Manchester United do not need “superstar” signings at the end of the season to become title challengers, according to caretaker boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
His words, “I think it is about who we’ve got here,” “It is not about signing ‘X’ amount of players, it has to be the right one and one who fits, the personality has to fit with the team.
“It is not just buy a superstar and that will fix things and suddenly we go from challenging to being top four and be champions.”
“If you look at the players, the age of them, they’re young and they’ve got plenty of development in them,” said Solskjaer. “If every single player can improve by one or two percent.
“We also need some experienced players to stay and step up and really become the leaders. Paul [Pogba] now is.
“They’re at that age where we expect them to take that responsibility and not just be a young boy that floats around.”
“You’ve got to catch up the other teams ahead of us, especially City, Liverpool but now Tottenham,” “Obviously it’s three teams who have been far ahead but we’ve beaten Tottenham so we know that we’re capable of that but we need the consistency.
“Two years’ time is long enough, but also short enough, to say that we’ve got the possibility to make a big difference in our preparation, in everything.
“Next year, you always hope, of course. I came in from Molde, they were 10th in 2010, and in 2011 we won the league, so you can never say never.
“If we don’t dream and we don’t have that vision of where we are going then we will just falter. So for us, or me, I am only used to this club challenging for trophies so that is where I see us.”
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