So are younguns so much worse than Chelsea's or its something else?
They look far more balanced tbh. Abraham is a natural #9 and is looking excellent, age wise is similar to Rashford and Martial though but just had his experience in the championship. They have 2 natural wingers in Hudson Odoi and Willian, whereas full strength we have Martial up top and Rashford/James as our wingers probably which isn't bad but Rashford doesn't really look a natural anywhere right now while James is still raw and more natural on the left I'd say.
Midfield they have a very nice balance with Jorginho and Kante with Mount as a #10 who can score goals, while we have Pogba who just doesn't do well in a double pivot, but we have no other real midfield options. McTominay is decent, but we really need a holding midfielder that can pass it around there if we want it to look balanced and to push Pogba up to the 10.
Defensively we look much better IMO when full strength, but of course when we have a bunch of fullbacks out it's going to hurt.
Depth wise they are definitely better though, as we have 18 years olds as our depth (or just plain shite players), whereas they have different striker options with Batschuayi and Giroud, they have Pulisic for wing depth, they have loftus-cheek, kovacic and barkley for midfield depth, etc. Their defence is going to be a problem all year I think (also partially due to system) but their midfield and attack has a really nice balance to it. If we want a similar balance then we need James to get comfortable on the right, Rashford on the left, Martial top, push Pogba up and have a quality ball playing holding midfielder to play next to McTominay. Only way to get our team balanced IMO, and even then it's reliant on fitness which isn't great for us.