Understood your point before and the situation is not comparable.
Fergie never needed Worlds best at every position to build successful teams but he did have great to very good then few average players unless you're telling me our great teams consisted of a striker (who couldn't control the ball, couldn't run with the ball/ couldn't pass), Wingers (who couldn't shoot/cross), Midfielders (who couldn't pass, play under pressure) Defence (Stam/Bruce/Rio/Vidic to Smalling/jones/Victor/Young...hmmm, lacked composure, couldn't pass, shat them self under pressure) then Fergie was better than god.
"we have seen what the current squad is capable of when they put their collective minds to it. If the players delivered that same level of commitment over the course of a 38 game season, we would absolutely be in with a shout of winning the title." (from your original post) << Even Fergie wouldn't have been able to beat city's 90+ points total, with our current squad and you think our squad of mediocre players could perform over the course of the season because Fergie did it when he had some
great players followed by some very good players then few average players compared to our current mediocre players bar 3/4 good players.
Most of our good players would be considered mediocre/Decent players in Fergie's successful teams and they'd only play small number of games in which consistency can be easy to come but over the 38 games its the Talented players (Ronaldo/Rooney/VDS/Rio/Vidic/Scholes/Giggs not Anderson/Gibson/Saha) who will determine success or failure and at the moment our current squad is filled with Mediocre/Decent players IMO. What we saw earlier was our mediocre players performing over a certain number of games then completely falling off, if they didn't fall off then they wouldn't be considered mediocre players and sadly we have too many of those an not many quality players who can consistently deliver over 38 games.
Next season unless we add quality to our back line/midfield and striker/RW position (
), it will be the same level of consistency as this season where we'll play good for a while then completely fall off as our so called talented players aren't that good and our mediocre players will run out of steam, which is to be expected as they're not good enough and thats Regardless of who is managing them unless you're telling me city/pool have mediocre players bringing them success over the course of a season and not their better players.
When someone says "number of areas" it usually mean 3 or 4 and the players I listed included more than 3 or 4. Its nearly more than half the first team at the moment. oh and I didn't miss that just replied according to your post but to you "number of areas" means more than half of our team.