Top scorer for Juve in the league, top scorer for Juve in CL. First season at the club.
Clearly irrelevant.
If that's the only way you judge players, I'm sorry that you have such a limited understanding of football. Must be frustrating for you.
Higuain is a small game player. But he does score a lot of goals against weak opponents, that's why I said he's kinda irrelevant, not completely irrelevant. His performances in important games against strong or even semi-strong opposition have been catastrophic. And we are not talking about a small sample size here. That's almost all his games for Real Madrid, Napoli and Argentina. In the CL with us he scored 2 goals in the KO stages in 7 matches, both against Monaco when he fucked up 2 more goals (the problem with all strikers is that even if they miss 10 chances, as soon as they score 1 goal people have a brain freeze and forget that). He was poor in all the other games.
Juventus won the league 5 times in a row without having a prolific goalscorer in the league. It's all about style of play. Real Madrid have a certain style that guarantees that even if you put my granny as CF, she's bound to score some goals in the league. Morata scored 15 as a sub last season and he's never scored more than 8 before that. Same thing with Napoli, though they're obviously not as good. They sold Higuain and Mertens scored 30. Before that they had Cavani.
Did we really buy Higuain to score against Pescara and Crotone? We don't need him for that. Did we buy him to weaken Napoli? If we did then it didn't work, because they scored more goals and won more points without him. Why? Because he's easily replaceable.
We sold Pogba for a record fee and we should have used that money to boost our chances in the CL. Instead we blew it on a fat, 29-year-old proven choker, who's only gonna get slower, fatter and his value is going to plummet in the next 24 months.
I mean, can anyone really say with a straight face that Higuain was essential in our CL run? We could have played Quags in his place with the same success.
Pogba may have been overpriced, but he's still a good player and 5 years from now he'll be in his prime, worth a lot of money and Higuain will be a retired couch potato.