Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has admitted that Manchester United may struggle to sign their transfer targets in January.
United have had a mixed start to the season and are currently 10 points adrift of the top four, although they have a game in hand on most of the teams above them.
“It is not about ‘x’ amount of money [we have to spend], it is about who do we think will be good for the club in the long-term, not just three or four months,” the United manager told reporters.
“Probably not because that is the thing – it is in January,” he continued when asked whether it would be easy to sign key targets in the mid-season window.
“Not many clubs want to sell players that they would otherwise want to keep in January. Maybe one or two could be a loan deal but that is not a big money thing, it is just to help the team. But we are getting players back and we are looking at what can be available for us.”
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