Jose Mourinho is "confident" he will get one of the five new players he has asked Manchester United for.
The Portuguese aired his grievances over United's quiet summer - only three players, midfielder Fred, defender Diego Dalot and goalkeeper Lee Grant, have arrived - over the weekend indicating he'd asked the club's top brass for five players but only expected to get one.
Mourinho now seems to have reconciled himself with only getting one from that shortlist but insists that wouldn't be a disaster.
"I am confident I will get one, but I think two I am not going to get - which is not a drama," he told beIN Sports. "In every pre-season it happens the same, with every club, which is that the manager wants more.
"It's our nature, you always want more for your team, but then club decisions are different and normally you don't get what you want, which happened during all my career.
"So, if I get one player until the end of the market, that's fine."
United's second string were humbled by rivals Liverpool on Saturday evening with a number of the club's star players not yet back from their post-World Cup breaks.
Mourinho has called on those select few to cut short their holidays in a bid to get fit for the new season.
The home opener against Leicester is now only 11 days away and Mourinho says preparations are pretty much there.
"More or less, I know," he said when asked whether he knows his starting team for next Friday night's game. "It's not going to be very different. We basically have the same players.
"The players we have bought - one is a goalkeeper cover, one is a 19-year-old kid, so in fact we have one new player, which is Fred.
"So, of course, our team is not going to be very different."
