Bruno's individual brilliance and Pogba's wantaway form has papered over the cracks quite a bit. Without that, we'd be flailing somewhere down around 6th or 8th place. This squad is not robust at all. The team as a whole is pathetically poor, to be quite honest, and is saved time and time again by individualism. As soon as that dried up (Pogba injured, Bruno's form dipping), we've been back to mid-table form and painfully unattractive football.
I'm not at all convinced that Ole gets much credit for Bruno's performances, and certainly not for Pogba who blatantly just wanted to advertise himself to prospective buyers. The things we actually know the manager is responsible for - team cohesion, tactics, player selection, etc. - have been resoundingly unimpressive. We play like a team that doesn't train at all.
Most weeks it's like watching a national team's first game in the qualifiers for a tournament, when players who haven't seen eachother since last year suddenly have to work together. Well-coached teams know where their teammates are, what they'll do, where to place a pass in order to execute a sequence of play that was drilled into them in training. We don't do that at all. Players are constantly passing to nobody, caught off-side, stuck with the ball against three opponents because noone is available to pass to.
We have some very good players on the team, but they aren't playing well together. With a select few exceptions, they're playing at 75% of what we've previously seen that they're capable of. Moments of individual brilliance have saved us time and time again, and when those don't happen, it's a dependable 0-0 affair. In all the aspects of the game that the manager is responsible for, we're comically awful. We've had so few games under Ole where the team added up to the sum of its parts.