De Gea made more passes to RVP than Carrick, Cleverly, Young, Welbeck, Kagawa
Utd pretty much need a whole new back 6, imo.
-Rafael is decent but he always seems to be injured so a decent RB needs to be signed.
-Rio is so past it it's not funny
-Vidic is ok but on the decline and leaving anyway.
-Evra is alright going forward but is another on the decline.
Others like Evans, Smalling, to me are, at best, backup CB's for a top team. Jones could become a quality CB but he's another one that seems to get injured quite a lot.
-Carrick is 33 in the summer and should really be 3rd choice, from next season onwards certainly. He's another who is only going to decline and pickup more injuries.
-Fellaini doesn't look good enough to me to be part of a midfield 2. He fancies himself a DM but he's not one. Too slow, not enough defensive nous and doesn't have the brain or passing ability for a deep lying playmaker. He was perfect for Everton in the hole and he'd be perfect for a West Ham or Palace. He's probably only worth keeping as a sub for when you're desperate for a goal and just lumping the ball into the box.
Giggs is obviously finished and Cleverly is a player for the likes of Hull despite the brief promise he showed at the start of our title-winning season.
The frontline is fine, tho RVP is only going to decline and be more injury prone. He could go on another season or 2 but as good a player as he is I wouldn't fancy him as my main striker.
Valencia and Young are ok as backups.
In my estimation, the makeup of the squad is just as much to blame as Moyes is. You can get away with 2 or 3, maybe 4, players in the squad being on the decline but utd have too many all at the same time. I do not buy this "we were champions last year so it's all Moyes' fault", football
can change quickly, especially when alot of your players are declining at the same time. You might look at 1 player and say "he hasn't declined that much" but add 5, 6 or 7+ important players together and the sum total is quite large. Football at the top level is all about the margins (as they say) and let's not forget that Utd weren't anything special last year. RVP turned poor performances into wins time and again.
Cleverly is a bit of a scapegoat for Utd fans on the pitch. Off it, Moyes has been made a bit of a scapegoat by Ferguson. You can look at the stats and point out the negative points swing etc. but looking at the squad chances are that was always going to be case. Could a fit RVP have made up for some of the decline and had you in and around Liverpool? IMO, yes, but that's the gamble Ferguson took to go out on a high.