This is still the weakest manure team I can remember for years. I'd say they only have 4 european class players, Vidic, Wio, Evra & Rooney. The rest of the squad are either kids, pensioners or average-good premiership players. Their bench used to have Rooney, Tranny, Tevez etc on it at times, now it's looking like the City bench from last season where everyone on it has definitely less quality then the 1st team so he can't rely on bringing on "stars" to change a game.
They still, potentially have a class strikeforce with Shrek, Berbaflop and little Micky but one of those has to show he cares and another has to regain form and stay fit.
Midfield looks really weak (for the scum), Fletcher and Carrick are not really that better than a lot of PL CMs and they are definitely weaker there than Chelski, Arsenal & Liverpool. Nani, Valencia, Anderson, Park, Scholes and Giggs are average or old.
Their defence still looks strong in the first team (apart from right back) and VDS is old but without the class forwards and midfield in front of them I wonder how solid that defence is going to look if teams start to attack them and not keep 9 men behind the ball.
I think they will (probably) still be Top 4 but doubt they will win the league, especially if the invincible myth gets busted and teams actually go out to give them a game instead of defending for 90 minutes. A couple of long term injuries to shrek and/or one of the back 4 and I think they could end up in a EUFA spot.