Smalling is a joke. Rojo seems okay but the returns are early.

Evans is joke-ish at times but better than Smalling. Phil Jones is good. Edit: Luke Shaw will give some quality.

and it pretty much stops there. sad to say dudes past their prime like Vidic, Evra and the lot seem dreamy in comparison.

STILL...the people bemoaning (or laughing in the case of MU "haters") that we didn't buy any defense need to chill. The attack (esp. midfield) needed fixing MORE than the defense IMO and you gotta spend $$$$ when there's no CL. And on attack the squad looks great. Herrera, Blind and Di Maria all look awesome.

Now it's just a case of a you don't know what you've got til it's gone and we HAD to focus on the attack based on last season not knowing that all of the guys left in defense would suck ass. So now we gotta go buy some defense in the winter. But what left the squad looks so appealing in hindsight.