So I admit that I originally considered his move to be a bit a retirement stats padding. And then this last winter and summer we saw a pretty large number of very very decent level players moving to the same league.
Today he's scored a double in a 4-3 win against a team that has Frank Kessie and Riyad Mahrez on the score sheet, two players that would have improved us.
It's certainly not a joke league. I'll respect the continuing goal tally much more than Pele adding friendlies.
The majority of players that Ronaldo scores against are still very much a bit of a joke though aren't they? There's very few good defensive players really.
The four big clubs ranked (according to me) and their foreign players. The rest are Saudi-players.
Benzema plays for a club (Al-Ittihad) with Fabinho and an injury-prone Kanté - the rest are nobodies.
2 out of their first 11 are good players.
Neymar has a slightly better club (Al-Hilal) with Mitrovic, Savic, Koulibaly and Neves around him - the remaining
6 players are still saudis who'd likely never make it in any big european league
Mahrez plays with Firmino at Al-Ahli among Kessie, Saint-Maximin, Veiga, Alioski, Demiral and Mendy.
Ronaldo plays for maybe the best squad on paper with Mane, Otavio, Brozovic, Laporte, Ospina, Telles
Basically in every game they play they face at least 6 "bad" players from Saudi Arabia. It probably will change over time though with the money they poor in.