Beyond predictions Girona is among the big teams and they can even finish in a better ranking than Atletico Madrid, that is something that rarely happens in La Liga. It's quite nice to see a different situation like that and I want to see the same thing happen this season with a tighter level of competition. But I also have the same thoughts as you after Girona sold the striker who was the top scorer last season. It was a loss for them, even though they got the benefit from the sale. Usually the teams that were surprising in the previous season will decline in the next season, for some reason I often see this in La Liga. And the worst thing is felt by Sevilla, in the previous season they were able to provide very tight competition, but in the following season they played badly and they were even threatened with relegation.
Girona sold not only the striker, they sold their captain Aleix Garcia to Bayer, Savio was undoubtedly one of the leaders of the team, and he went to City, Dovbyk went to Roma, such changes should affect the team, and perhaps not in the best way. But Girona still have Michel, he is a very talented coach, and he will try to play with those who remained in the team and those who came, they took Romeu from Barcelona on loan, Gil from Tottenham, and bought defender Frances from Zaragoza. Yes, these are not famous players, but before the start of this season no one expected that Girona would be able to achieve such a good result.