Quote from: Uruhara on October 04, 2024, 07:37:38 PM

Quote from: Fuso.hp on October 04, 2024, 07:25:21 PM

When Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United signed a contract with Saudi League club Al Nasser and this deal was completed with a high transfer fee, many thought that Ronaldo alone would perform very well in the Saudi League and he would be the Saudi League Footballer of the Year every time. But the reality is different, no other club has sat after completing the contract with Ronaldo, Al Nassr. Because the other clubs knew that if they could not recruit good quality players from European clubs to their clubs then the value of their clubs would decrease as well as Al Nassr would single handedly dominate the Saudi League.

That's why Al Nasser as well as Al Hilal bought Neymar and other players with significant sums of money from Europe to increase the strength of their club. On the contrary, Al Ittihad have brought in Karim Benzema and other players and now we always see tough competition in the Saudi league with these teams.

Al-Nassr's success in bringing in Cristiano Ronaldo has indeed had a domino effect on the transfer market for all SPL clubs. Because in the end all teams don't want to lose in the competition. And as we saw in the following season after the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo to Al-Nassr, the majority of SPL clubs immediately did the same thing as Al-Nassr by bringing in many star players from Europe and America.

Mane, Benzema, Neymar and many more. Several clubs even immediately brought in quality coaches from Europe. Well, all of that increases the tension of tighter competition in the SPL. And also pushing the quality of SPL itself to a higher level. And the most surprising thing is that from a business perspective, it turns out that this has reaped great success for the world of football business there. Because we know that after Cristiano Ronaldo came to Al-Nassr, we have seen an extraordinary growth in the enthusiasm of television station owners in almost all countries to successfully obtain broadcasting rights to show SPL matches. Initially, the SPL was not broadcast much in many countries. But now it seems like hundreds of countries are broadcasting the SPL. Even though it is still unable to compete with the Premier League and other leagues in Europe. but still the development of SPL has increased rapidly with a domino effect from the presence of Cr7 there. So it is not surprising that Al-hilal still wanted Neymar even though at that time they also knew that Neymar was a player who was prone to injury. Because before he received a serious injury, Neymar was actually just recovering from a previous injury. So Al-Hilal is indeed ready for this risk.

If it wasn't for Cristiano Ronaldo, maybe we didn't know so much about this league until now and other players who came to play in this league might not have come to play in this league. Every season every team is trying their best to buy European players so now not only senior players are coming to Saudi League but also many young players are coming to Saudi League. I think if a team from Saudi League gets a chance to play in Champions League then other players will focus on Saudi League. Because the Saudi League will actually have a lot of money as well as opportunities to build their careers. A part of the big stars are already playing in the Saudi league, so which big stars can come to the Saudi league next?