i dont think anyone can have anything against loeb hes the quickest rally driver out there on the majority of surfaces (snow and finnish gravel to name to) but on tarmac hes in a class of his own and on gravel hes as quick as marcus, hes also annoyingly consistant, although this year he has made a number of errors which are most unlike him.
WRC is reeling from a loss of a number of drivers over the past few years- burns, mcrae, martin, meaning that with marcus' retirement at the end of the year there is no top flight driver to consistantly take the fight to loeb in each and every rally. mikko is best of the rest in this respect but can only really challenge for wins on a number of rallys, (sweden, finland etc) which will more than likely mean that seb will walk it next year. there seems to be a problem in that there arnt many drives available and this shows in the lack of up and coming talent right now to battle with loeb, in a few years maybe latvala will be up there but who else, atkinson is quick but throws it off all the time, sordo is very quick on tarmac but doesnt exactly set the gravel alight on the rough, theres a large contingent of up and coming talent such as wilks, pG andersson, aava, mikkelson, higgins, all who wont freature for a number of years unless they get picked up very quickly by the top teams