Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho admits he will try to sign ‘two or three’ players next summer
Portuguese boss was coy over who he will try to sign in January but admitted he wants replacements in the summer with 'two or three' players set to leave
JOSE MOURINHO has outlined Manchester United's summer transfer plans but remains coy over any January deals.
The Portuguese boss put pressure on the board this week by claiming the Red Devils can't compete with rivals Manchester City in the league because of a lack of cash to spend in the transfer windows.
United spent just shy of £150million in landing Romelu Lukaku, Nemanja Matic and defender Victor Lindelof in the summer.
And now he has plans to add another "two or three" additions to his squad at the end of the season.
Mourinho also admitted that two or three players will also leave Old Trafford with Michael Carrick, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marouane Fellaini all coming to the end of the their contracts.
Reported by Manchester Evening News, he said: "I think next season we are going to get two or three more players and also lose two or three, if you can try to anticipate you can more or less see it is normal that this is going to happen.
"It’s not going to happen that there is a dramatic change and a dramatic improvement but with time, step by step, with some balance, we have to do it.
"The club invested a lot of money, the problem is not the money we invest, the problem is the money that others invest and it is the problem that others with better squads, with better stability, with more options, they keep investing and that’s the only problem.
"Because for example, we bought a striker in the summer, a very good striker, but that good striker was to replace Zlatan [Ibrahimovic], it was not to be him and Zlatan in the best of their form from day one.
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"We signed Lindelof, we didn’t have Rojo. We had problems, so when we are signing players in the last two years, it's to replace people.
"If next summer we are going to sign a midfield player, it’s to replace Michael Carrick and he is a phenomenal player that this season couldn’t give us nothing at all.
"He is in the end of his career so if next summer we buy a midfield player, it’s not to improve our squad, it’s to replace Michael Carrick. So to improve our squad in the midfield we would need to buy two."