Upamecano and de Ligt over Varane and Martinez is wild.
Coman is your best winger, Sane or Gnabry are meh, so I take Coman and Rashford.
Kimmich starts but I'd take Casemiro over Goretzka.
Mueller is past it, Bruno over him.
Shaw is probably better than Davies.
Bayern were lucky that BVB shat the bed, but their true level as shown in Europe is very poor.
The gulf in clubs is not that wide imo
Sorry for my belatedness, with the 5 post cap you sometimes just forget the forum for a few days.
Sommer/Neuer, though we seem to be losing Sommer, and you no longer have de gea, so this one is no longer fair with Neuer, or maybe Nübel (if we even get to keep him) vs Henderson.
Upamecano was perhaps our best defender for a good part of the season, and especially over the two games vs PSG in the CL. De light needs no introduction and was a lot more consistent. I see an intensity in martinez that I like, and I see an injury record from varane which I don't like. Would still have those two, and now with Kim in the mix I'm even more sure about keeping the defense. But people tend to remember upa for his feck-ups, which is somewhat understandable when its at the biggest stage.
I can see Casemiro over Goretzka, but we didn't always play with them as a duo in midfield as Goretzka was injured a bit and never really recovered. Kimmich can play anywhere, and I really would not mind him playing as a CDM, which he did at times to allow goretzka to be more offensive, or even musiala in a few games where him and müller had more of a free role with kimmich as sole holder. Thats what I liked about nagelsmann at times, it was risky but a lot of fun to watch the interchanging of positions in midfield.
Raumdeuter Müller is never past it, as shown whenever a new coach comes in and tries to take him out of the team. Kovac learned that the hard way.
Both injury prone, but I would never take Shaw over Davies. Just look at the infamous 8-2 win over barcelona what he can do offensively, and recoveries defensively (watch the entire game if you can, not just highlights, to see the defensive recoveries).
Wings I would rather have Sané and Gnabry, though rashford is very good and is probably the closest one and plays a CF way better than gnabry does when he was forced into that position.
And of course up top I would rather have Choupo-GOATing rather than Wout. Though we both are in dire need of a real striker.
Hope any of this makes sense, am fecking tired after a 12 hour shift.