I don't know how anyone looks at their squad and thinks we're on a par. So many options compared to us. A £60m winger that barely gets a game.
Tbf, Lampard is making them all play really well. Not to say he's a great manager or whatever, but whatever it is, he suits them right now and is letting them play to their strengths and they're thriving for now. If Ole was capable of doing that here, it would look very different (though lacking the depth and balance IMO, while we have more of the extra star quality in certain areas).
A similar breakdown for us:
GK: De Gea/Romero
RB: Wan Bissaka/Dalot
CB: Maguire/Lindelof/Tuanzebe/Jones
LB: Shaw/Young
CDM: McTominay/Matic
CM: Pogba/Fred
CAM: Lingard/Mata
Wings: James/Rashford/Pereira/Chong
ST: Martial/Greenwood
Don't think there's any problem with the back 5 in terms of starters and depth tbh. Shaw of course gets injured a lot, but Young is fine as depth as he's shown and past him, Williams has shown potential. The midfield though is where we start to see the problems. Fred has been woeful, so doesn't look usable whatsoever. Matic and Mata are both very pointless these days as well, while Lingard and McTominay probably shouldn't be starters. Signing Maddison and a starter DM would sort that out IMO, but should've been done last summer. The wings are then woeful. James again should probably have come in to the season being depth to start off with, with us buying a starting right winger, and then having the rest rotate for that last wing depth spot is fine. Then striker we really need 1 more person there to be capable of fighting with Martial to be starter (and to be a regular scorer).
It's probably a year too soon for all of Greenwood, Gomes, Chong, Garner and Williams. Ole is excited by their potential, and fair enough, but none of them are ready for premier league football IMO and all would have benefited greatly from at least a year in the championship. Even if they go on loan from January for half a season to develop as players. Chong needs probably 18 months out on loan, Gomes could do a full season, Garner full next season, Williams full next season, and Greenwood at least just the half season. They need to go on loan where they'll play regularly enough at a lower level so they can adapt, learn the responsibilities of playing every week and growing just like how all of Chelsea's youth has now done and Tuanzebe did for us.