Looking at both games:
Given, Warnock, Makoun, Bannan are looking good
Collins and Dunne still look iffy. Selling Carlos could be an error. I'd have prefered to ship out Dunne and Collins and get someone like Scott Dann to partner Carlos.
Delph, Fonz, Ireland, Albrighton, Gaby have a lot of work to do to even look like they're close to form.
The rest just need the players around them to improve to help them out.
If the midfield doesn't get sorted, there's not much chance of doing much better than last season.
As it stands at the moment, this is how I'd have the team to start the season:
Young------Cuellar----Collins------Warnock
Albrighton----Petrov---Makoun----N'zogbia
---------------Bent------Heskey-------------