I am not saying otherwise. I said they are not as good players on paper as Ivanovic, Bosingwa or Essien.
If it wasn't for Sir Alex, Rooney would be jailmate with Mario Balotelli.
Ivanovic and Bosingwa are top players? Vidic, Rio and Evra are probably the best in the EPL in their positions, the other players in defence aren't as good but are mostly young players who are either in their first real season (Rafael, Smalling) or don't have the opportunities to play many games in a row (Evans).
I fail to see how you can say they were worse?
I personally don't rate many of Chelsea's squad at all, their best player by far is Essien when he's on form, but bar their first team there squad is very weak.
And City is just a carbon copy of Chelsea back in 2005/2006 when they could of fielded 2 PL team, they'll never keep all those players happy and sooner or later sell off a few of them.
I'm happy with the Man Utd squad, obviously we need some new players in, and its one of the weakest squad's that United have had in years, but its by no means worse than Chelsea or City, hence why we're first.
It's only really United's midfield which is lacking.