Manchester United legend Roy Keane is impressed by their summer signings.
United may have lostEdwin van der Sar, Paul Scholes, Gary Neville, John O'Shea and Wes Brown this year.
But Irishman Keane dismisses talk of Fergie's squad lacking enough experience to retain the title — and points to the quality of youngsters such as Chris Smalling and Danny Welbeck as reason to think United will not be weakened this season.
He told The Sun: "United have bought well. People talk about losing experience and I appreciate that Van der Sar, Neville and Scholes have all retired.
"But they have good young players coming through — and Wayne Rooney can play better than he did last season.
"When you look at the players they have left behind, they have Vidic, Rio, Darren Fletcher — these are all international players. And Giggsy is still there, too.
"United don't let players go unless they know they have players coming through to replace them. Ashley Young and Phil Jones are good players, Chris Smalling is coming through and Danny Welbeck is a good player coming back after being on loan at Sunderland last season.
"And when the older lads come to the end in four or five years, you'll have the likes of Jones and Smalling to step in with five or six years experience behind them.
"It's like a machine.
"You can talk all you like about other teams getting stronger but, for me, United have got stronger as well.
"They're going to do the business. Of all the teams, if one has the balance right I believe it's United."
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