Manchester United have added minimal firepower to help them continue their push for a top-four place in the 2022-23 Premier League season, having signed a backup goalkeeper in Jack Butland, and striker Wout Weghorst, both on loan, during the January winter window.
Opening up on their low spending this winter, the club's manager Erik Ten Hag has said that signing players is not only in his hands, and the team's hierarchy should use every strike when the opportunity to get better arises.
“In the coming days, should we have an opportunity, I would go for it but it's not only up to me. I think that always has to be the approach at this club. Every day you have to get better so if there are opportunities to get better then you have to strike, that's my approach. I'm looking, doing research, I have an idea and have profiles to strengthen the squad,” Ten Hag told Sky Sports.
The club started off on a poor note under the regime of Ten Hag, but their form since the resumption of the FIFA World Cup has seen a marked improvement. A lot of this can be put down to the form of Marcus Rashford, who has scored 10 goals in as many games since returning from the World Cup.
"It's obvious Marcus at this moment is in really good shape, really good form, from day to day, training to training, game to game, routines are coming more in,” Ten Hag said about his in-form striker.
He is also pleased with the frontline that his team currently possess, which gives him a positing feeling, "The front line also gives me a positive feeling and is getting stronger. They can then take more benefit from each other. In the first season, we had many problems with the front line. Often we had games we didn't have players who were 100 per cent physically and mentally fit. Now I think it is much more,” said Ten Hag.
