Fred and McTominay now appear to be a serviceable midfield. Not world beating and not very strong for the top 6 but good enough. The problem is if one of them goes down we are left with Pereira - he hasn't shown he is up to it. Then we need to work out how to break down lesser teams.
A world class striker and central midfield player, plus a fit and firing Pogba would leave us competing for second this season. Liverpool are a class above unfortunately. Finding world class players who actually fit your team isn't easy to do though.
Such a good game all around, maybe a lack of passing quality at times but when you are defending most of that game that saps the legs. No one had a bad game and tactics and game management top quality.
Yeah I actually don't have an issue with any of the starting 11 being part of the longer term squad of 16-18 that you need throughout the season. Definite lack of depth at CM my only real concern, maybe another right winger but Williams, Tuanzebe, Fosu-Mensah, Dalot, Greenwood can all be brought through to compete. Still lots of decisions at CB to be made.
Not sure we need a world class striker. An experienced reliable striker to give rests to Martial, James, Rashford would be better. Manzukic type.