A lot of fans don't appreciate what a good midfield is.
The beauty and genius of so many midfielders is to read the game. Therefore a lot of their work is done off the ball.
And this goes unnoticed by so many fans.
For example: Our fan base was giving out about our midfield ever since we lost Roy Keane in 2005 right up until Fergie retired in 2013. They kept saying 'our midfield isn't good enough', 'we have no world class midfielders', 'Fletcher is shit', 'We need a Roy Keane-type', 'moan, moan, moan, moan.' For years!
Yet - the midfielders between 2005 - 2013 turned out to be our best midfield of all time, because that was the most successful period in our entire 140-year history.
That midfield won five league titles in those seven seasons and got us to three Champions League finals.
Some fans were still giving out. Even today, you still read 'fans' complaining that Fergie never sorted the midfield after Keane's exit.
They clearly don't understand what it takes to create a great midfield.
In any one game, any player only ever has the ball at his feet for 2% of the ninety minutes; yet fans will ONLY judge what he does during that 2%.. they miss the entirety of the other 98%. And that other 98% is what is key for midfielders and defenders.
Our midfield is perfectly balanced at the moment.
We have three positions:
A No.6
A No.8
A No.10
For each of those options, we have
No.6 McTominay, Matic, Garner
No.8 Pobga, Fred, Pereira
No.10 Sanchez, Mata, Lingard, Gomes
Paul Pogba is arguably the best midfielder in the world, and people are giving out that our midfield isn't good enough.