Girona has sold its best player last season, Artem Dovbyk. The top scorer of La Liga last season officially moved to AS Roma. I don't know what Girona management is thinking. Whether it is Artem Dovbyk's choice or a business done by Girona management. But certainly Girona will have difficulties this season. I doubt they can perform as well as last season. Last season they managed to become one of the title contenders. It seems that Real Madrid, Atletico and Barcelona will return to being the top three in La Liga.
In addition, in the pre-season match against Newcastle yesterday, Girona lost badly with a fairly large score without reply so that at least it can also be a reflection that Girona this season may not be as competitive as last season. However, I also will not take this as a decision that Girona will really be a weak team this season in La Liga because Girona could have another strategy after selling the player to AS Roma. Although for now there has been no significant change in the Girona camp itself.
I still insist that the season Girona had was one-off and nothing big and we are not going to see them do that good anymore, that is not going to happen and we are going to end up with some loss eventually.
They are probably going to have hard time being in top 10 this season, last season they were even leading the league for some weeks, and were second for a while too, they finished up third which is a huge deal for them, but this time around I am sure that they are going to end up being much worse, things will not be too simple. I believe that we are going to see Girona be battling middle table at best case.
Why do I think like that? Because they are a team who overachieved their position last season and anytime we see that in history of football we end up seeing that team not do as well as they hope after one season, even if they are the winners of the league they still get worse. So this is going to be a season Girona will have hard time without a doubt.
At least they had one good season so they should be happy about that and not have worries about it, I feel like it is going to be just fine when we are dealing with something like this, it is going to be quite normal situation.