Also it’s quite a reach to say he had to replace them all when half of them barely played any football for us for a couple of season prior to ETH arriving. It’s really only Pogba, Ronaldo and DDG who had a meaningful role, and he was allowed to replace them both with very expensive signings of his choice (letting Ronaldo and DDG go being his decisions too).
I would not pretend that losing Bailly, Telles, Jones and Lingard was some major inconvenience.
And VDB we didn’t even lose, he’s still with us, just not good.