No we are better than Liverpool in more than squad Suraz Henderson (starting 11) and Sterling squad would improve us but who else would you take genuinely. You cite Carrick but Liverpool midfield has an average Joe Allan and Lucas and then an ageing Gerrard not exactly brilliant. I'd take McCarthy over any them now and he's apparently our worse target. Coutino over Kagawa or Mata? Evra or Flannigan Johnston or Rafael? Centre backs are an area both teams are wanting. Sturrage or Welbeck? Mingolet or DDG? No we are bit ahead of Liverpool but we were devoid of confidence this season and it showed but the season before we were about 30 points ahead of them and next season I'd expect us to be a good 10 points above them.
Liverpool has an average midfield yet Joe Allen and Lucas are better than anything we have apart from Carrick. Gerrard is better than Carrick and they have Henderson who vastly improved this season. Their midfield in both 1st XI and backups is much better than ours. Ours is truly, truly awful.
I'd have Coutinho over Kagawa despite being a massive Shinji fan, he's simply more productive and better suited to this league. Mata is obviously top but will he fit into our team? Certainly didn't last season and now we've got LVG we've got no natural place for him.
Evra is done, I'd rather have Flanagan, at least he actually defends.
Rafael is constantly injured and nowhere near as good as people think. Johnson is also terrible but at least he's reliable enough to play.
Sturridge or Welbeck? Are you actually serious thinking there's a debate there? This is Sturridge who scored 21 league goals this year, has scored 35 goals in total in a year and a half for Liverpool versus Welbeck who struggles to score 10 a season in a good year.
Obviously I'd rather have David De Gea but I did say we were better in goal than they were.
You're massively deluded if you think we're much better than them and this is with me admitting than they'll not have anywhere near as good a year next season.
People need to stop citing the fact we won the league in 2012-13 with the same squad. It was essentially a one-off freak reaction to City finally buying their title in 2011-12. SAF was livid with the way we lost it that year and resolved to get us so fired up we played out of our skins (we weren't even that good in most matches), Only he could've pulled off that title. We still had gaping, gaping holes in midfield. Remember the likes of Southampton outplaying us home and away yet through sheer determination and force of will we got results because Fergie wouldn't let us lose. For most of that team it was the last hurrah. It also helped that City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal were all way below this seasons levels so it looked far more dominant from us than we actually were.
This season just past was always going to happen even if it wouldn't have been so desperately pathetic under a better manager than Moyes. Ferdinand, Vidic and Evra finally showed they were completely done (even if Vida recovered a bit of form near the end). Smalling, Jones, Evans and Rafael are all nowhere near as good as people think and continue to get injured constantly. The midfield is pathetic, as it was then but at least we had Carrick playing as well as he possibly could. Sadly his legs have gone now, he's over the hill and it's not simply just a confidence thing. People need to seriously realise this.
You factor in that the wingers actually weren't any better in 2012-13 just the whole team was and we were constantly rescued by either RVP or Rooney, neither of which could do that this year because them not really being injured back then was the luckiest thing in the world and they were obviously going to get injuries this season.
It's almost as if you didn't manage to catch what was on television last night.
