Mario Gomez spent a couple of rather frustrating, injury-stricken seasons with Fiorentina between 2013 and 2015, drifting out of the Germany squad and into a series of persistent rumors linking him with a move to...well, anywhere but Fiorentina really, but MLS was in the mix for a while.
Such talk died down after Gomez was loaned out to Besiktas in Turkey's top flight - and the forward revived his reputation: finishing the 2015-16 as the Turkish Super Lig's top scorer and helping his club to its first title in seven years. And Gomez has since drifted back into the thinking of his national team, scoring a couple of goals in Germany's ongoing run in Euro 2016.