Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

[Slow death]

It's just a friendly game and a warm up for the next season. Five goals is not a good score but the most important thing is to learn lessons from the game. Al Nassr coach should be able to analyse the game and make the needed changes. The first half was fine with a goalless scoreline but Ronaldo missed a clear chance to put the Saudi side ahead. But it's all good.

 

clearly this was not just a friendly game, before this game ronaldo said he would not play in europe again because the quality of europe games had become low, so i believe rafael benitez wanted to show ronaldo the stark difference between the leagues in europe with the saudi arabia league, celta de vigo is not a stronger team in la liga and we all know that, but it seems to me that ronaldo is very proud that instead of being humble and accepting that the quality of european soccer is not decreased, on the contrary it has always been increasing and that the problem is not in the quality of European soccer

but yes, the problem is with him due to his advanced age and his high salary that he doesn't want to give up he was forced to have to go and play in a very low quality league, the native players of saudi arabia don't even know how to make good shots, so it was visible how Celta de Vigo won very easily, today we will have Al Nassr's game against benfica, if benfica plays with at least 50% of their main players I believe they can score 7 goals in that game, it would be a very easy victory from benfica, the only team that I see Al Nassr winning in this calendar of friendlies would be PSG who always have problems in defense and are without messi

[Sithara007]

I was surprised with the statement made by Ronaldo, after Al Nassr suffered a heavy loss to RC Celta de Vigo. He opined that European leagues are rapidly losing quality. His team lost to a club that finished at the 13th place in La Liga last season, and that too by a margin of 0-5. It was a friendly match and therefore we should not read too much between the lines. Even then, the occasion was not right for these sort of statements. It looks like Cristiano Ronaldo still holds a grudge towards European leagues, after he was treated harshly at Manchester United.

[asriloni]

I was surprised with the statement made by Ronaldo, after Al Nassr suffered a heavy loss to RC Celta de Vigo. He opined that European leagues are rapidly losing quality. His team lost to a club that finished at the 13th place in La Liga last season, and that too by a margin of 0-5. It was a friendly match and therefore we should not read too much between the lines. Even then, the occasion was not right for these sort of statements. It looks like Cristiano Ronaldo still holds a grudge towards European leagues, after he was treated harshly at Manchester United.

as long as the performance in the saudi pro league will not be as bad as the result against celta vigo and i can accept it. The different thing when nassr gonna face the bad result same like when it was facing celta vigo in the friendly match. that's gonna be a very bad thing for al nassr. The club will evaluate to prevent a similar outcome in the opening match against Ettifaq coached by Gerrard. Ettifaq was also trying to buy european players as many as possible to strengthen the club right now.
Ronaldo feels so badly with the result against celta vigo. Ronaldo is still being obsessed to compete with messi even he has been playing in the different league.

[sokani]

Al Nassr is banned from signing anymore European players, due to a dispute with Leicester (regarding the transfer fee for Ahmed Musa). They were planning to bring Hakim Ziyech and Domenico Berardi to Saudi Arabia.

I think the debt has been cleared and the issue has been resolved because according to Fabrizio Romano, Al Nassr has just completed the signing of Alex Telles from Manchester United for £4M plus add-ons.

Anyway, I also found a picture on twitter which is quite interesting and it is the transfer of European players so far to saudi league clubs except for Cristiano Ronaldo who first joined last winter.

It is called the Ronaldo effect. Following the signing of C.Ronaldo to the Saudi Arabian Pro league, the league is beginning to experience an influx of europe talents and it's gaining a lot of traction. This season about 14 players from europe have been signed so far in the SAPL and this figure will definitely increases before the transfer window closes.

[borovichok]

Waking up and comprehending FabrizioRomano's Twitter page, I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed Riyad Mahrez join Al Ahli. As both parties exchanged documents, the transaction had been completed. Manchester City will recieved €35 million plus add-ons for the Algerian, who has signed a contract with Al Ahli until June 2027. It's a great moment to see several key frontline players leave the Etihad Stadium for Saudi clubs. This is the two favorite players that have exited the club, IIkay Gundogan and Riyad Mahrez,  I hope for the possible best from then in their new prospective clubs.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

That's right, it didn't take a year for the Saudi league to succeed in bringing in these European players and of course the magnet that attracted them to join the Saudi league team was the abundant salary each season. We can see in the picture that one person is sitting waiting for his friends to join, namely Cristiano Ronaldo and unexpectedly, after 6 months, other European players have started to follow in his footsteps to be able to make a lot of money in the Saudi league.

Clubs in Saudi Professional League are richer than clubs in Chinese Super League and they have smarter strategies as well. They don't repeat what Chinese Super League clubs did by signing with average or just a little bit good like star players from Europe. They decided to sign with a super star like Cristiano Ronaldo to make noise and make their league more attractive for European star players. They picked a good time to excecute their plans after a World Cup 2022 in Qatar so that Middle East already got attention from European football fans.

The transfer of Cristiano helped the league to get more television rights in Europe and the whole league is more exciting, more attractive for people in Europe.

Well, we are still waiting for more European players to come to this league before the summer closes.

Anyway, I also found a picture on twitter which is quite interesting and it is the transfer of European players so far to saudi league clubs except for Cristiano Ronaldo who first joined last winter.

Other star players followed Ronaldo to join Saudi Professional League and they succeed to have Karim Benzema but failed to have Lionel Messi. I believe they will have more legendary players from Europe and maintain this like five more years will help to increase their league quality a lot.

[Strongkored]

I was surprised with the statement made by Ronaldo, after Al Nassr suffered a heavy loss to RC Celta de Vigo. He opined that European leagues are rapidly losing quality. His team lost to a club that finished at the 13th place in La Liga last season, and that too by a margin of 0-5. It was a friendly match and therefore we should not read too much between the lines. Even then, the occasion was not right for these sort of statements. It looks like Cristiano Ronaldo still holds a grudge towards European leagues, after he was treated harshly at Manchester United.

Currently, he is not only an Al Nassr player but also a spokesperson for the Saudi Pro League, although not officially, continues to make controversial statements because of course, it will bring a lot of attention to the league in which he is currently playing so that it is seen that the Saudi Pro League is a well-known league even though its popularity is not due to attractive competition but more to media coverage.
Jordan Henderson is confirmed to be going to Al Ettifaq after Liverpool and Al Ettifaq reached an agreement, the presence of Steven Gerrard at the club who will become manager influences his decision, and Al Ettifaq becomes a club besides Ittihad FC, Al Nassr, Al Ahli and Al Hilal which are under the same ownership, namely the Public Investment Fund which is also quite intensive to buy players from the European league where these players are still very active playing and performing quite well, Riyad Mahrez to Al Ahli and seems to have closed speculation for Sadio Mane to the same club with Mahrez.

[X-ray]

Liverpool Football Club has reached a preliminary agreement to sell their esteemed captain, Jordan Henderson, to Saudi Arabian club Al-Ettifaq. The deal, which amounts to £12 million with potential additional payments, marks a significant shift for Henderson, who has been an integral part of Liverpool's success for over a decade.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1092323-farewell-to-anfield-hendersons-departure-to-saudi-club-al-ettihadconfirmed

Finally, henderson's transfer process will almost come to its end. So many people were posting how he has been contributing a lot to the liverpool. Another great player from liverpool was joining in the saudi club after firmino has become the first liverpool player who joined in al ahli.
The next must be fabinho. I dunno his progress. I may try to check it later. We are still a long way to go till the end of summer transfer season. I expect there will be so many players to join in saudi pro league.

More superstars, more viewers will be watching this league next season. Even some unpopular club in saudi pro league was also starting to approach some european players.
This league gonna be crazy next years. I wonder how much money will able to be spend by saudi club till the end of summer.
Money is nothing for saudi club.

[Lordhermes]

Liverpool Football Club has reached a preliminary agreement to sell their esteemed captain, Jordan Henderson, to Saudi Arabian club Al-Ettifaq. The deal, which amounts to £12 million with potential additional payments, marks a significant shift for Henderson, who has been an integral part of Liverpool's success for over a decade.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1092323-farewell-to-anfield-hendersons-departure-to-saudi-club-al-ettihadconfirmed

Finally, henderson's transfer process will almost come to its end. So many people were posting how he has been contributing a lot to the liverpool. Another great player from liverpool was joining in the saudi club after firmino has become the first liverpool player who joined in al ahli.
The next must be fabinho. I dunno his progress. I may try to check it later. We are still a long way to go till the end of summer transfer season. I expect there will be so many players to join in saudi pro league.

More superstars, more viewers will be watching this league next season. Even some unpopular club in saudi pro league was also starting to approach some european players.
This league gonna be crazy next years. I wonder how much money will able to be spend by saudi club till the end of summer.
Money is nothing for saudi club.

I new this deal will work, Henderson can not resist such offer, beside he will be working under his former teammate Gerrard steven, this is a good news to the Saudi Arabia league, more players are coming in so fast, and the leageu is as popular now than some leagues. Next season, will be interesting to watch the league.

Yesterday, Telles Alex agreed a deal from Manchester united to Alnassr club. The league is growing so fast.

[marcous]

Waking up and comprehending FabrizioRomano's Twitter page, I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed Riyad Mahrez join Al Ahli. As both parties exchanged documents, the transaction had been completed. Manchester City will recieved €35 million plus add-ons for the Algerian, who has signed a contract with Al Ahli until June 2027. It's a great moment to see several key frontline players leave the Etihad Stadium for Saudi clubs. This is the two favorite players that have exited the club, IIkay Gundogan and Riyad Mahrez,  I hope for the possible best from then in their new prospective clubs.

Wow this is really surprising, I think Mahrez will stay at least one or two more seasons at Man City. But after reading news from multiple sources that it is true he will be going to Al Expert next season, City are now targeting RB Leipzig midfielder Dani Olmo. Al Ahli will have a lethal attack line up with two star players Fermino and Mahrez, it will be interesting to watch their adventures in the SPL.

It looks like the SPL clubs will not stop recruiting until the transfer window closes. The Cristiano Ronaldo effect is really working well in accordance with the wishes and expectations, let's wait for who will come back to the SPL.

[UchihaSarada]

I new this deal will work, Henderson can not resist such offer, beside he will be working under his former teammate Gerrard steven, this is a good news to the Saudi Arabia league, more players are coming in so fast, and the leageu is as popular now than some leagues. Next season, will be interesting to watch the league.

Henderson is old enough and even he is a captain of Liverpool, his position will be taken over by younger players. Two big titles with one Premier League and one Champions League with Liverpool are enough for his career. He is already a legend in Anfield and he can leave Liverpool to join Saudi Professional League without many regret of unfinished things there. He completed dream of many Liverpool fans and many generations of Liverpool players including Steven Gerrad.

Yesterday, Telles Alex agreed a deal from Manchester united to Alnassr club. The league is growing so fast.

Alex Telles is at a lower quality level than Henderson but he will help the league to grow in quality.

[rendravolt]

That's right, it didn't take a year for the Saudi league to succeed in bringing in these European players and of course the magnet that attracted them to join the Saudi league team was the abundant salary each season. We can see in the picture that one person is sitting waiting for his friends to join, namely Cristiano Ronaldo and unexpectedly, after 6 months, other European players have started to follow in his footsteps to be able to make a lot of money in the Saudi league.

Clubs in Saudi Professional League are richer than clubs in Chinese Super League and they have smarter strategies as well. They don't repeat what Chinese Super League clubs did by signing with average or just a little bit good like star players from Europe. They decided to sign with a super star like Cristiano Ronaldo to make noise and make their league more attractive for European star players. They picked a good time to excecute their plans after a World Cup 2022 in Qatar so that Middle East already got attention from European football fans.

The transfer of Cristiano helped the league to get more television rights in Europe and the whole league is more exciting, more attractive for people in Europe.

Well, we are still waiting for more European players to come to this league before the summer closes.

Anyway, I also found a picture on twitter which is quite interesting and it is the transfer of European players so far to saudi league clubs except for Cristiano Ronaldo who first joined last winter.

Other star players followed Ronaldo to join Saudi Professional League and they succeed to have Karim Benzema but failed to have Lionel Messi. I believe they will have more legendary players from Europe and maintain this like five more years will help to increase their league quality a lot.

For that matter it is clear that the Saudi league is superior to the Chinese league and maybe in the past the Chinese league would not be able to bring in players like this. On the other hand, as far as I can remember, the one who was most attached to transfers to the Chinese league was a player from Chelsea, namely Oscar, who joined the Chinese league team and that had surprised people. Even though he was in his prime and he chose to join the Chinese league to get an abundant salary. But indeed, all this did not last long because Europe's top leagues still have the magic of the two GOATs, namely Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, so that everyone prefers to watch all the matches of the young talents within the scope of these two players.

A landslide victory for the Saudi league was to succeed in signing Cristiano Ronaldo and at the same time he could no longer compete in Europe, so even a big offer would be very tempting for Cristiano Ronaldo. But his influence and exposure on the pitch has always been a breath of fresh air for other players to follow in his footsteps. But it's a shame we can't see the rivalry of the two GOATs in one league competition and Lionel Messi prefers to enjoy his old age in MLS. In my opinion, with no two GOATs in one competition, they can still prove their competition to influence other European players to join the league they currently occupy.

[Doell]

Waking up and comprehending FabrizioRomano's Twitter page, I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed Riyad Mahrez join Al Ahli. As both parties exchanged documents, the transaction had been completed. Manchester City will recieved €35 million plus add-ons for the Algerian, who has signed a contract with Al Ahli until June 2027. It's a great moment to see several key frontline players leave the Etihad Stadium for Saudi clubs. This is the two favorite players that have exited the club, IIkay Gundogan and Riyad Mahrez,  I hope for the possible best from then in their new prospective clubs.

Wow this is really surprising, I think Mahrez will stay at least one or two more seasons at Man City. But after reading news from multiple sources that it is true he will be going to Al Expert next season, City are now targeting RB Leipzig midfielder Dani Olmo. Al Ahli will have a lethal attack line up with two star players Fermino and Mahrez, it will be interesting to watch their adventures in the SPL.

It looks like the SPL clubs will not stop recruiting until the transfer window closes. The Cristiano Ronaldo effect is really working well in accordance with the wishes and expectations, let's wait for who will come back to the SPL.

Previously there were rumors about Mahrez had agreed when Al Ahli came to him with an offer, because reportedly he would be paid three times the salary he received at Manchester City. At that his age which is not too young, his decision is quite good, considering that he has also won many achievements in Europa. Al Ahli attack line is actually not too bad, but when they already have two Europa star players, yes indeed there is a possibility that their attack line will be lethality.

[makishart]

Fabinho is very close to joining arabian club. I saw that there was good news about the development of his transfer. Al ittihad has been contacting him intensively and tries to approach him to move to the al ittihad as soon as possible. I think that the final deal between him and al ittihad gonna be reached very soon. It has been rumored that if fabinho already agreed with al ittihad. Liverpool was feeling so badly caused by some of its important players were deciding to leave from the club and go to the saudi club.

Al hilla's attempt to recruit luis diaz was blocked by Liverpool, as Klopp views him as critical for this season. I think that it's impossible to get diaz from liverpool. Al hilal shall move to another club to replace him as the next target by al hilal.

[Plaguedeath]

Sometime I feel like what's looks like football in the future, many good players are now join Saudi Professional League when their main reason is only for money. It's fair enough every athlete want to make huge amount money, but I think we will not feel the beautiful of football match when the good players are divided to two side, one is focus on his career by joining top league e.g. Premier League, while the another one join Saudi Professional league.

[Leviathan.007]

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That's right, it didn't take a year for the Saudi league to succeed in bringing in these European players and of course the magnet that attracted them to join the Saudi league team was the abundant salary each season. We can see in the picture that one person is sitting waiting for his friends to join, namely Cristiano Ronaldo and unexpectedly, after 6 months, other European players have started to follow in his footsteps to be able to make a lot of money in the Saudi league. Well, we are still waiting for more European players to come to this league before the summer closes.

Anyway, I also found a picture on twitter which is quite interesting and it is the transfer of European players so far to saudi league clubs except for Cristiano Ronaldo who first joined last winter.

In fact, everyone likes to work where he can earn more money and I think the players in top European teams are the same because they try to earn more and play in the country where they can make a better file for their family.
Years ago, joining the Arabian teams was not a good thing for these players but after they saw a famous player like Ronaldo join Saudi League, they accept the offers easier now.

[Oluwa-btc]

Another offer from the Saudi team and this time they want to hire Malcom, he is currently playing for Zenit but Malcom was playing in Barcelona before.
Al Hilal wants to hire this Brazilian forward for the next season.
However, Malcom's contract ends in 2027 and Al Hilal needs to buy this player from Zenit. 

All of these players are really moving down the Saudi Arabian League for the money. I remember Malcolm very well, he was a great player before joining FC Barcelona but flopped big time at Barcelona. Infact the Management of Barcelona spent unwisely on players like Coutinho, Malcolm and Antonio Griezmann. Godspeed with him in this new phase.

I was surprised with the statement made by Ronaldo, after Al Nassr suffered a heavy loss to RC Celta de Vigo. He opined that European leagues are rapidly losing quality. His team lost to a club that finished at the 13th place in La Liga last season, and that too by a margin of 0-5. It was a friendly match and therefore we should not read too much between the lines. Even then, the occasion was not right for these sort of statements. It looks like Cristiano Ronaldo still holds a grudge towards European leagues, after he was treated harshly at Manchester United.

For once I'm not in support of what Cristiano Ronaldo has got to say. It does seems so, he's still got heavy heart for Europeans. Before for now he's said he'll end his career with Sporting Lisbon, now he's making decisions with anger and hate. Yeah, Manchester United did him dirty I stand by him on that, but it's not just sharp to say he opened the way to the Saudi Arabian League. It's obviously for the money and nothing else. He's currently Guinness Book of Record highest paid Athlete in the World.

[Polkeins]

Another offer from the Saudi team and this time they want to hire Malcom, he is currently playing for Zenit but Malcom was playing in Barcelona before.
Al Hilal wants to hire this Brazilian forward for the next season.
However, Malcom's contract ends in 2027 and Al Hilal needs to buy this player from Zenit. 

Malcom is a great player, one of the best foreigners in Zenit's squad. I think the Saudis have good relations with Gazprom and the transfer amount of 50 million euros will not be a problem for them, but for Zenit it will be a big loss.

In the last 2 years, together with Claudinie and Alberto was one of the leaders of the club, but in the Russian championship he has achieved everything and it is clear that he has no special prospects further in Russia.
If the transfer takes place, it will be the 2nd most expensive transfer in history, only Hulk was sold to China.

[hahay]

Sometime I feel like what's looks like football in the future, many good players are now join Saudi Professional League when their main reason is only for money. It's fair enough every athlete want to make huge amount money, but I think we will not feel the beautiful of football match when the good players are divided to two side, one is focus on his career by joining top league e.g. Premier League, while the another one join Saudi Professional league.

Basically, I believe it is very unlikely that young players who have great potential will be willing to play outside of the big European leagues and clubs. So yes, because the star players who are currently playing outside Europe, basically they have also previously carved out a great career in Europe. Therefore, at this moment like Ronaldo for example, whose age is no longer prime, then playing at a club here in the SPL that pays dearly seems to be a good final destination. After all, they are also still under FIFA rules, so as long as they do not break the rules then of course they will also be fine. Therefore, I think there nothing to worry about, because there will be a time for us to have new idols and it's no longer just about Ronaldo and Messi.

[JeffBrad12]

Sometime I feel like what's looks like football in the future, many good players are now join Saudi Professional League when their main reason is only for money.

'for money'? i can't even agree with this. Money has become the main target why someone wanna try to become a professional football. Remember the story from kante or even ronaldo. They were coming from poor family. They can change their lives through getting big salary from being a professional football. There was also another target owned by the player but i think that mostly of players were putting money as everything right now. The popularity will follow then. So many players have various target in the football but all of them will not wanna play without getting paid.
That being said if money was at the top of their target by turning into the professional football.

It's fair enough every athlete want to make huge amount money, but I think we will not feel the beautiful of football match when the good players are divided to two side, one is focus on his career by joining top league e.g. Premier League, while the another one join Saudi Professional league.

The main target for a team played football was for winning the trophy and got a good reward from their efford. It is my belief that the club doesn't need to play aesthetically pleasing football. Winning trophy and getting reward is much more valuable compared with playing beautiful football.