Portugal international Cristiano Ronaldo, who plays for Al Nassr, said on Friday he expects a “very competitive” Saudi league given the “size” of players signed by the country’s main teams.
Questioned by journalists, after Al Nassr’s victory over Farense (5-1) in a friendly match played at Estádio Algarve, regarding the future duel with compatriot and Portuguese coach Jorge Jesus, who returned to Al Hilal, Ronaldo said that this confrontation ” it’s not just with Jorge Jesus, it’s with all the good teams Saudi Arabia has”.
“I said half a year ago that the competition [saudita] will grow this year. It’s going to be a very competitive competition, given the number of players who have gone there, and it’s going to be interesting.”he added, stressing that his team “will have to prepare in the best way to make a good competition”.
The Croatian Brozovic, now a colleague of the Portuguese in Al Nassr, the French Benzema and Kanté and the Portuguese Jota in the champion Al-Ittihad and the Portuguese Rúben Neves, the Serbian Milinkovic-Savic and the Senegalese Koulibaly in Al Hilal de Jesus are some of the most important news in the Asian league.
Saying that the players are “very happy” with the new technical team, led by Luís Castro, Cristiano Ronaldo, who was not even on the bench on Friday, stressed that training is going well and that he hopes to play against Celta de Vigo (July 17) and Benfica (July 20), in Algarve Trophy matches.
“In the next game I hope to play a little bit. I didn’t play today because I only trained for four days, it was too early, but against Celta and Benfica I hope to play a lot of minutes.” revealed.
Regarding Al Nassr’s interest in Porto player Otávio, Cristiano Ronaldo stressed that the Portugal international was just one of many players linked to the Saudis.
“A lot of players are being talked about. I’m not talking about anyone, because I’m not a football agent. So many things are being talked about, that Cristiano talks to this one, who calls Cristiano, but that’s part of it. The market when it’s open is everything possible. Otávio, like 10, 15 players that have been talked about since last season and who can join Al Nassr’s squad. There is still no news. We are clearly going to strengthen the team, but there are no names anyway”, guaranteed .
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Source: DN
