeting of the two players who used to be partners at Real Madrid will certainly make an interesting impression on the match.

But it is possible that these transfer activities stimulate more business potential domestically but also internationally. Sure the salaries are too high to pay off in sales of merchandise or stadium tickets, but they follow a vision, an agenda and although I can't fully understand what their goal is also in terms of finances and business, I believe they are not doing it to only burn money. They might be doing all of this to kick off a positive dynamic for their league although they are currently spoiling players with those unreal salary expectations. Players will soon say "no" to 40 million per year because it sounds like not enough.

Of course all efforts to bring in top European players must have a specific purpose other than to strengthen the club. Because we know that the Arabs have always been famous for the terms business and trade. Because basically the Arab nation is a nation that is good at doing business. For example Al-nassr brought in CR7. and I heard that in that season Al-nassr made a profit by selling a jersey bearing the CR7 back at a pretty fantastic price. And I think the club made more money after signing CR7. Because of course more sponsors have sprung up for the club after there were football stars and legends at Al-Nassr.

And the 4 biggest clubs in the Arab League have the most shares owned by PIF so that it can be said that PIF has 4 clubs that are now actively hunting for players from Europe and offering large salaries even many times that offered by any European club.

No, the whole nation isn't good at doing business. The upper class or more specifically all the leading members of the absolute monarchy are good at doing business although when you say this it raises the question whether they are good at doing business or whether they are lucky to be sitting on oil reservoirs. i mean who wouldn't be able to do good business when they inherit oil reservoirs?

But yes that is not the topic here. It is still frightening to think about soccer cultures like those in Europe when the SPL keeps up this spending level for a long time. It is not possible for European clubs to pay salaries like that without breaking rules and that could make the SPL very attractive once financial fair play kicks in harder and gets enforced. There is an upside and a downside to those rules in regards to international competition.

Well maybe it's true what you say. But for PIF, which does have a large budget, it is still possible to continue to make high bids even in the coming seasons. because we know PIF manages very large finances. And the 4 clubs that are in the hands of PIF certainly won't be worried about money.

Saudi Arabia is indeed lucky because it has oil mining which makes their economy grow rapidly and become one of the strongest of all countries in Asia and even Europe. But in fact there are still many other countries that have oil mining but cannot make the country developed and prosperous like Saudi Arabia. for example in my country which actually has a very large oil mine. but unfortunately the processing of crude oil is still carried out by other countries. because of limited tools in our country. and this makes our country only get a slight profit and the one who gets the big profit is the crude oil processor from another country. And Saudi Arabia they are good at business and politics. They don't make mistakes like my country did. so that management and income can be fully obtained by them and make their country prosperous.

So I think these SPL clubs, especially the 4 clubs under PIF, will definitely continue to actively hunt for players for several seasons until their target is achieved. and one day maybe the European and Asian leagues especially Arab will both get equal attention in the world of football.

[ginsan]

Al-nassr is making a lot of signings, today I saw a rumor that Al-nassr intends to hire the coach Luis castro who is currently the coach of a good team in the brazil league I speak of botafogo, I think it would be a good option, but if also If Al-nassr were looking to hire a Portuguese coach who was working with one of the top 5 teams in the Portuguese league, there is no doubt that Al-nassr would be making an excellent choice. I also saw that Al-nassr signed Marcelo Brozović who are finishing the last details

days ago Al-nassr also signed Hakim Ziyech's, this means that the team is becoming very strong, but I keep asking myself what happens to that rule that says you shouldn't play many foreign players in the field, this means that if you don't review this rule to accommodate these many foreign players on the field, so the Saudi league will not evolve, it is not enough to keep hiring many foreign players when the rules are still rules that do not contribute to the evolution of the Saudi league, I hope that the Saudi league leaders look into this all

Al Nassr again got his target player to strengthen their midfield he is a pretty good midfielder who appeared with Inter Milan last season. Yes Brozovic will officially become an al Nassr player for next season and he will undergo medical tests in the near future. I think Brozovic arrival will make Al Nassr even stronger because previously they got Ziyech from Chelsea.

More and more quality players are leaving the European stage this season due to the temptation of extraordinary salaries from the Saudi Arabian league team. In fact, this league will be even more famous in the next season after they brought in some of Europe top players again. I think that if Allegri accepts an offer from Al Nassr to become their coach, of course Al Nassr will be the strongest team to win a trophy next season.

[asriloni]

I agree with you that every professional football player pursues two things: fame and money. Those who are willing to pay more for their skills are where they will anchor themselves. In this regard, the Saudi Arabian League is not yet as competitive as the top European leagues such as the English Premier League (EPL), La Liga, and Serie A. However, it is important to remember that the leagues I mentioned were not built in a few years to reach their current state. This is what we are witnessing now, where teams in the Saudi Arabian League, with full support from their government, are investing in football for the long term. By recruiting star players with experience like Ronaldo, Ziyech, Benzema, and Kante, they are demonstrating their commitment to building and investing in this sport.

Back to the main target by saudi to rebuild its league to support it to host 2030 world cup. That means if you can't expect the competition in saudi league gonna be as good as european competition. It's all need progress to make it happen. This country has so much money from selling oil.
Nothing impossible as long as you have money for it. Saudi is still having a few years remaining before 2030 world cup. This league gonna be even crazier soon.

It is not impossible for the Saudi Arabian League, with its financial influence, to attract young and emerging star players. That could very well happen. In the future, they could also bring in the best coaches who can improve their teams. With these developments, I believe that this league can rise to a higher level and become a competitor to other top leagues.

Everything gonna change with the goes of time. Nothing impossible as long as you have money in your pocket. European players are still skeptical with saudi pro league but they will change their mind soon.
Saudi's project has just started last year when ronaldo moves to the al nassr.

[X-ray]

Al Nassr has been targeting Brozovic from Intermilan, but Brozovic has not yet agreed to join Nassr due to salary issues, so Nassr is now getting a new target while waiting for an answer from brozovic and intermilan. It's RB lens's captain seko fofana who has been targeted by al nassr to be bought by the club this season.

I don't know whether he should bargain too hard. The offer from Al Nassr to Marcelo Brozović was really good and would have seen a 2x increase in his salary. As per reports, Brozovic is close to a deal with FC Barcelona. Al Nassr was willing to offer €20 million, but the Croatian superstar wanted a minimum of €30 million. A delegation from Saudi Pro League met with the player at his hometown (Zagreb), but the negotiations reportedly came to a roadblock over salary. Anyway, it looks like Brozovic is not that interested in moving to Saudi Arabia. I just hope that everything will turn out well for him at Barcelona.

Where did you see that? It's confirmed by romano if brozovic has said yes for nassr's proposal. https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1674501730128523289

Barcelona has not been even approaching him caused by barcelona knew if its club gonna lose in competition to get him. Brozovic never said he was not interesting with saudi club but he was only saying if saudi's offer is not enough for him.

It's likely saudi paid what brozovic wants. That's why he has been agreed to join i the al nassr.

Here we go. Two superstars will come to the intermilan. that's firmino and brozovic.

[zuzie]

Where did you see that? It's confirmed by romano if brozovic has said yes for nassr's proposal. https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1674501730128523289

Barcelona has not been even approaching him caused by barcelona knew if its club gonna lose in competition to get him. Brozovic never said he was not interesting with saudi club but he was only saying if saudi's offer is not enough for him.

It's likely saudi paid what brozovic wants. That's why he has been agreed to join i the al nassr.

Here we go. Two superstars will come to the intermilan. that's firmino and brozovic.

Maybe he didn't get the latest news, the latest news is that Marcelo Brozovic agrees with a salary offer of 25 million per season and now to the medical test stage
Barcelona is indeed interested in bringing Marcelo Brozovic but Barcelona is limited by financial problem so they don't continue the offer.
Anyway, next month Brozovic is officially introduced in front of Al Naasr supporters there should be no more obstacles.

[hd49728]

Maybe he didn't get the latest news, the latest news is that Marcelo Brozovic agrees with a salary offer of 25 million per season and now to the medical test stage

Anyway, next month Brozovic is officially introduced in front of Al Naasr supporters there should be no more obstacles.

Brozovic just made a good decision for rest of his career. Joining Saudi Professional League, becoming a team mate of Cristiano Ronaldo and enjoying very good salary without income tax in Saudi Arabia. It is a dream for him.

This salary is about x3 of his salary in Inter Milan in 2022 - 2023 season according to https://m.aiscore.com/salary/player-marcelo-brozovic-edq09ip5l5fmqxg

Barcelona is indeed interested in bringing Marcelo Brozovic but Barcelona is limited by financial problem so they don't continue the offer.

Barcelona won't be able to convince star players because they are less competitive in salary offer and we have to think that Barcelona did not play well in Champions League and Europa League last season. With old players like Brozovic, they will choose to move to clubs which can help they to win big titles or can give them very good salary.

[zuzie]

Barcelona won't be able to convince star players because they are less competitive in salary offer and we have to think that Barcelona did not play well in Champions League and Europa League last season. With old players like Brozovic, they will choose to move to clubs which can help they to win big titles or can give them very good salary.

Well that's the main point, this season Barcelona will watch more in the transfer window they cannot move especially if their competitor are the Saudi League
Is there anyone who heard which team tried to bring De Gea from Manchester United? reportedly De Gea rejected his latest contract offer so one of the clubs from the Saudi League is interested in bringing it but I don't know which club is meant, I hope it is Al Nassr 

[BRINIRHA]

Barcelona won't be able to convince star players because they are less competitive in salary offer and we have to think that Barcelona did not play well in Champions League and Europa League last season. With old players like Brozovic, they will choose to move to clubs which can help they to win big titles or can give them very good salary.

Well that's the main point, this season Barcelona will watch more in the transfer window they cannot move especially if their competitor are the Saudi League
Is there anyone who heard which team tried to bring De Gea from Manchester United? reportedly De Gea rejected his latest contract offer so one of the clubs from the Saudi League is interested in bringing it but I don't know which club is meant, I hope it is Al Nassr 

I too am waiting for De Gea's news at Manchester United. Until a few days ago there was no contract extension agreement between De Gea and Man United. De Gea still objects to Man United's excessive salary cut if the contract is re-signed.

And De Gea's contract at Man United actually ends today, June 30. So that starting tomorrow De Gea is on a free transfer.

I also heard about the news that one of the Arab clubs was interested in De Gea. But I heard that the club that is interested in signing De Gea is Al-Hilal. And that news is actually quite old news, namely in the middle of this season. And until now there has been no further news.

[Sithara007]

Maybe he didn't get the latest news, the latest news is that Marcelo Brozovic agrees with a salary offer of 25 million per season and now to the medical test stage
Barcelona is indeed interested in bringing Marcelo Brozovic but Barcelona is limited by financial problem so they don't continue the offer.
Anyway, next month Brozovic is officially introduced in front of Al Naasr supporters there should be no more obstacles.

I don't know what is going on with Marcelo Brozovic. A few hours ago, it was reported that he will be moving to Barcelona as Al Nassr was not ready to pay the amount that he was demanding. The Saudi club was willing to pay €20 million per year, while the player was demanding €30 million. But now, there are reports that a deal has been finally reached between the two sides. But I still have doubts regarding the final deal. Some are reporting that he will receive around €25 million per year. But according to Fabrizio Romano, the deal is worth €100 million for 3 years until June 2026 (which works out to €33.3 million per year). Anyway, I would say that Brozovic chose the best option that was available to him. Congratulations!!!

[zuzie]

Maybe he didn't get the latest news, the latest news is that Marcelo Brozovic agrees with a salary offer of 25 million per season and now to the medical test stage
Barcelona is indeed interested in bringing Marcelo Brozovic but Barcelona is limited by financial problem so they don't continue the offer.
Anyway, next month Brozovic is officially introduced in front of Al Naasr supporters there should be no more obstacles.

I don't know what is going on with Marcelo Brozovic. A few hours ago, it was reported that he will be moving to Barcelona as Al Nassr was not ready to pay the amount that he was demanding. The Saudi club was willing to pay €20 million per year, while the player was demanding €30 million. But now, there are reports that a deal has been finally reached between the two sides. But I still have doubts regarding the final deal. Some are reporting that he will receive around €25 million per year. But according to Fabrizio Romano, the deal is worth €100 million for 3 years until June 2026 (which works out to €33.3 million per year). Anyway, I would say that Brozovic chose the best option that was available to him. Congratulations!!!

Officially his salary is 25 Million per season and the contract will run for 3 seasons in these 3 seasons he will be paid 75 million + bonus of 25 million
If calculated, he will earn 33.3 million per season it's just that we don't know whether the bonus is given for free or there are other requirements so bonuses are not included in the payroll per season or will only be paid if he plays full 3 seasons.

[asriloni]

There are two bad news come for saudi pro league. All of this news is coming from al hilal. Lukaku has been officially rejecting 45 millions pounds offer from al hilal while at the same time jose mourinho was rejecting al hilal too.
These are very bad for al hilal. Al hilal faces so many difficulties in recruiting the new players after messi has been rejecting the club's offer. Lukaku was doing a stupid thing by rejecting it.

The same offer will not come again for twice. He may also be a useless player in intermilan next season. His performance was always up and down.
Chelsea shall sell him asap to the intermilan.

There is also another option if chelsea may keep him for next season. Rejecting al hilal's offer was very bad. Al Hilal needs to put more efforts in targeting new player from european league.

[shogun47]

For now they attract the attention but if they want people to stick around they will need to bring in new players continuously or otherwise the positive effect will decrease. but the question is whether this PR campaign is done because of their World Cup application 2030 or whether their plan is to really build the best league in the world with the money they have and pull away the public audiences from other continents in the world. But that would need tremendous resources over a long period of time and for now it is not clear if all their activities serve a plan that goes beyond the World Cup.

The people who run it all obviously don't count the money, so they don't spare huge sums of money, I don't think it's a problem for them. As for the World Cup bid in 2030 I think it is unrelated, look at Qatar, did they do that? No, but the tournament turned out amazing. They used a different strategy, doing everything for tourists, didn't develop their league, it resulted in them spending several times more money to develop the whole thing, but made very little money from it. Let's see where Saudi Arabia's strategy leads. At this point there is essentially nothing to compare it with

It is not about making money out of hosting a tournament. It is about gaining influence in the social and political world, and through that also gain influence in the economic world. They don't care whether their hotels are booked. They care about their reputation. You can't compare Qatar with Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is 200 times as big as Qatar and from that point of view it does at least make sense to have some infrastructure investment as not everything will have to be removed because it isn't needed. In Qatar almost nothing of what they have built was needed afterwards. Saudi Arabia probably has serious long term plans to build a league and to further domesticate the sport in their country. Qatar was a one time event. I don't know whether the tournament in Qatar actually was amazing. What I know is that people felt less comfortable moving freely in public because even if it seemed as if they weren't threatened, there is still this awkward feeling as a guest that you could do something wrong you don't even know about and end up in jail. I am not talking about the obvious things like taking drugs, that is the same in the USA or Mexico or Canada. But in general, it is different.

Whatever the plan is but I think the SPL plans long term and will keep tuning up their league with players from Europe.