I think this is the biggest thing to come out of this. You are right. This season and period has shown us that Mourinho was completely right in his assessment of the squad. We have poor passing, first touch, dribbling, no key passes, poor crossing and we are even average at recovering the ball. All we have going for us is that we have a good defence and an attack that has the speed and creativity of pogba to counter attack. You take him off the team, and even that is a shell of itself. We have been poor at creating chances for 6 years now. Manager after manager has come here and faced the same situations. I believe people put too much responsibility on managers and not enough on players. our attacks are blunt, have not movement or sense of awareness. I don't believe those things are on the manager. I remember many mourinho teams having them. We just have unintelligent players. Some are inexperienced, others are just not good enough. Let's be honest, in the past, what separated the players in our successful teams and the other teams were the touches, craft and movement of their attacks. Cole, yorke and van nistelrooy were able to take passes on their chest and control difficult balls in the air, even to the point of using it to create chances for others. Keane beckham, scholes, and giggs could all pass in between the lines, make runs, and provide sparks of creative genius. They were versatile players, all of whom had the skill and talent to play in any of the midfield and full back positions if called upon, as they had the skill and knowledge to perform. These days we have players calling themselves wingers who can't even play on the other side. midfielders who only know how to play one specific role and strikers who cannot create chances for themselves, make runs or even control the balls they are given. They have a variety of skills. The current set are limited, mostly average mid to lower table players who need to be spoon-fed before they can actually do anything. The sooner we recognize this, and turn all of our front 6 bar mctominay ( who is learning on the job) pogba ( who may be sold anyway) into squad players and completely rebuild regardless of salary, the sooner we get back to who we are.