I'm surprised to see how many of you rate the squad so highly that you think we could have rotated much more and still be in top 4/ 2ed. What are the players you think should have had much more game time? Mata? Tuanzebe after the disaster in Turkey, Jones, Williams, James, Matic? With the exception of DVB that takes his time to adapt i would not trust any of them against any PL opposition.
People do overate our squad a bit. Its not so much always a depth thing as a balance/quality thing.
We have 5 centre backs. 4 of them just aren't very good. Period. And even of those 3 of them are weetabix legs who arent even fit. So you have Lindelof and Maguire. Hence why Maguire has had to play every single match for 2 years. Without him we have dumb and dumber at centre half if they are lucky enough to be fit. Look at city. They rotate Dias and Laporte with Stones. Everyone knows Stones ain't very good but he always has a really good centre half next to him. We’ve been awful without HM.
We have Matic who cant play every week and then MCFred who only function together. This means shoehorning Pogba into the team at DM or LW. Hes crap in both positions. We need a holding midfielder who can play alone so Pogba and Bruno can both play ahead of him. Or we can play mcfred with one of pogba and bruno.
We dont have a rw player. James, rashford, greenwood have all struggled there. Diallo is a few years away.
So for all of the above reasons, its why everyone with an ounce of idea says we are screaming out for a RW, CB and CDM. If they are all of starting quality suddenly the squad takes on much better balance and theres quality on the bench and no square pegs in round holes.
Tactics and management and whatever is another argument.