With Rooney, Schneiderlin and Herrera in midfield then? I dont buy it for a second!
Its quite telling that Guardiola said he was unable to play the football he wanted due to his fullbacks in his first season. I would argue Kolarov is at least as good as Ashley Young.
Guardiola had a backbone of Fernandinho, D. Silva, Otamendi, Kompany and Aguero when he arrived. Man Utd had Smalling, Jones, Blind, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger, Herrera, Rooney and Mata.
Some could argue that Martial and Rashford was as exciting as Sterling, and that Pep would have made them better than Mourinho. But at Man Utd he would have to do a very expensive overhaul of the backbone of our team (just like Mourinho). It would unable him to bring in fullbacks and wingers like B. Silva, Sane, Mendy, Walker and Danilo. And it would be difficult to spend as much on defenders as he has on Laporte and Stones (both more expensive than Lindelof and Bailly).
Pep is a great coach, but it is difficult to argue how he would have done with Man Utd because he has never been in charge of a club in a similar state as Man Utd in 2016.