The Saudi Pro League is now home to the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Karim Benzema, Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Riyad Mahrez.
With so much talent plying their trade there, LiveScore is the place to be for all the big talking points.
Ronaldo makes injury comeback
Cristiano Ronaldo returned to action in Al-Nassr’s friendly defeat to Saudi Pro League rivals Al-Hilal.
A muscle injury prevented the Portuguese superstar from facing old foe Lionel Messi last month.
But he was named in the starting XI today as goals from Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Salem Aldawsari earned a 2-0 win for Al-Hilal which saw them lift the Riyadh Season Cup.
The Undertaker really brought out the Riyadh Season Cup trophy 😱
Ronaldo was loving it 😅 pic.twitter.com/F2SO3WDzKQ
— LiveScore (@livescore) February 8, 2024
Al-Hilal plan Bruno move
Al-Hilal aim to convince Bruno Fernandes to join them this summer despite being snubbed last month.
According to reports in Portugal, the Manchester United captain turned down an astronomical offer from the Saudi Pro League leaders in January.
Fernandes believes he still has unfinished business at Old Trafford and wants to continue playing in an elite European league — but another offer this summer is likely.
Al-Nassr thrash Miami
Former Manchester City defender Aymeric Laporte scored from inside his own half as Al-Nassr thrashed Inter Miami 6-0.
Cristiano Ronaldo was absent from the much-anticipated friendly against Lionel Messi’s MLS side but the 38-year-old superstar’s team-mates put on a dominant display without him.
Brazilian Talisca bagged a hat-trick for the Saudi Pro League club, with Otavio and Mohammed Maran also on target in Riyadh, as Messi was limited to just seven minutes from the bench.
No Ronaldo? Don’t worry.. 🤩 pic.twitter.com/zpWf9XIbwn
— AlNassr FC (@AlNassrFC_EN) February 1, 2024
Ronaldo in a Mess
Cristiano Ronaldo’s reunion with old foe Lionel Messi is OFF after the Al-Nassr forward was ruled out of Thursday’s friendly with Inter Miami through injury.
Ronaldo’s boss Luis Castro has confirmed his star man has not yet fully shaken off the calf problem which saw the Saudi club’s two scheduled friendlies in China cancelled last week.
Castro said: “Ronaldo is in the final part of his recovery to join the group. We hope that in the next few days you can start working with the team but he will be absent from the game.”
Ney not happy
Neymar has hit back at online trolls who mocked him for supposedly putting on weight during his recovery from injury.
The 31-year-old Al-Hilal forward is out for the season after damaging his anterior cruciate ligament on Brazil duty in October but took to his Instagram account to hit back at recent comments over his size.
Neymar wrote: “Today’s training session finished. Overweight ok, but fat? I don’t think so.”
