Maybe Lindelof as a future half of a "great partnership". That's about it.
Every position is weaker than even the LVG era.
Don't agree with that unless you talk about form. I think the only weaker area is that Valencia and Herrera will go now. Valencia was one of our best and most important players under LVG and Herrera when he has played has often done really well from us. We need another right back and midfielder in 100%
Our midfield now with Pogba, Fred and Mctominay is better than the crap we had with LVG even if Fellaini did quite well at times. Yes Carrick did alright on his last leg, but we knew we needed to replace him.
Bastian and Schneiderlein pure crap signings and we needed to get them out.
Rashford and Martial should be better now. They have not improved much, but still do not see them as worse options. Although we had higher hopes for them back then to improve.
Lukaku is a big uppgrade on Rooney back then even if he has been poor.
Mata, Young and De gea has declined a lot so it is a big problem although Mata/Young were never super important. I hope that De Gea can find form again. If not then that is probably the biggest decline for us.
Phil Jones was injured a lot back then and still is. Smalling is probably slightly better now. Lindelöf better than Blind. Shaw slightly better now. Rojo equally bad these days.
I think overall we got a better squad now. Not having a De Gea in form makes our defense seem weaker though.