When Al Hilal had victory against Manchester City ppl accepted SPL's got talent & skills to beat the best teams. European players don't want to play in SPL because they want to make it stronger they're going because they'll get more money.
Who did? That was one game that got lucky, that's it. Put them in UCL and they would not even make it to top 24, let alone to anything further. Just because they got lucky one game, doesn't make them that much better, if anyone assumes Al Hilal is better than City, they do not know of football.
I understand they are not as bad as they used to be, like 10 years ago they were bad, they are now better, but they are not THAT much better, not good enough to compete against European teams. Of course it depends on the European team, like if we are talking about teams outside of top 10 big leagues, then yeah they can easily compete.