I'd love to see Henderson and co doing as well as they are doing with Liverpool in a team surrounded by Jones, Smalling, Lingard, Welbeck MK2 and Young.
If only they'd realize where our issues are.
We literally have:
- Shaw + the likes of Jones, Smalling, Rojo, Tony, Young as fecking defenders. Other than Smalling none of them would start for
Everton, with Shaw being the exception.
- Paul, Matic, Scott, Andreas, Fred and a few youngsters. The only two that would normally start games in the EPL are Paul, Matic(
Everton), Fred.
- Lingz, Martial, Rom, Rashford, Mata. Other than Martial who could start at Arsenal, none of them would start at City, Lpool, Spurs or Chelsea. (3-4 years ago Tony, Rash and Rom would've had a chance, but you can't see them spearheading teams like City, Spurs and Lpool these days, not even fecking close).
So we kinda have DDG, Paul, Fred, Lindelof and Shaw, the only semi consistent players in a team that should, at least, challenge for top 4. Fred is a question, Paul might leave, Tony/Rashford/Rom are not UTD quality and should be bench options.
If you sit on the above you'll kinda understand why not even Messi would look good in this team and that the job ahead is massive. Pogba should not be apologizing for playing with shit players even if he's decent only for half a season. The club should be apologizing for having the quality standards of a siberian prison.