Manchester United : Fergie In No Rush To Strengthen Man Utd's Arsenal

For some odd reason, I’m still laughing at the headline "Man Utd's Arsenal".

Well, it relates to Sir Alex Ferguson saying he is in no hurry to strengthen the Manchester United squad. Ferguson expects the end of Euro 2008 to herald a busy spell in the transfer market, but insists Manchester United will not be rushing to spend.

The United manager has targets, but after a season in which his team won the Barclays Premier League and Champions League, he is confident in the quality they already possess and could settle on just one new arrival.

"The European Championship derails transfer activity," he said. "Nothing really happens when the championships are on. 

"Obviously, now that is all over, people settle down. Managers are back at their clubs and you can get some dialogue now if they are interested, but I wouldn't think we would buy any more than one player.

"We are looking at one or two things."

Ferguson will continue to monitor movement in the market but does not see many transfer dealings being straightforward.   "People think it's easy to buy players nowadays, but it's not because money plays a big part first of all. Clubs with ambitions don't want to sell their best players, so it's not as easy as you'd think and we tend to look for younger ones.

"We want to have a good look and then we'll go in for the one or two players that we need" Ferguson concluded.  Sir Alex also played down rumours linking Cristiano Ronaldo and Louis Saha away from Old Trafford, saying "We've already let Pique leave, but why change a European Championship winning team?”

Manchester United are being linked to Real Madrid's duo of Robinho and Sergio Ramos in the event that Cristiano Ronaldo leaves for the Bernabeau.  Lukas Podolski, Bastian Schweinstegier, Dimitar Berbatov, and Klaas Jan Huntelaar are the other names linked with a move to Old Trafford.