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Manchester United’s Louis van Gaal targets at least two more signings

Louis van Gaal
The Manchester United manager, Louis van Gaal, here overseeing training in the US, wants to sign at least two more players. Photograph: Ted S Warren/AP

Louis van Gaal has said that he wants to make at least two more signings this summer. The Manchester United manager has so far brought in four players in Memphis Depay, Matteo Darmian, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Morgan Schneiderlin at a cost of about £75m.

“We are not finished yet, I think,” Van Gaal told MUTV. “It is what I have said already in many press conferences. We need a balance in the selection and I think we still need to improve at least two positions and we shall do that when it is possible.

“But we shall only buy when the player can give a contribution to our level. And, of course, that is in the eyes of our staff, but I have to have confidence that he can cope with the rhythm of the Premier League.”

Van Gaal is keen to sign a striker, with Paris Saint-Germain’s Edinson Cavani his No1 target. He also wants the defender Sergio Ramos from Real Madrid as part of any deal that takes David de Gea to the Spanish club, though Real’s manager, Rafa Benítez, has said Ramos is not for sale.

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