Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

[indah rezqi]

The last transfer of the clubs are with many stars. There are names like Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United to Al-Nassr, Karim Benzema from Real Madrid to Al-Ittihad, Ruben Neves from Wolverhampton Wanderers to Al-Hilal, Kalidou Koulibaly from Chelsea to Al-Hilal, N’Golo Kante from Chelsea to Al-Ittihad, Edouard Mendy from Chelsea to Al-Ahli, Jota from Celtic Glasgow to Al Ittihad and Marcelo Brozovic from Inter Milan to Al-Nassr. And there are many others to come. I thought there would be some surprising players going to America this year, but the move to Saudi Arabia.

From the coach there is the name Steven Gerrard who has just signed a two-year contract with one of the Saudi Arabian League clubs Al Ettifaq. Gerrard became one of the famous coaches who moved to the Saudi Arabian League in this transfer market. Even though he is not as good as playing, his experience when training Rangger and Aston Villa is expected to provide a new style there. I think the Saudi Arabian League clubs are on the right track to invest in football. Building a team is not enough just to bring in top and quality players, but coaches also play a very important role. In the long run the presence of quality players and coaches and star status will make the Saudi Arabian League more competitive.

Although for today the players they have brought in are mostly old players with star status, but this can at least be a good start for Saudi Arabia's long-term football. With the club's stable financial condition and full support from the state, these clubs can easily build the squad they want.

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[Frankolala]

The Saudi Arabian league has become a big league after Ronaldo went there. Then some European stars also move to, of course, it will be an advantage for sponsors to sell their products. Of course being a sponsor is a big advantage, maybe it will be a new place for other sports producers to enter into sponsorship. Currently only Ittihad wears Nike sponsorship. Puma and Adidas already exist while others seem to wear local jerseys.

I think Ronaldo Moving to the Saudi Arabian league and its impact worldwide is the perfect experiment that was successful. Now we see players moving there. Like someone rightly said and I agree to it in every sense of the world, this is simply sportswashing- using popular figures like famous sports men to improve the country's image and divert attention from other issues. If Messi had moved there we would have seen increased attention than it is getting more but they are slowly generating the attention.

First of all, the Saudis started with bribing FIFA to host the world cup 5o bring to world to Saudi- Arabia. It didn't end there after the world cup,they went further to buy Ronaldo to still keep the world attention on the country and gradually they are diverting the world to their league by also buying new players from other European clubs.

I know that it wouldn't end here because Saudi Arabia have plans to make their league popular by getting awareness with these world classic players. I will say that it is a strategy that is working for them to be part of the world most watched league in the near future. One advantage that I see will make them achieve their goal is that the country is rich and has rich investors.

[ShowOff]

First of all, the Saudis started with bribing FIFA to host the world cup 5o bring to world to Saudi- Arabia. It didn't end there after the world cup,they went further to buy Ronaldo to still keep the world attention on the country and gradually they are diverting the world to their league by also buying new players from other European clubs.

I know that it wouldn't end here because Saudi Arabia have plans to make their league popular by getting awareness with these world classic players. I will say that it is a strategy that is working for them to be part of the world most watched league in the near future. One advantage that I see will make them achieve their goal is that the country is rich and has rich investors.

Regardless of bribes or not, I think the marketing strategy carried out by the Arab Pro League for the league's visibility is far better than many leagues in Asia. They have support, of course that is because of the large amount of money from institutional or private investors. If they can maintain this trend, then I'm sure the Arab Pro League can actually be more famous than the Chinese Super League.

The Arab Pro League has started its new history and it is much better for the development and growth of the interest in sports in the country. Businesses will grow and many other things will also make the country more profitable.

[marcous]

Regardless of bribes or not, I think the marketing strategy carried out by the Arab Pro League for the league's visibility is far better than many leagues in Asia. They have support, of course that is because of the large amount of money from institutional or private investors. If they can maintain this trend, then I'm sure the Arab Pro League can actually be more famous than the Chinese Super League.

The Arab Pro League has started its new history and it is much better for the development and growth of the interest in sports in the country. Businesses will grow and many other things will also make the country more profitable.

I think the presence of Cristiano Ronaldo with Al Nassr is an opening door for all of us to know and wonder about the Arab Pro League. With his fame, Ronaldo has had a huge impact on the League. After that there were lots of former European players who went there. Most recently Steven Gerrad has officially coached the Al Ettifaq Club. As for the quality of the League, I agree with you, indeed for the Asian region, the Arab Pro League is better than the Chinese Super League according to several sources, below it are the J-League Japan, Star League Qatar and Thai League. it is possible that in the future the Arab Pro League will be more competitive and develop even better, what is impossible to build if the club has a lot of wealth.

Yes. Indirectly, the country through their football club can boost and improve their image on the world sports stage. introducing their culture and the tourism sector is an advantage and an achievement that should be appreciated.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

That should be showing you how much this league got popular and when you are wondering why they are overpaying players more than what they are worth, it is 100% definitely not about how good those players are. They do not care about that, they all get someone, that's not the point. The point is that we wrote almost 1 page per day for this league, over half a page at the very least. This is why they spent that money, to be talked about, to be known, and to be followed. They achieved it.

The league will just keep getting popular because now we have more familiar faces to write about and the media will be putting more concentration on the Saudi professional league. We have Benzema that was one of this hottest striker in the last five years and have won a Ballon D'or to his name and numerous other personal awards which means he's popular on his own level and will be bringing all his fans to the league. The league will be getting more coverage that'll introduced more fans to the league and we having more things to write about on this thread. The league next season would be fun to watch as I believe the competition will be better Ronaldo and Benzema for top goal scorer.

It' unfortunately sad about the news I'm hearing that Hakim Ziyech deals has be cancelled and that's because he failed medicals. He would had been a perfect addition to the Al Nassr squad to provide crosses to the Al Nassr players which Ronaldo would had benefitted from those crosses and adding to his goals record and give Al Nassr wins week in and out. Al Nassr should go for another winger that can deliver crosses into the 18 yard box. Chelsea don't have any of those anymore as I would had wished they continue helping offload more stress from our hand by signing our wornout players.

[BitcoinHunt3r]

First of all, the Saudis started with bribing FIFA to host the world cup 5o bring to world to Saudi- Arabia. It didn't end there after the world cup,they went further to buy Ronaldo to still keep the world attention on the country and gradually they are diverting the world to their league by also buying new players from other European clubs.

I know that it wouldn't end here because Saudi Arabia have plans to make their league popular by getting awareness with these world classic players. I will say that it is a strategy that is working for them to be part of the world most watched league in the near future. One advantage that I see will make them achieve their goal is that the country is rich and has rich investors.

If we talk about rich countries we know there are many rich countries, especially those who have oil but they did not do the same, here we can see that they have different targets. For Saudi they know that they cannot exploit oil in the long run so they have to look for other alternatives from what I saw they started from football to attract attention, Only in this way can they attract attention and can carry out their plans to become a tourist country like Dubai and others. I can't guess whether they are able to run this method at a very expensive cost through football.

[Volgastallion]

First of all, the Saudis started with bribing FIFA to host the world cup 5o bring to world to Saudi- Arabia. It didn't end there after the world cup,they went further to buy Ronaldo to still keep the world attention on the country and gradually they are diverting the world to their league by also buying new players from other European clubs.

I know that it wouldn't end here because Saudi Arabia have plans to make their league popular by getting awareness with these world classic players. I will say that it is a strategy that is working for them to be part of the world most watched league in the near future. One advantage that I see will make them achieve their goal is that the country is rich and has rich investors.

Regardless of bribes or not, I think the marketing strategy carried out by the Arab Pro League for the league's visibility is far better than many leagues in Asia. They have support, of course that is because of the large amount of money from institutional or private investors. If they can maintain this trend, then I'm sure the Arab Pro League can actually be more famous than the Chinese Super League.

The Arab Pro League has started its new history and it is much better for the development and growth of the interest in sports in the country. Businesses will grow and many other things will also make the country more profitable.

Yes but as far as i understand and i dont know why, Arabia Saudi withdraw their postulation to host the World CUp in 2030, very strange, some media said its because they think they dont have any chance against Spain-Portugal-Moroco, but i dont see that way. So the 2030 World cup its between Spain-Portugal and south american theorically.

[Sithara007]

If we talk about rich countries we know there are many rich countries, especially those who have oil but they did not do the same, here we can see that they have different targets. For Saudi they know that they cannot exploit oil in the long run so they have to look for other alternatives from what I saw they started from football to attract attention, Only in this way can they attract attention and can carry out their plans to become a tourist country like Dubai and others. I can't guess whether they are able to run this method at a very expensive cost through football.

EVs are really getting a lot of traction now, after stagnant growth for many decades. And this is being reflected in the crude oil prices. Brent crude is struggling to keep above $75 per barrel, despite repeated production cuts from Russia and the OPEC. Saudi Arabia knows that they can't rely on crude oil for the long term. And they are wisely investing their petro-dollars ever since Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud came to power. But the investment in Saudi Professional League has nothing to do with this. The Saudis want to improve the reputation of the Kingdom and make it one of the global sports hubs. That is the reason why they are splurging so much money in sports recently. It has nothing to do with preparing for a post-oil economy.

[borovichok]

I think the presence of Cristiano Ronaldo with Al Nassr is an opening door for all of us to know and wonder about the Arab Pro League. With his fame, Ronaldo has had a huge impact on the League. After that there were lots of former European players who went there. Most recently Steven Gerrad has officially coached the Al Ettifaq Club. As for the quality of the League, I agree with you, indeed for the Asian region, the Arab Pro League is better than the Chinese Super League according to several sources, below it are the J-League Japan, Star League Qatar and Thai League. it is possible that in the future the Arab Pro League will be more competitive and develop even better, what is impossible to build if the club has a lot of wealth.

Yes. Indirectly, the country through their football club can boost and improve their image on the world sports stage. introducing their culture and the tourism sector is an advantage and an achievement that should be appreciated.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the driving force behind their meteoric rise in the world of football. The Arab important individuals and businesses had everything planned out; they picked one of the world's greatest players and signed him over, focusing half of the world's attention on the player while simultaneously keeping an eye on the Saudi Arabia league. I believe Saudi Arabia will have a longer span in football; China started it but couldn't finish it; they flopped along the way; now it's Saudi Arabia's turn; they signed heavily from Europe, but whatever happens, Europe will remain the focus of attention when it comes to football.

[MinoRaiola]

From the coach there is the name Steven Gerrard who has just signed a two-year contract with one of the Saudi Arabian League clubs Al Ettifaq. Gerrard became one of the famous coaches who moved to the Saudi Arabian League in this transfer market. Even though he is not as good as playing, his experience when training Rangger and Aston Villa is expected to provide a new style there. I think the Saudi Arabian League clubs are on the right track to invest in football. Building a team is not enough just to bring in top and quality players, but coaches also play a very important role. In the long run the presence of quality players and coaches and star status will make the Saudi Arabian League more competitive.

Although for today the players they have brought in are mostly old players with star status, but this can at least be a good start for Saudi Arabia's long-term football. With the club's stable financial condition and full support from the state, these clubs can easily build the squad they want.

That is right, clubs also need good coaches. Currently, it like a last stop before the end of your career, which is also America, but both countries have become much more interesting. I think that sponsors are now looking around in Saudi Arabia and do better deals there. So a lot of money is being spent, but on the other, more is coming in.

The next star goes from Liverpool FC to Al-Ahli without a transfer fee for the club. It is Roberto Firmino. Al-Ahli SFC has brought two top stars from the Premier League and it could still follow a third person.

[Sithara007]

Has anyone heard about the offer being made to Gianluigi Buffon? He is 45-year old and currently represents one Serie B club in Italy. The offer from Saudi Professional League is reportedly worth £25 million. Buffon is currently playing his 28th season in senior club football. There is no conformation from the player, and he is reportedly analyzing his options. However, I believe that this is as good as it gets for someone like Buffon. Saudis are offering a good opportunity for him to secure his retirement package.

[bering]

Has anyone heard about the offer being made to Gianluigi Buffon? He is 45-year old and currently represents one Serie B club in Italy. The offer from Saudi Professional League is reportedly worth £25 million. Buffon is currently playing his 28th season in senior club football. There is no conformation from the player, and he is reportedly analyzing his options. However, I believe that this is as good as it gets for someone like Buffon. Saudis are offering a good opportunity for him to secure his retirement package.

Buffon has a contract with Parma until 2024 and he was thinking to retired after his contract expired and indeed it is confirmed there was an offer from Arabian team but there is still no mention of which team is interested in him and maybe 25 millions salary per year may lead Buffon to postpone his retirement plans because at the end of career i am sure there is no team in Europe would dare to pay a 45 year old player such a fantastic amount so this is big opportunity for Buffon to accept that offer because this offer will not came twice but for those who interested to him i think that is not wise decision because we all know Buffon is already old and he is past his prime and i am sure his ability and reflexes have decreased moreover Buffon was quite often to gets injured so i think gets Buffon is very risky and they should be find other goalkeeper who is much younger than him

[Strongkored]

Buffon has a contract with Parma until 2024 and he was thinking to retired after his contract expired and indeed it is confirmed there was an offer from Arabian team but there is still no mention of which team is interested in him and maybe 25 millions salary per year may lead Buffon to postpone his retirement plans because at the end of career i am sure there is no team in Europe would dare to pay a 45 year old player such a fantastic amount so this is big opportunity for Buffon to accept that offer because this offer will not came twice but for those who interested to him i think that is not wise decision because we all know Buffon is already old and he is past his prime and i am sure his ability and reflexes have decreased moreover Buffon was quite often to gets injured so i think gets Buffon is very risky and they should be find other goalkeeper who is much younger than him

The club that offered Buffon a move has not yet been announced, but that is a sizeable price for an old player and that value for a 2-season contract, meaning that Buffon will be over 47 years old when he completes his contract with that club.
Buffon is reportedly in no rush to decide whether to accept him or stay in Italy and retire at his current club Parma, yeah he was injured but recovered and last season was able to return to playing quite a lot for Parma, the question will be, will he be the main goalkeeper at the Arab club? although the competition in Arab and the number of matches in one season is not as much as in Europe but his old age might prevent him from playing as a main player.
The Arab club can get a younger goalkeeper with the money offered.

[X-ray]

Has anyone heard about the offer being made to Gianluigi Buffon? He is 45-year old and currently represents one Serie B club in Italy. The offer from Saudi Professional League is reportedly worth £25 million. Buffon is currently playing his 28th season in senior club football. There is no conformation from the player, and he is reportedly analyzing his options. However, I believe that this is as good as it gets for someone like Buffon. Saudis are offering a good opportunity for him to secure his retirement package.

Buffon confuses regarding it. He wants retire from professional football while at the same time he was getting a very good offer from saudi club. Buffon is very old now to play as a goal keeper but since he is still having spirit to play and i think it's better for him to accept.
It's caused by the offer from saudi will not come again for twice. Buffon shall have accept it if he cares more about getting money on his age but if he will care to the his health and he must have retired from his professional football career.
In my opinion if the pressure from playing in SPL is far bigger compared with serie b. it's caused by SPL had got so many great players to join in various clubs.
It will add huge pressure for buffon. He needs to cosnider it as the main consideration.

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The club that offered Buffon a move has not yet been announced, but that is a sizeable price for an old player and that value for a 2-season contract, meaning that Buffon will be over 47 years old when he completes his contract with that club.
Buffon is reportedly in no rush to decide whether to accept him or stay in Italy and retire at his current club Parma, yeah he was injured but recovered and last season was able to return to playing quite a lot for Parma, the question will be, will he be the main goalkeeper at the Arab club? although the competition in Arab and the number of matches in one season is not as much as in Europe but his old age might prevent him from playing as a main player.
The Arab club can get a younger goalkeeper with the money offered.

Is this not too much for an Arab club to want to sign a player who is old and no longer productive, are there no goalkeepers younger than Buffon? I think 25 million is an unreasonable price for a 45-year-old player, I know the Arab team is looking for popularity not the performance they want.

Of course for Buffon this is a good offer at this age, but I think if the Arab team did make an official offer then Buffon would most likely not reject it and retire there, but then again I think the purchase of Buffon would not be so good for the Arab team.

I think with his old age he will have a lot of problems with injuries.
New news from the media that Al Ahli wants Sadio Mane to reunite with Robert Firmino, will these two players reunite in the Saudi Professional League? At Bayern Munich, Sadio Mane was not very productive and often had injury problems.
Source: https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1676498144765280257

[Queentoshi]

then again I think the purchase of Buffon would not be so good for the Arab team.
I think with his old age he will have a lot of problems with injuries.

There are other younger goalkeepers that Saudi teams can bring, Gianluigi Buffon is 45 years old and will not be able to jump around and be as good as he was. if they are offering to buy him, it is more for marketing since he is one of the greatest goalkeepers in football history.

New news from the media that Al Ahli wants Sadio Mane to reunite with Robert Firmino, will these two players reunite in the Saudi Professional League? At Bayern Munich, Sadio Mane was not very productive and often had injury problems.

Sadio Mane is very involved in developing his community, that is in the country he is from. He supports many families and have built many infrastructures. A move to Saudi Arabia will be very good for him as the money he will be offered will be bigger than that any other club in any other league will offer him, and he will be able to do more for his community and support more families. It is very possible that he will accept it.

[shogun47]

Has anyone heard about the offer being made to Gianluigi Buffon? He is 45-year old and currently represents one Serie B club in Italy. The offer from Saudi Professional League is reportedly worth £25 million. Buffon is currently playing his 28th season in senior club football. There is no conformation from the player, and he is reportedly analyzing his options. However, I believe that this is as good as it gets for someone like Buffon. Saudis are offering a good opportunity for him to secure his retirement package.

wow, this is crazy af! The guy is invulnerable and immortal as it seems...

The amount is still tempting but I wonder whether Buffon is at a point where he says it is enough for now.

At the same time this shows that the SPL wants charismatic players or players with a huge following and they don't care about money at all. Signing a 45 year old is not because he is better than all other 25 years old players It is because they know he is popular among fans and that would improve the reputation of the SPL further.

[rendravolt]

Has anyone heard about the offer being made to Gianluigi Buffon? He is 45-year old and currently represents one Serie B club in Italy. The offer from Saudi Professional League is reportedly worth £25 million. Buffon is currently playing his 28th season in senior club football. There is no conformation from the player, and he is reportedly analyzing his options. However, I believe that this is as good as it gets for someone like Buffon. Saudis are offering a good opportunity for him to secure his retirement package.

This is the first time I'm hearing about it and it seems that the Saudi league team is also very interested in getting the 45-year-old Buffon. Maybe the thoughts for the Saudi league team remain the same, namely to seek popularity from European players and it can be said that Buffon has been a living legend for many years in Europe.

The offer given by the Saudi league team is also considered very large for an old goalkeeper and I think the salary that Buffon receives is likely to be greater than the amount offered. Well, I think there's nothing wrong with Buffon accepting this offer because even in Italy he plays for a Serie B team and if he goes to the Saudi league of course he will be able to play more relaxed without any burden.

[beerlover]

Top players need top managers to excel. See how well the Norwegian footballer Erling Haaland excelled under the management of Pep Guardiola. Steve Gerrard does not exactly fit the profile of top manager, he refused the deal before to move to Saudi Arabia, but since he has been without a job for a while, I am sure he has been forced to reconsider, also joined that the league is getting attention now more than last three months since they started heavily bringing other professional footballers to the league asides Ronaldo. He has some experience in English football as a player and coach in Aston Villa, and that can be of benefit to the improvement of the game of Al Ettifaq in the Saudi Professional League.

Saudis are splashing money like never before. This is the difference between them and the other Arabs. Qatar Sports Investments invested money in foreign leagues and clubs such as Paris Saint-Germain. The Saudis on the other hand are trying to strengthen the local league by spending money to acquire players and coaching staff. And the results are there for everyone to see. Qatar failed to win a single match during last year's world cup, and the Saudi Professional League is about to become one of the top football leagues globally.

Does that make more possible sense or profit though? What Qatar and Saudis are trying to do basically is to make sure they have a source of income after oil ends, one day oil will end and that means they are not going to be as rich as they are right now.

This is why it's quite important to realize that they are going to need some other income. Having a club like PSG to grow big and when oil ends they have something that worths maybe tens of billions of dollars is a good investment, the moment these big names leaves however the Saudi league will not worth anything at all. They are not making a profit now, and they will never make a profit, they will need to pay a lot to get these players all the time, and that means in the future they can't make a profit.

[Juggy777]

Has anyone heard about the offer being made to Gianluigi Buffon? He is 45-year old and currently represents one Serie B club in Italy. The offer from Saudi Professional League is reportedly worth £25 million. Buffon is currently playing his 28th season in senior club football. There is no conformation from the player, and he is reportedly analyzing his options. However, I believe that this is as good as it gets for someone like Buffon. Saudis are offering a good opportunity for him to secure his retirement package.

This is the first time I'm hearing about it and it seems that the Saudi league team is also very interested in getting the 45-year-old Buffon. Maybe the thoughts for the Saudi league team remain the same, namely to seek popularity from European players and it can be said that Buffon has been a living legend for many years in Europe.

The offer given by the Saudi league team is also considered very large for an old goalkeeper and I think the salary that Buffon receives is likely to be greater than the amount offered. Well, I think there's nothing wrong with Buffon accepting this offer because even in Italy he plays for a Serie B team and if he goes to the Saudi league of course he will be able to play more relaxed without any burden.

@rendravolt this is an insane offer for a keeper of his age and I understand that he’s a legend but yet they’re overpaying by a huge margin and he’s bound to accept this offer. Furthermore SPL are attracting the top player’s and as I have said that in coming year’s European league’s will struggle to get top player’s because most player’s will choose to play in SPL and earn more money.