Al Nassr fell from the peak to the abyss, the first two matches of the season in the Saudi Pro League were lost in the new season. Because of that, the internal team at Mrsool Park began to be confused.
In the summer of 2023, Al Nassr increased its personnel quite aggressively. The home team Mrsool Park welcomes a series of names from Europe, such as Sadio Mane, Alex Telles, Seko Fofana or Marcelo Brozovic. In the near future, they continue to add the duo Aymeric Laporte – Otavio.
However, Al Nassr’s achievements continued to fluctuate. On August 12, Ronaldo and his teammates won the Arab Club Champions Cup title. It was a brilliant CR7 match with 2 goals, helping Al Nassr come upstream successfully.
However, right at the start of the Saudi Pro League 2023/24 journey, the team under coach Luis Castro performed badly, losing the past 2 matches. After the negative results happened, the internal division of Al Nassr began to crack.
According to a source of Goal, the two biggest stars of Al Nassr at this time, Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane, began to conflict. The reason is very simple, both are big egos, coming to Al Nassr with the ambition to be the club’s No. 1 star. Therefore, this ego collision is conceivable early on.
In particular, both Ronaldo and Mane are right-footed, with the same tendency to swerve to the left before dribbling inside, or entering the opponent’s penalty area to score. They have the same style of play, trampling each other’s feet and then leading to a competition for positions.
Even further away, they have inherently had a rivalry with each other since their time playing in the English Premier League. Ronaldo is a legend at MU, and Mane is the star of Liverpool, the most rival teams in the football world . With the existing block of contradictions plus the competition for positions, the possibility that Ronaldo and Mane are “hard to see” with each other is understandable.
Remember, one of the reasons why Mane was liquidated by Bayern Munich club after only 1 season, was the fight with his teammates. This Senegalese player even punched teammate Leroy Sane in the face just for the sake of competing for influence.
Surprisingly, in early August, Sadio Mane was full of praise for Cristiano Ronaldo. The former Liverpool player said after joining Al Nassr: “Ronaldo’s presence is my motivation, because he is the best player in history, if not the best. Al Nassr also has many titles. stars like Anderson Talisca and the whole team are really great. I admired my new teammates from the first training session.”
Or recently, Ronaldo and Mane celebrated together passionately. Therefore, the relationship of this duo quickly deteriorated, surprising many people.
It is not clear how coach Luis Castro and the Al Nassr leadership team will deal with this incident. But if they don’t quickly settle these two big egos, the fight promises to break out soon.