That's all the kings who left their teams so far this summer. Stop thinking about that tall guy with the fancy hair. No, Paul Pogba is not Juventus' king. Not even with the 132 million U.S dollars Manchester United will pay for him.
Paulo Dybala is the Old Lady's king, the kid led Juventus in scoring with 19 goals. It's a little hard for Pogba to call Dybala king:
While Pogba and Dybala work this thing out, let's take a look at how the teams who lost their kings will be affected this coming season and what they're doing to recover. We're going to start with Marseille.
Batshuayi scored 17 goals for Les Phoceens last season in Ligue 1, that's 35% of Marseille's goals, including three goals that were essential in victories and three game-tying goals. That's 12 points right there, if Marseille finished twelve points lower last season they would've been relegated.
Marseille got 50 million dollars for the 22-year-old forward. They didn't use any of that money to get a new king, although they got Bafetimbi Gomis on a season-long loan deal. Gomis scored 13 goals in the past two premier league seasons out of 62 matches.
He scored less goals in two seasons in England than his last season in France with Lyon, netting 14 goals for the French side in 2013-14-- one goal shy of being his team's topscorer: almost king. If Gomis performs how he always performed in Ligue 1, Marseille isn't going to miss Batshuayi much.
But that's asking a 30-year-old to get back to the form he had three seasons ago, can you win the lottery again with the same number you played with three years ago? Keep an on eye on Gomis this season for the answer to that question.
Okay, let's get this straight here, we're not going to try to sugar-code it, Napoli lost big. Big! They lost the king of kings. Higuain scored 36 league goals last season, the second top scorer, Dybala, tallied half of that. How ridiculous is that?
The worst part about Higuain leaving is not Higuain leaving but is the team he left Napoli for. He went to the team that's been winning the league since 2011-12: Juventus. Higuain's 36 goals for Napoli was the best effort in trying to knock Juve to second place but it still was far away-- 10 points short to be exact. Now the best weapon to steal Massimiliano Allegri's side's throne is joining force with them. You can go ahead and cry at this if you're a Juventus hater:
Marseille
Batshuayi scored 17 goals for Les Phoceens last season in Ligue 1, that's 35% of Marseille's goals, including three goals that were essential in victories and three game-tying goals. That's 12 points right there, if Marseille finished twelve points lower last season they would've been relegated.
Marseille got 50 million dollars for the 22-year-old forward. They didn't use any of that money to get a new king, although they got Bafetimbi Gomis on a season-long loan deal. Gomis scored 13 goals in the past two premier league seasons out of 62 matches.
He scored less goals in two seasons in England than his last season in France with Lyon, netting 14 goals for the French side in 2013-14-- one goal shy of being his team's topscorer: almost king. If Gomis performs how he always performed in Ligue 1, Marseille isn't going to miss Batshuayi much.
But that's asking a 30-year-old to get back to the form he had three seasons ago, can you win the lottery again with the same number you played with three years ago? Keep an on eye on Gomis this season for the answer to that question.
Napoli
Okay, let's get this straight here, we're not going to try to sugar-code it, Napoli lost big. Big! They lost the king of kings. Higuain scored 36 league goals last season, the second top scorer, Dybala, tallied half of that. How ridiculous is that?
The worst part about Higuain leaving is not Higuain leaving but is the team he left Napoli for. He went to the team that's been winning the league since 2011-12: Juventus. Higuain's 36 goals for Napoli was the best effort in trying to knock Juve to second place but it still was far away-- 10 points short to be exact. Now the best weapon to steal Massimiliano Allegri's side's throne is joining force with them. You can go ahead and cry at this if you're a Juventus hater:
Napoli will get Arkadiusz Milik and made a bid for Mauro Icardi in seek of a new king. These are two terrific young strikers, they both topped their teams in scoring last season but their goals put together is only one more goal than what Higuain scored. And without an Higuain-last-season like performance, it will be easier for Claudio Bravo to score as a keeper for Barcelona than for Nap to win the Scudetto over Juventus.
Not impossible, though:
Paris Saint-Germain
And for PSG, they lost big too. They lost one of the biggest kings, literally and physically, in the football world. But whatever, I've never been a big Zlatan fan so let's end this blogpost right here.
Whoa! I'm just kidding, Zlatan, chill out.
PSG are in the market for Ligue 1's second topscorer, Alexandre Lacazette-- that's the best move you can do after losing the league's topscorer-- and Real Madrid product Jese Rodriguez. Even if they don't land either one of them, it's not unlikely for them to win the league again. Why? Because they got the third and the fourth topscorer from last season, Edinson Cavani and Hatem Ben Arfa respectively.
So if the French champions do get Lacazette, they will have last season's second, third and fourth topscorer. Now that's how you get back up after you get checkmated. Give it up for PSG! No Zlatan, no problem for them, the only thing they will miss after Ibra's exit is the money from his jersey. Ibra's jersey is the sixth most sold jersey in the world for two reasons; 1) you pay for each letter of the player's name when you purchase a jersey.
And 2) he scores sandwich goals like this:
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