Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag is eager to secure a striker during the upcoming summer transfer window.
Initially, the Dutchman thought that the team’s current options for scoring goals “should have been sufficient.”
Nonetheless, with only seven games left in the Premier League, United has scored just 45 goals, the lowest among the top 10 teams.
Asked at a news conference how vital it will be to bring a proven scorer to Old Trafford this summer, Ten Hag said: “I think it would help.”
Ideally, he desires to have more than one formidable contender for each position on the team.
Ten Hag added: “You need more options. You need double positioning in every position.
“Some positions we didn’t have the choices this season – the striker position, the left-back position – and that has a negative impact on the results.”
United, who will face Bournemouth on Saturday, secured the signing of Denmark forward Rasmus Hojlund from Atalanta for £72m on a five-year deal last August.
In his debut season, the 21-year-old has emerged as the club’s top scorer, finding the net 13 times in 34 appearances across all competitions.
Meanwhile, England striker Marcus Rashford has scored eight goals in 38 games, while France international Anthony Martial, who has been sidelined since undergoing groin surgery in January, has scored twice in 19 appearances.
“In this plan we constructed we should have had enough goals,” Ten Hag said.
“You count on goals from Rashford – last season he scored 30. You count on goals from Martial – in my first season he played very well, and also in very important games he had a high impact on our performances.
“And then bringing a goalscorer like Rasmus Hojlund in, it should have been enough goals.”