I disagree that the league is harder its much easier than previous years. The standard is shocking. Yes we have our worst squad but so do the other top teams. The league was there for the taking as seen with Liverpool nearly winning it and Spurs coming close plus Leicster showing that we could have easily won the league. I thought Rojo would have done well as he was in a team that got to the wc final. Darmain is a seasoned italian international and Depay was being hailed as the best young talent in Europe. Bastian was a great player and still only 31 and Morgan was one of the best midfielders in the league over the last 2 seasons. I think you are way over stating saying it would be a miracle for us to challenge or win the league! Why not we are not that far away after a shite season we could easily turned around 3-4 games in a good season with this squad plus we have been unlucky with long term injuries.
How can you expect a team with such a less winning mentality players to be able to win the league? I could understand if City and Chelsea were expected to win it because they have more players with a winning mentality. And the others top teams have a better squad than they ever had in their last 10 years.
Arsenal have a better squad than they had in their last 3 years, Spurs have the best squad they ever had in the last 10 years, Everton have the best squad they ever had in the last 10 years, West Ham have the best squad they ever had in the last 10 years and so does Leicester. The league has been much more competitive than previous seasons means harder to win it. There are more teams are challenging the top 4 now and the match every weeks are not as easy as before.
You thought Rojo would have done well because you were deluded with his country Argentina got to WC final. What happened to Kleberson when we signed him? Even Sir Alex admitted that he was deluded with his performance in world cup in his book.
Darmian was seasoned Italian but to be true I am sure most of us have never heard about him before.
I watched Memphis a few games only last season and to be honest I don't get his hype. He was clearly still raw as he losses so many ball easily even at world cup and PSV. People were deluded with his number of goals. Fair enough if you think he was called as the best young talent in Europe but we can't be expected to win the league by signing one best young talent. He is just a young inexperience player. Not Robin van Persie!!
Bastian and Morgan are midfield. But look at our forwards and defenders first, we lost so many of them at the start of season and we replaced them with inexperience and unproven players. Being deluded with having Bastian and Morgan in midfield and think it's enough to win the league.
Injuries aren't a new things in EPL and we should have expected that.