Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

I have consistently anticipated Mohamed Salah's potential move to the Arab league, as it appears that Al Ittihad is quite keen on acquiring this Muslim player. We are aware that Salah practices the Islamic faith, and my hope is that by joining the Saudi Pro League, he can find a more serene playing environment and garner appreciation from the Muslim community in the Arab world.

They will return to knock Liverpool doors in a next transfer season. When Salah is older, one or two more years, their chance will become bigger. In addition, they can have belief that if they give Liverpool enough time to use money from Salah transfer to buy other players as replacement for Salah and as improvements for other positions in their squad, Liverpool will let Salah go.

With his religion, Salah will not have issue to live and play in Saudi Arabia. He will adapt to the nation very well like Karim Benzema and feel more comfortable than other players from Europe who are not Muslims.

[Doell]

The opening match this week will pit Al-Akhdoud against Al-Ittihad and this will be the first meeting between the two. I don't remember which team got promotion to the Saudi league this season apart from Al-Ahli and if Al-Akhdoud is the promoted team this season then they will face a tough challenge because they have to face the defending champions of the Saudi league last season. Currently Al-Akhdoud is in 13th position with 4 points from 5 matches and Al-Ittihad is in 3rd position which is only 1 point behind Al-Hilal. Of course Benzema and his friends have to get full points this time to unseat Al-Hilal and I think this will be an easy match. If you look at the odds, Al-Ittihad is very favored to win with odds @1.16, but I don't hesitate to bet with a handicap (-1.5) so I can get better odds @1.54.

Al-Okhdood Club does not have a superstar player like Ittihad, it should be an easy win for Ittihad, with many scores possible there Sir. Also Ittihad no doubt can scored a lot considering the attackers of this team are very hungry, they will get it I guess maybe they will make a party goal in that match. By the way, I already bet in this match on over 1.75 goals at half time. The odds are very tempting although too risky, because there are no guarantees anyway.

[bitgolden]

I am stilll convinced that the difference players like Ronaldo or Benzema are making is not that big. People tend to forget that these guys are old already and of course they can contribute to the game and make the team a bit better, but it is not like Ronaldo goes to a club and then out of a sudden that club never loses a game again. It is still the team and not a one man show.

This is incredibly true and unfortunately not really realized all that much. Those guys are amazing and they had a phenomenal career and they definitely deserve all the praise they get, but that doesn't mean that we are going to end up with them making a big difference on this team at this age.

We have seen Ronaldo for nearly a year now, and he hasn't made all that much difference in the club, sure he scores some, but if you move all the goals he scored against bottom feeding teams and the penalties, the amount of goals he scored against the other teams in the top 5 is nothing that important, it's very low. This is why we should not expect them to suddenly get great and win the title all because they got one player.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

We have seen Ronaldo for nearly a year now, and he hasn't made all that much difference in the club, sure he scores some, but if you move all the goals he scored against bottom feeding teams and the penalties, the amount of goals he scored against the other teams in the top 5 is nothing that important, it's very low. This is why we should not expect them to suddenly get great and win the title all because they got one player.

Haaland didn't score in important games for last season but he was still able to win the treble with Manchester city because of other players contributions. We can't removed the penalty that Ronaldo scored because scoring penalty isn't an easy thing to do. If it was easy then the last player that Ronaldo gave the penalties to play in the last Al Nassr game should have scored the penalty because it is easy. We shouldn't be downgrading penalty or the hattrick Ronaldo is scoring against smaller teams. He is no longer in his prime to be scoring all the crazy goals he was scoring while he was still playing in Europe. Lets not also forget that the teammates that he's playing with also matter and at Al Nassr he's playing with one of the worst set of footballers he has ever played with

Yes, one way for the Saudi Pro League to become more popular is to consistently recruit great and famous players who previously played in Europe. Because if they can be consistent in this way, then of course the Saudi Pro League will remain popular even if Ronaldo is no longer there.

Getting famous players might be a waste of money because many of them won't live up to the expectations they were signed for, not everyone is Ronaldo that has a determination to always want to be the best thereby putting on incredible performance whenever he has the spotlight to do so. Saudi Professional League has to improve their league locally so they can attract players to play in the league because of its competitiveness and not just because of the high pay. If they keep going after famous players then this players will only want to use the Saudi Arabia league as a retirement ground. At the beginning they can make the league attractive with signing famous players but they shoudn't continue with this strategy for a very long time.

[Docnaster]

I am stilll convinced that the difference players like Ronaldo or Benzema are making is not that big. People tend to forget that these guys are old already and of course they can contribute to the game and make the team a bit better, but it is not like Ronaldo goes to a club and then out of a sudden that club never loses a game again. It is still the team and not a one man show.

Haha you are right, what Ronaldo and other European players have is skill, experience and mentally this combination is very necessary in the game but in terms of stamina and speed local players can still be relied on that's why Al-Taawon was able to take the place in 2nd place. We must remember that Ronaldo is currently 38 years old this is not a normal age as a professional player and there must be an expiration period  but when it comes to Neymar, he still has it all his age still allows him to compete.

There is obviously what you are missing and I think I will be able to explain it to you. If you call the local guys who are not experienced but young to the Champions League. They will not even be able to draw any matches h. They will lose all the matches. But if you call the old guys like Ronaldo and Benzema to the Champions League, they will likely win the Champions League. It is not that these guys are so much tired, they still go to gym and they still make good runs. Then they have the experience and skills. In fact, they even cover more kilometres than the local boys. They have the zeal and enthusiasm and passion more than the rest.

[Leviathan.007]

The opening match this week will pit Al-Akhdoud against Al-Ittihad and this will be the first meeting between the two. I don't remember which team got promotion to the Saudi league this season apart from Al-Ahli and if Al-Akhdoud is the promoted team this season then they will face a tough challenge because they have to face the defending champions of the Saudi league last season. Currently Al-Akhdoud is in 13th position with 4 points from 5 matches and Al-Ittihad is in 3rd position which is only 1 point behind Al-Hilal. Of course Benzema and his friends have to get full points this time to unseat Al-Hilal and I think this will be an easy match. If you look at the odds, Al-Ittihad is very favored to win with odds @1.16, but I don't hesitate to bet with a handicap (-1.5) so I can get better odds @1.54.

I think after the money Al Ittihad sent in this summer, the fans are expecting to see him winning all the games, in fact, if we want to compare Al Ittihad with another team like Al Akhdoud, that's very clear and easy to say Al Ittihad got more chance to win the game and the rate of 1.16 is not supering for them if you check the pasty results they had in the Saudi League against other teams.
 

[rahmad2nd]

Haha you are right, what Ronaldo and other European players have is skill, experience and mentally this combination is very necessary in the game but in terms of stamina and speed local players can still be relied on that's why Al-Taawon was able to take the place in 2nd place. We must remember that Ronaldo is currently 38 years old this is not a normal age as a professional player and there must be an expiration period  but when it comes to Neymar, he still has it all his age still allows him to compete.

However, Ronaldo has proven that he can still be relied on in Al Nassr's squad. Even though he is 38 years old, he has scored 6 goals in his 4 matches. Not only that, Ronaldo has colleagues he can rely on in his squad. Apart from that, Al Nassr has Mane, who is not too old, he is 31 years old. There are also other players, Talisca, who are also productive in terms of scoring goals. and also several other top European players, which makes this team very competitive.

This competition has only been played for 5 weeks and there are still many matches left for Al Nassr and Ronaldo to shift Al Taawoun's ranking. I am quite sure, Al Nassr will play match after match with wins. After they started badly in the first 2 matches of this competition, Al Nassr started to recover and beat their opposing teams with a landslide score. Their biggest rivals were not Al Tawoun but Al Ittihad and Al Hilal.

[Litzki1990]

But this year we all know more or less about the Saudi League. Also keep track of the matches. Saudi Arabia is planning long-term. Gradually they will popularize the Saudi League.

Right now they are in the process of doing so. Their target is long-term. They wanted to make the Arabic name not only famous for Oil. They realized the oil could run out soon. In addition, the proposal to host the world cup is also a strong reason. They put themselves forward to host the 2030 World Cup if I'm not mistaken. With the arrival of star players, the hope is that they will continue to be consistent with an exciting league. In addition, there are always changes in every transfer market in every season. Evidently the Arab League is not an easy league for players from Europe.

Yes, one way for the Saudi Pro League to become more popular is to consistently recruit great and famous players who previously played in Europe. Because if they can be consistent in this way, then of course the Saudi Pro League will remain popular even if Ronaldo is no longer there. But indeed, the changes made by the Saudi Pro League are crazy, because they really throw a lot of money easily to be able to recruit famous players. So basically, in this season also the Saudi Pro League has become popular, but it seems that they are still not satisfied until here and will continue to make major developments from time to time.

Al Nasr first led the way and other clubs in the Saudi League followed suit, buying players from Europe for huge sums of money. When Cristiano Ronaldo first joined the Saudi League from Manchester United, we started to have a rough idea of the Saudi League. After Ronaldo's one season in Saudi Arabia, other clubs began to offer players from Europe, large sums of money were offered to the biggest stars in Europe, many of whom accepted offers from Saudi Arabia and joined other clubs in the Saudi League. The popularity of the Saudi League is gradually increasing. This season we have seen the Saudi League make some notable transfers with some of Europe's best stars currently in the Saudi League. The popularity of Saudi League will increase in the future.

[Westinhome]

Yes, one way for the Saudi Pro League to become more popular is to consistently recruit great and famous players who previously played in Europe. Because if they can be consistent in this way, then of course the Saudi Pro League will remain popular even if Ronaldo is no longer there. But indeed, the changes made by the Saudi Pro League are crazy, because they really throw a lot of money easily to be able to recruit famous players. So basically, in this season also the Saudi Pro League has become popular, but it seems that they are still not satisfied until here and will continue to make major developments from time to time.

The reason for the popularity of the Saudi Arabia League compared to the European League is due to the contract of all the top player was required the Euro zone including the players like Ronaldo.Since the key player was recruited,the internet towards the game was keep increase among the players and the betting people.Now after the hattrick goal by the Ronaldo every match,the Ronaldo team was the biggest pressure for the other team.Even the Ronaldo doen’t score the goal,he will do the assistance to the other forward player to score the goal.So the Ronaldo playing good role in the match and act worth for the contract.

[arimamib]

In my opinion, when Saudi Pro League clubs bring in quality players, of course there is a long-term goal for Saudi Arabia, especially Saudi Pro League football. Apart from that, it will also be a motivation for the younger generation to continue to develop and produce talented players in each club's football academy. This may be related to Saudi Arabia's goal of hosting the world cup. Apart from wanting to advance the League to make it more popular, of course this is also for profit. Now the Saudi Pro League is officially broadcast in 140 countries and revenue from broadcast rights has increased by 650%. The Saudi Pro League also sent 4 club representatives to the Asian Champions League.

The Saudi Arabian league is the best league at the Asian level currently. So with this, the big teams in the Saudi Arabian league continue to improve the quality of their game by recruiting many European stars this season. The presence of Ronaldo, Benzema and Neymar in the Saudi Arabian league has increasingly attracted many people to watch the Saudi Arabian league. Yes, the form of investment they make must have other goals such as increasing tourism and so on.

However, on the other hand, they have quite large finances which makes them stronger in competing with European teams in the transfer window. I think some players are starting to be interested in joining the Saudi Arabian league rather than other leagues because apart from getting a bigger salary, they are also treated to big bonuses in every match they play.

[Leviathan.007]

For another time Saudi teams tried to hire the famous and superstar player from Barcelona, Lewandowski.
We know Lewandowski is an important palyer for his teams and he had a perfect performance in La Liga, That's why Saudi teams sent him offers and he rejected all the offers. But that's not even surprising if we see the Saudi teams try to hire Robert Lewandowski in the next transfer window during the winter.



https://www.football-espana.net/2023/09/10/robert-lewandowski-rejected-saudi-arabia-move 

[Issa56]

We must remember that Ronaldo is currently 38 years old this is not a normal age as a professional player and there must be an expiration period

Ronaldo is already old, and I am just kind of surprised by the performance Ronaldo is putting up in the Saudi League. I am not expecting Ronaldo to perform well any longer, since he is already old, and his performance is supposed to have dropped, or should I say he is still performing well because the Saudi League is kind of less competitive, which is why it’s like he is performing well in the Saudi League. When Ronaldo was at Manchester United and he was performing poorly, I blamed his age for the poor performance, but I am just surprised that he is still playing well in the Saudi League and that he has been able to score goals since he joined the league.

[TastyChillySauce00]

For another time Saudi teams tried to hire the famous and superstar player from Barcelona, Lewandowski.
We know Lewandowski is an important palyer for his teams and he had a perfect performance in La Liga, That's why Saudi teams sent him offers and he rejected all the offers. But that's not even surprising if we see the Saudi teams try to hire Robert Lewandowski in the next transfer window during the winter.

The better thing if saudi club waits him till his age reach 40 years old. Lewandowski will never move to the another club. He is feeling comfort to stay in barcelona. Saudi club is just pushing a non sense transfer which is too good to be true.
Lewandowski has become top scorer last season and it's impossible for him to go to the saudi pro league. It's caused by he is trying to break another record in barcelona to produce more goal compared to the last season.

Lewandowski has been rejecting saudi's offer and he is unwilling to spend his life to play in the saudi pro league. Saudi club needs to find his alternative.
I doesn't even matter how hard saudi club will try to hire him but the result will always be the same.

Saudi needs to find a sense target which has high probability to be recruited by the club.

[Out of mind]

because they really throw a lot of money easily to be able to recruit famous players.

I have consistently anticipated Mohamed Salah's potential move to the Arab league, as it appears that Al Ittihad is quite keen on acquiring this Muslim player. We are aware that Salah practices the Islamic faith, and my hope is that by joining the Saudi Pro League, he can find a more serene playing environment and garner appreciation from the Muslim community in the Arab world.

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Mohamed Salah is a Muslim player, which makes him the most likely to move to the Saudi league, considering various aspects. Al Ittihad seems to offer Salah better money as well as more facilities and for the Muslim nation Salah is certainly keen to join. I think Salah will probably join Al Ittihad, he will definitely go to the Saudi leagues as a player in the Muslim world. It would be a compliment for him to join Al Ittihad as a Muslim. Muslims all over the world would want Salah to play at a Saudi club, and the Muslim star would certainly show more interest in going there.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Ronaldo is already old, and I am just kind of surprised by the performance Ronaldo is putting up in the Saudi League. I am not expecting Ronaldo to perform well any longer, since he is already old, and his performance is supposed to have dropped, or should I say he is still performing well because the Saudi League is kind of less competitive, which is why it’s like he is performing well in the Saudi League.

Ronaldo is old, very old but he still plays well and even better than many young players. He is worse than himself two or three years ago but his ambition is still high. He is still very professional with his body, training and career and he luckily avoided serious injuries through his career. At this age, any serious injury can end his career immediately and let's hope he will not get such because it's special time to enjoy a player like Ronaldo.

When Ronaldo was at Manchester United and he was performing poorly, I blamed his age for the poor performance, but I am just surprised that he is still playing well in the Saudi League and that he has been able to score goals since he joined the league.

That club is suck. They blamed their failure on Mourinho then Ronaldo. After those men leaving their club, they are still in a mess this season. No good signal that they can return to be a good candidate for Premier League title.

For another time Saudi teams tried to hire the famous and superstar player from Barcelona, Lewandowski.
We know Lewandowski is an important palyer for his teams and he had a perfect performance in La Liga, That's why Saudi teams sent him offers and he rejected all the offers. But that's not even surprising if we see the Saudi teams try to hire Robert Lewandowski in the next transfer window during the winter.



https://www.football-espana.net/2023/09/10/robert-lewandowski-rejected-saudi-arabia-move  

Lewandowski and Salah are top priorities of clubs in Saudi Arabia. After having three big star players, Ronaldo, Benzema and Neymar, they are targeting younger players like Salah. They failed in this summer but I believe they will return to Europe with other offers in next transfer. If their plan is for World Cup 2030, they will continue to spend money to improve quality of their league with hope that it will help their local players to learn from those legendary players then increasing quality and competitiveness of their national team.

[len01]

Lewandowski and Salah are top priorities of clubs in Saudi Arabia. After having three big star players, Ronaldo, Benzema and Neymar, they are targeting younger players like Salah. They failed in this summer but I believe they will return to Europe with other offers in next transfer. If their plan is for World Cup 2030, they will continue to spend money to improve quality of their league with hope that it will help their local players to learn from those legendary players then increasing quality and competitiveness of their national team.

however, if the next transfer opens, I am sure it will be very difficult for teams from the SPL to sign players like Lewandowski or Salah because these two players are still very important players for their respective teams at the moment and if there is possibility that they both leave their team, they not spent his career in Saudi Arabia and may just move to another european team.

but there is still a small chance of being able to always push to make big offer for Lewandowski because this player is almost approaching his age. If he wants to earn big money before retiring, he can accept the offer from saudi Arabian team and after that retire with the salary he has in large amounts. but still, that not a guarantee because we are just speculating.

[BitcoinHunt3r]

Lewandowski and Salah are top priorities of clubs in Saudi Arabia. After having three big star players, Ronaldo, Benzema and Neymar, they are targeting younger players like Salah. They failed in this summer but I believe they will return to Europe with other offers in next transfer. If their plan is for World Cup 2030, they will continue to spend money to improve quality of their league with hope that it will help their local players to learn from those legendary players then increasing quality and competitiveness of their national team.

Yeah the hunt for top players will continue until the next transfer window it seems their target has not been achieved we don't know how many players they want to bring in lol, based on the transfermarkt report this league has spent 840 million to bring in all the players or the equivalent of 1-3% of their asset value and they haven't stopped. By the way, why do you say Lewandowski is a young player   he is already 35 years old and in the near future maybe he will become a coach.

[Zlantann]

Lewandowski and Salah are top priorities of clubs in Saudi Arabia. After having three big star players, Ronaldo, Benzema and Neymar, they are targeting younger players like Salah. They failed in this summer but I believe they will return to Europe with other offers in next transfer. If their plan is for World Cup 2030, they will continue to spend money to improve quality of their league with hope that it will help their local players to learn from those legendary players then increasing quality and competitiveness of their national team.

When I hear that one of the reasons why Saudi Arabia is spending so much to attract players and improve its league is for the World Cup in 2030, I wonder if it is necessary. It might be necessary in terms of building their national team and infrastructures for the World Cup but I don't think it is needed for them to win the hosting rights. Many of the countries that have hosted the World Cup didn't have to build a world-class league to win the bid. An example is Qatar which has one of the lowly rated leagues in the world but they ended up playing the game legally and illegally to win the host right. Saudi Arabia should know that FIFA is governed by some money mongers and most of the delegates that will vote in the process are corrupt which is very shameful.  I also think that if all this spending and hype is just to win a World Cup hosting, then it isn't worth it. Saudi Professional League should be built to make it compete favorably with top European leagues for a long time.

[rendravolt]

We must remember that Ronaldo is currently 38 years old this is not a normal age as a professional player and there must be an expiration period

Ronaldo is already old, and I am just kind of surprised by the performance Ronaldo is putting up in the Saudi League. I am not expecting Ronaldo to perform well any longer, since he is already old, and his performance is supposed to have dropped, or should I say he is still performing well because the Saudi League is kind of less competitive, which is why it’s like he is performing well in the Saudi League. When Ronaldo was at Manchester United and he was performing poorly, I blamed his age for the poor performance, but I am just surprised that he is still playing well in the Saudi League and that he has been able to score goals since he joined the league.

I think a footballer like Ronaldo will not be easily satisfied even though he is old now and he definitely wants to continue to record records that have never existed before. I think the Saudi league is now much more competitive this season because they are willing to spend a lot of money to bring so many European players here and I think it might not be even enough for every team to have equal European players. We know that currently there are only 5 very powerful teams in the Saudi league and the battle for the title will of course only be dominated by these few teams.

But, as Ronaldo said, if the Saudi league wants to be more competitive, they need adequate players and infrastructure in the next few years and that will probably be the main focus of the Saudi league now and in the future. At Manchester United, everyone already knows that it is very intense in almost every match and often applies tight pressing so that only players aged 17 to 30 are suitable to play in the Premier League. Moreover, seeing that Ronaldo was already 37 years old at that time, it was very difficult for him to match all the things that other young players had.

[Iranus]

The Saudi government is allocating a lot of money to develop their league. Spending money is not difficult for them. Right now their goal is to inform the world about Saudi Arabia, to inform about Saudi Arabian football. And this is the goal they are moving towards. As far as I know Ronaldo has the most followers on social media. This is why Saudi Arabia was very interested in taking Ronaldo to Saudi Arabia. However, Saudi Arabia is keen to host the 2030 World Cup. And maybe before that they want to make the Saudi League more popular.

Saudi Arabia government are spending lot of money through PIF to boost Saudi Professional League. They give four biggest clubs a lot of money to buy star players from Europe and give those players very high salary as well as great privileges.
Ronaldo is like their league brand ambassador but after that, they continued to buy Benzema who just won Ballon d'Or two seasons ago. Ronaldo and Benzema decisions to join Saudi Professional League convinced more star players from Europe to move to Saudi Arabia. It is part of their plan to build up a stronger league that is a foundation for their national team. Aiming at World Cup 2030 with this ambitious plan looks good and at least Saudi Arabia has a stronger national team than Quatar. To prepare for World Cup 2022, Quatar had a long plan for their youth players but even so they could not achieve good results in World Cup 2022.

Saudi Arabian players are getting a chance to perform with star players like Ronaldo, Neymar and Benzema. This will further improve the performance of Saudi Arabia's domestic players. They will become more experienced. In the last Bishcup they won a great match against Argentina team. They surprised everyone by defeating Argentina in the first match. This shows that the Saudi team has the ability to perform well even against big teams. Players will become more experienced if they get proper guidance. However, the Saudi Arabian government is investing a lot of money in their overall development. Hopefully we will get better performance from the team in Saudi Arabia in the future.