Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

[tusandii]

Al Nassr’s defense is not as strong as Al Hilal defense no doubt but the defense and attack complement each other so well that you wouldn’t notice easily but that poor defense is not the reason why they are behind Al Hilal, it is because of their poor start at the beginning of the season losing two matches back to back. Al Hilal has more probability to win but Al Nassr cannot be underrated because they have a very clinical attack. Their last meeting was in the Arab Club Champions Cup and Al Nassr won the match despite receiving a red card in the match and the only absent player in Al Hilal was Mitrovic. The question you need to ask yourself is Can Al Hilal defense prevent Al Nassr attack from scoring?

Yes I agree with you even though this question is not aimed at me but I as an Al Hilal supporter will say that the defense is enough to be able to withstand attacks from Al Nassr even though CR7 is very smart to look for empty situations to score but look at how strong he has been from the start of the season Until now, Al Hilal has been able to compete undefeated and the only bad thing that Al Hilal has experienced is that the match ended in a draw, while Al Nassr is still inconsistent with 2 defeats and this is proof that the difference between the two clubs is in their defense.

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[Doell]

I think salah is gonna be one of the incoming players in the nexts seasons i dont know if in the next one or in two ahead, because he still being so important for Liverpool team, so i dont know if they want to see him leaving to Saudi Arabia, but surely he is gonna end there.

Of course, we have heard rumors about him for some time, Al-Ittihad is a team that has great intentions to recruit him, but the recruitment plan did not materialize because Liverpool did not have enough time to find a replacement for Salah at Liverpool. In fact, in several mainstream sports media, I saw news that SPL officials would fully support Al-Ittihad in getting Salah.

Amazing, SPL officials would fully support Al-Ittihad in getting Salah? very cool. If that's the reality, then yes M. Salah sooner or later surely he will join this league, especially if the offer from the Ittihad club is very large, it will benefit Liverpool too. Because usually these Saudi clubs will offer a lot of money to buy a player, and the salary M. Salah is also likely to be high at there.

[rahmad2nd]

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Left one month before winter transfer window opening and have many Saudi Pro League teams are interested for signing many top European players. I think have two top players target for Saudi Pro League teams when winter transfer window opening from Jadon Sancho and Mohamed Salah. Current situation, Jadon Sancho have loss his position with Manchester United and his team confirmed will sell him when winter transfer window opening but waiting an acceptable from Sancho will agree for playing with Saudi Pro League teams or want extend by playing with European teams.

Mohamed Salah contract expiry the end of the 2024-25 season and he left one years half his contract with Liverpool, although Jurgen Klopp have confirmed will extend his contract but right now Salah still not get any deal with accept contract extend or will play for Saudi Pro League team exactly have excited offering with payment salary.

Apparently, it will be very interesting to watch this January transfer window. in particular, for Saudi Pro League clubs.
Talking about Mohamed Salah, this player is likely to remain a target for the Al Ittihad squad. Moreover, they had said that they would try it in the winter window next. It is not impossible if Al Ittihad offers an even more attractive offer. In fact, one of the Saudi clubs is adamant that they will bring in Mohamed Salah even if it is next summer.
If this is true, this situation seems to be a dilemma for Liverpool with the offer that Ittihad has submitted. if Liverpool releases their star player. which means, Klopp gets the funds to bring in the newcomers he wants. However, currently Liverpool's position requires this player from Egypt. The reason is, Liverpool will try hard to maintain their current position. In fact, even trying to overtake Man City is quite a difficult challenge. We'll see if Liverpool will keep him. or...

Speaking of Jadon Sancho, he is a young player full of ambition. even Sancho insisted on sticking to his decision, which in the end Ten Hag dropped him from the squad. So, I'm not sure if Sancho will be interested in playing in this competition. apart from that, Al Hilal will also take part in increasing the quota of other top European players. So, let's just wait and see what developments happen.

[Docnaster]

If Osimeh accept the Al Hilal offer is a wrong move for him in terms of sport career, i know is a super financial freedom, and you are not gonna lose your level because right now the Saudi league is having very important players and more than him, but come on..... you need to do something more and after that you can go to Saudi Arabia.

He is 24 years old and if we look at the length of the contracts that the Saudis are offering, I think it would not be worth it for him to go and play in Saudi Arabia. This is because in my opinion, when the Saudis offer millionaire 3-year contracts, after the contract ends, they will make another contract with a very low value of money, because they know that the player will no longer have value and will not have more choice, then the player will be forced to accept any contract the Saudis want.

now when you look at the case of Victor Osimhen who is 24 years old, he should think about playing for another big team in an important league like the premier league and staying in that other team for many years, only then could the guy have chances of winning an individual prize and also his market value would remain high, but I doubt that if he reached 33 years of age and wanted to retire in the Saudi league he would receive the same contract offer. This much money that the Saudis are offering will not last forever, probably after Ronaldo retires from football, the Saudis will no longer offer these expensive contracts

and also the famous players will not be interested in going to play in the saudi league after ronaldo retires, from the beginning I saw this saudi strategy as something that would fail in the long term and the reason is very simple: saudi arabia has completely different customs and laws from Europe and America and many African and Asian countries that live in democracy and freedom of expression. So even if they offer a lot of money, the player doesn't have freedom, the players' families don't have freedom, a small mistake can lead to the player's family being stoning to death.

Though the financial package that comes with Saudi Arabia offers for big European players are always very tempting and too difficult to reject but I think a world class player like Victor Osimhen must look beyond the financial aspect of the deal and focus more on the impact to his football career of he accepts to join the Al Hilal.
The Saudi League has really improved recently and is now reported to be one of the most popular leagues in the world but that doesn't mean that it's anywhere close to the top five European leagues and playing in the Saudi League as a 24 year old striker is literally gonna stop a player like Victor Osimhen from being recognized as one of the best players in the world. I think he still has at least five more seasons to play in Europe before a move to the middle East

[TelolettOm]

But I think that Haaland is on the best way to take Ronaldo's position. Ronaldo is about striking and deciding games, that is also what Haaland is about.
Messi is about making the game look like art while at the same time set unbreakable records as an individual player, too.
But given the numbers that Haaland is producing as a scorer, I think he will definitely be able to overtake Ronaldo in all competitions, but he will never be able to make the game look as beautiful and driven by high precision as Messi.

What position do you mean?
Dude, you need to understand that every player has their own style. I don't think we must compare Ronaldo and Haaland. Haaland will never be like Ronaldo because he has own style. He also won't be the Messi, it is because Messi has his own style. Every player is shining in their best era, Ronaldo and Messi are no longer in their best era. It is the era for Haaland, Mbappe, and Osimhen. As far as I know, these players are the next top attackers after the era of Ronaldo and Messi. However, I think we don't need to argue about which players are better. All of them are special players, all of them are in the same level. 

[temple]

I brought up their weak defense because that is exactly the reason why Al-Hilal is in front of Al-Nassr. When you argue that their defense is not the problem, well it can turn into a problem whereas Al-Hilal can win games with one goal scored. Al-Nassr almost always needs to counter conceded goals whereas Al-Hilal doesn't. If it stays like this throughout the season, it is more likely for Al-Nassr to have some more draws than it is for Al-Hilal.

Al Nassr’s defense is not as strong as Al Hilal defense no doubt but the defense and attack complement each other so well that you wouldn’t notice easily but that poor defense is not the reason why they are behind Al Hilal, it is because of their poor start at the beginning of the season losing two matches back to back. Al Hilal has more probability to win but Al Nassr cannot be underrated because they have a very clinical attack. Their last meeting was in the Arab Club Champions Cup and Al Nassr won the match despite receiving a red card in the match and the only absent player in Al Hilal was Mitrovic. The question you need to ask yourself is Can Al Hilal defense prevent Al Nassr attack from scoring?

The clinical attack may save the day for them in the long run this season. I agree and Ronaldo and Mane will do their best to stay close to Al-Hilal and more importantly, to win the games against Al-Hilal.

They haven't meet each other yet and it is 4 points difference between them and two games they have to play against each other. I know it is too early for mathematics because the season is still not that old, but I think Al-Nassr has what it takes to play a perfect season for the rest of the games. It is up to them.

[Moneyprism]

I think salah is gonna be one of the incoming players in the nexts seasons i dont know if in the next one or in two ahead, because he still being so important for Liverpool team, so i dont know if they want to see him leaving to Saudi Arabia, but surely he is gonna end there.

Of course, we have heard rumors about him for some time, Al-Ittihad is a team that has great intentions to recruit him, but the recruitment plan did not materialize because Liverpool did not have enough time to find a replacement for Salah at Liverpool. In fact, in several mainstream sports media, I saw news that SPL officials would fully support Al-Ittihad in getting Salah.

If Al Ittihad manages to get Moh Salah, then they are a lucky team, so far Moh Salah's performance has been very good at Liverpool, it's very rare to see a striker with such great abilities so Liverpool definitely won't easily let Moh Salah go to another team.

The SPL league is really attracting a lot of attention at the moment, they have managed to get a lot of great players and I'm sure that in the end all the old star players will spend their retirement in the SPL.

[youdacapt]

But I think that Haaland is on the best way to take Ronaldo's position. Ronaldo is about striking and deciding games, that is also what Haaland is about.
Messi is about making the game look like art while at the same time set unbreakable records as an individual player, too.
But given the numbers that Haaland is producing as a scorer, I think he will definitely be able to overtake Ronaldo in all competitions, but he will never be able to make the game look as beautiful and driven by high precision as Messi.

What position do you mean?
Dude, you need to understand that every player has their own style. I don't think we must compare Ronaldo and Haaland. Haaland will never be like Ronaldo because he has own style. He also won't be the Messi, it is because Messi has his own style. Every player is shining in their best era, Ronaldo and Messi are no longer in their best era. It is the era for Haaland, Mbappe, and Osimhen. As far as I know, these players are the next top attackers after the era of Ronaldo and Messi. However, I think we don't need to argue about which players are better. All of them are special players, all of them are in the same level. 

Ronaldo is a very different player to Haaland; while Haaland is a prolific goalscorer, ronaldo is more than just a goalscorer; he is a mentality monster and also an elite creator in the football game; proficient in penalty kicks, free kicks and has dominated in every league he has played in.

While Haaland can also be the very best; he cannot lace the cristiano ronaldo capacity or fill his boots.

[Marvell1]

But in yesterday's transfer market we got a lot of surprises after seeing so many top European players who were interested and ended up joining Arab clubs. Moreover, it turns out that the head of recruitment at the SPL is currently intending to bring in even more in the next transfer window. So my prediction is that there will definitely be more top European players joining the Arab League.

SPL will picks more interest from Europe and becomes the center of attention when they succeed in bringing more top players, usually their signings is usually experienced players but this time around, they will mixed everyone with both young and old. Saudi Arabia have the resources to carter for these new players, so I don't consider it to be a problem rather its breakthrough for Saudi Pro League this present era. Saudi Pro League clubs are not relenting as they're keen on signing more European players in the coming transfer window in January.

The Saudi Pro League really wants top European player to participate with Saudi Arabian clubs, Saudi Arabian clubs don't thinks about expensive transfer fees because Saudi Arabian clubs don't have financial problems, maybe they think that bringing in lots of players from Europe will have a positive impact for the future progress of the Saudi Arabian club.

and I'm sure top European players will definitely consider joining Saudi Arabia because there they will be paid very large salaries, unlike European clubs.
However, that developing a career in Saudi Arabia is a little difficult because in Saudi Arabia it is not as popular as the leagues Europe, but if they want big salaries, Saudi Arabian clubs could be the main choice, but I am sure that as time goes by, Saudi Arabian clubs will become more and more well known and will be as popular as the European leagues.

I think they are trying to transition to a league that has quality as well. Especially because they have already got the popularity they needed. Now they need more young and quality players. Players that are going to be able to improve the quality of football in the league and also attract other young players. We saw Ronaldo come here and he did attract a lot of senior players. Now is the time for them to bring in young players.

And I don't think it is going to be a problem for them because they have the money and a club is not going to pass on a crazy deal.

[TastyChillySauce00]

But I think that Haaland is on the best way to take Ronaldo's position. Ronaldo is about striking and deciding games, that is also what Haaland is about.
Messi is about making the game look like art while at the same time set unbreakable records as an individual player, too.
But given the numbers that Haaland is producing as a scorer, I think he will definitely be able to overtake Ronaldo in all competitions, but he will never be able to make the game look as beautiful and driven by high precision as Messi.

What position do you mean?
Dude, you need to understand that every player has their own style. I don't think we must compare Ronaldo and Haaland. Haaland will never be like Ronaldo because he has own style. He also won't be the Messi, it is because Messi has his own style. Every player is shining in their best era, Ronaldo and Messi are no longer in their best era. It is the era for Haaland, Mbappe, and Osimhen. As far as I know, these players are the next top attackers after the era of Ronaldo and Messi. However, I think we don't need to argue about which players are better. All of them are special players, all of them are in the same level. 

Ronaldo is a very different player to Haaland; while Haaland is a prolific goalscorer, ronaldo is more than just a goalscorer; he is a mentality monster and also an elite creator in the football game; proficient in penalty kicks, free kicks and has dominated in every league he has played in.

Ronaldo has everything on him. These guys were different types of striker. I meant ronaldo very often played as winger but he can also become a striker while haaland was pure striker. he is good in one tap and positioning but ronaldo can dribble the ball and scoring much better than haaland.
Ronaldo was not a typical of striker that is only waiting to tap in and then goal. I don't know people are still comparing those guys even though it's quite clear that if they were different.

While Haaland can also be the very best; he cannot lace the cristiano ronaldo capacity or fill his boots.

Haaland is still but i think that if he will be his own form. There's no need to compare him to the ronaldo as haaland as his own uniqueness.

[Belarge]

But I think that Haaland is on the best way to take Ronaldo's position. Ronaldo is about striking and deciding games, that is also what Haaland is about.
Messi is about making the game look like art while at the same time set unbreakable records as an individual player, too.
But given the numbers that Haaland is producing as a scorer, I think he will definitely be able to overtake Ronaldo in all competitions, but he will never be able to make the game look as beautiful and driven by high precision as Messi.

Leo Messi is a creative playmaker that performs what he will do for his team to win a game. While Ronaldo is the goal machine in his team, he's popularly known as the king of comebacks, that area he's a demigod. Wait a minute, you're doing comparison between Erling Haaland and Cristiano Ronaldo? It's funny because Ronaldo will remained the best player in all major ompetitions in years to come. Don't get me wrong, Haaland is a top striker and will definitely achieved awards and lift trophies under Pep Guardiola and for Manchester City, were he's regarded as the very best player.

[klidex]

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I think they are trying to transition to a league that has quality as well. Especially because they have already got the popularity they needed. Now they need more young and quality players. Players that are going to be able to improve the quality of football in the league and also attract other young players. We saw Ronaldo come here and he did attract a lot of senior players. Now is the time for them to bring in young players.

And I don't think it is going to be a problem for them because they have the money and a club is not going to pass on a crazy deal.

In my opinion, the Saudi Pro League doesn't really need young players but rather needs more experienced players who have high popularity in the European league such as Ronaldo and Neymar. It is not easy for Saudi Arabian clubs to recruit young players from the European league because even young players need to think long and hard living in Saudi Arabia, especially young players still have a long future and want to develop their careers in the European leagues, in contrast to experienced players like Ronaldo and Neymar, they spent their youth playing in the European leagues so they have enough experience to join Arab clubs Saudi, fans are slowly starting to know what Saudi Arabian clubs are like so that the SPL will be increasingly interested in the global audience.

[len01]

I think they are trying to transition to a league that has quality as well. Especially because they have already got the popularity they needed. Now they need more young and quality players. Players that are going to be able to improve the quality of football in the league and also attract other young players. We saw Ronaldo come here and he did attract a lot of senior players. Now is the time for them to bring in young players.

And I don't think it is going to be a problem for them because they have the money and a club is not going to pass on a crazy deal.

I remember when Neymar said that it all started with Ronaldo and that meant Ronaldo was the one who provided motivation for senior players or other young players to believe that the SPl could become a big league in the world and it was all proven after Ronaldo arrival that many other senior players came to the SPL like Benzema and Neymar and for me this is the goal of the SPL to get big traffic on the SPL to get big popularity and will continue to bring in talented players or star players from europe to be able to take the SPL to a higher level as is rumored to be able to join UCL.

but one thing you have to remember is that bringing in young players is not a young thing because maybe you know that a talented young player from a european team will refuse an offer from the SPL on the grounds that the young player needs a title and a career with a big team that has experience in getting prestigious titles in europe.
so before the SPL can enter the UCL list, it will be very difficult to bring in young players from europe unless they have academics like european teams to create young players with new talents.

[temple]

But I think that Haaland is on the best way to take Ronaldo's position. Ronaldo is about striking and deciding games, that is also what Haaland is about.
Messi is about making the game look like art while at the same time set unbreakable records as an individual player, too.
But given the numbers that Haaland is producing as a scorer, I think he will definitely be able to overtake Ronaldo in all competitions, but he will never be able to make the game look as beautiful and driven by high precision as Messi.

Leo Messi is a creative playmaker that performs what he will do for his team to win a game. While Ronaldo is the goal machine in his team, he's popularly known as the king of comebacks, that area he's a demigod. Wait a minute, you're doing comparison between Erling Haaland and Cristiano Ronaldo? It's funny because Ronaldo will remained the best player in all major ompetitions in years to come. Don't get me wrong, Haaland is a top striker and will definitely achieved awards and lift trophies under Pep Guardiola and for Manchester City, were he's regarded as the very best player.

I said "be able to overtake", which implies that he has the ability to overtake Ronaldo, but whether he does it or not depends on many things, some of which he can control and some of which he can't control. But Haaland's numbers in the league, in the Champions League and in the national team are all better than that of Ronaldo at the same age. I don't know what your opinion is about Haaland, but when I see this table (sorted by ratio), I think it is not irrational to say that Haaland has the ability to crush Ronaldo's records, almost all of them by the way.



Haaland has crushed almost any record you can come up with based on age. Number of hattricks, number of goals per game, number of anything. And yet it is true that he is only 23 yet and he has to go a long way to compete with Ronaldo's records and as I said before, health would be something he can only influence to a degree and I hope his physical condition remains intact and he gets the chance to perform on the highest level for at least a decade from now.

It will be interesting to observe how the Saudi Professional League develops over time in the next years. Maybe it will be so fast that we see Haaland play in the SPL in 5 years.

[BitcoinHunt3r]

I remember when Neymar said that it all started with Ronaldo and that meant Ronaldo was the one who provided motivation for senior players or other young players to believe that the SPl could become a big league in the world and it was all proven after Ronaldo arrival that many other senior players came to the SPL like Benzema and Neymar and for me this is the goal of the SPL to get big traffic on the SPL to get big popularity and will continue to bring in talented players or star players from europe to be able to take the SPL to a higher level as is rumored to be able to join UCL.

but one thing you have to remember is that bringing in young players is not a young thing because maybe you know that a talented young player from a european team will refuse an offer from the SPL on the grounds that the young player needs a title and a career with a big team that has experience in getting prestigious titles in europe.
so before the SPL can enter the UCL list, it will be very difficult to bring in young players from europe unless they have academics like european teams to create young players with new talents.

Yeah there's no need to put too much hope in young players coming into this league they have a dream to make history and the Saudi Pro League is not the right league for that we have to realize that, moreover currently the Saudi Pro League is almost entering its first period of mega star transfers meaning they will carry out a business evaluation if within 2 seasons the results do not match expectations then this transfer effort will be reduced or stopped, what is clear is that their main target is to reach 2030 as a promotional effort to host the World Cup, after that everything will be considered.

So far, the Saudi Pro League has been successful in promotion and has attracted world attention but from the business side we don't know, we have not found any information regarding the report but maybe at the end of the season we can see it. Personally, I think this is far from making a profit they still need to spend millions of dollars on next season well, usually in season 2 there will be changes.

[Jossque]

We are likely to see a fierce battle between Al Hilal and Al Nassr in the championship race. Al Hilal are currently undefeated while Al Nassr are undefeated after losing in the first 2 weeks. With Ronaldo, Talisca and Mane leading the goalscoring charge, the team will have a season in which they have no problem scoring goals. It should be underlined that this trio has a total of 49 goals.
The situation is different at Al Hilal, the other title contender. Of course, Mitrovic, the team's main striker, contributes the most, but the other players contribute almost equally. This is at least healthier because it means that when one player is injured, the other players can carry the goal load. Mitrovic is the team's top scorer with 17 goals, followed by Al Dawsari with 9, Malcom with 8 and Milinkovic with 6.

[snipie]

Al-Ittihad announced their new coach after Nuno Espirito Santo to be Marcelo Gallardo (El Muneco) who was engaged for a year and a half with the team.
El Muneco was training River Plate before and hopefully he will be as successful with his new club. Nuno was sacked since Al-Ittihad results weren't good lately and because of disputes between him and his players namely Benzema.
His first match with the team will be away vs Al-Ettifaq which is quite good team. A hard test to start with

[bering]

Al-Ittihad announced their new coach after Nuno Espirito Santo to be Marcelo Gallardo (El Muneco) who was engaged for a year and a half with the team.
El Muneco was training River Plate before and hopefully he will be as successful with his new club. Nuno was sacked since Al-Ittihad results weren't good lately and because of disputes between him and his players namely Benzema.
His first match with the team will be away vs Al-Ettifaq which is quite good team. A hard test to start with

I have just read this news too that Al Ittihad management was feel dissapoint to Nuno Espirito Santo because he was unable to bringing Al Ittihad to performing well and under Nuno Espirito Santo Al Ittihad at Saudi Pro League only able to occupy 5th place and gets 3 loses so they had decided to sacked him and hire Marcelo Gallardo as new manager and previously Marcelo Gallardo was train River Plate for 8 years and total under Gallardo River Plate can gets 14 trophies including 2 Copa Libertadores trophy so if we see from Gallardo achievement i think he is experience manager with plenty of trophies so probably his is the right manager to Al Ittihad however Gallardo will be at Al Ittihad until 2025 and he has 1 year contract extension option

[makishart]

Al Hilal and Al Nassr are going to play against each other in this season on the 1st of December but still, this can't be a reason to say Al Hilal will lose points against Al Nassr.
A team like Al Nasrr has players like Mane and Ronaldo in their teams but the thing about Al Nassr is they don't have as good teamwork as they have in Al Hilal and that's why I think Al Hilal got a better chance of beating Al Nassr even in the game they face each other in a few weeks.

Al hilal is ready to destroy al nassr. Al nassr can only rely upon ronaldo as its main attacking. Other player like mane has fewer contribution to the club. This is also the main reason why al hilal will be winning the league.
Al nassr will not able to beat al hilal this season. Al nassr was quite strong but it's not strong enough to compete with al hilal. Hilal is having better chemistry compared with al nassr. Mitrovic will be showing all of his skill in front of ronaldo.
Savic is also ready to keep the defensive line of al hilal. Al hilal will be playing without neymar and that's not even a probelm.

Al hilal has been consistently beating many big clubs and al nassr will be the next team to be humiliated by al hilal soon. SPL shall prepare the trophy for al hilal.

[Strongkored]

Al Hilal and Al Nassr are going to play against each other in this season on the 1st of December but still, this can't be a reason to say Al Hilal will lose points against Al Nassr.
A team like Al Nasrr has players like Mane and Ronaldo in their teams but the thing about Al Nassr is they don't have as good teamwork as they have in Al Hilal and that's why I think Al Hilal got a better chance of beating Al Nassr even in the game they face each other in a few weeks.

This will certainly be a big match that is quite eagerly awaited and from both teams, the same thing is that they are a team that is quite productive in scoring goals but Al Hilal is much better at maintaining their defense so that currently they are the team with the fewest goals conceded and are also the only one team that has not been defeated, in this match Al Hilal will get a slight advantage as the home team.
Before this big match, this week the big match that will attract attention is Al Ettifaq vs Ittihad FC, even though Ittihad FC is the favorite, the opponent's situation is quite different from last season, and how Ittihad FC appears less consistent will open up opportunities for Al Ettifaq as the home team to took points, and both teams have the same motivation to end the instability in their performance, especially since Ittihad FC will almost certainly fail to defend the title because they are already quite far behind Al Hilal and will try to get up to at least get a better ranking.