Levy holds the credit cards so the signings ultimately come down to him. The team played some good football yesterday and that's a positive, despite the result.
Even Vidic struggled when he first arrived in the Premier League, Vertonghen might have been fine but it is a risk to play him. Caulker went to the Olympics and then international duty with England so AVB hasn't much of a chance to work with him, you can disagree with his decision if you want but you can surely see it's not without reason. Oh and before it's mentioned, we didn't have much choice with Sandro, it was him or Jenas out of our match squad.
And finally, Huddlestone. All we know is that he's been shouting his mouth off on Twitter and was upset at not being picked to play, nothing shocking there from a football player. The rest is your opinion trying to connect the dots in the dark. We have no idea why Huddlestone was left out, it might be because he's ignoring a diet he's been put on again, training poorly or simply not fit enough. I thought Huddlestone looked in good nick in preseason, considering he'd been out for a year, but I could still see Huddlestone struggle to make the 90 considering the amount of work Sandro and Livermore had to do. Assuming the worst about AVB's choices isn't giving him a fair chance.
...fair do's I'll let you have that, but you see my point. 
