Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted Manchester United will need to enter the transfer market to cope with a hat-trick of retirements. United invested in excess of £20million this summer to secure the services of Javier Hernandez, Chris Smalling and surprise capture Bebe, but the signature transfer to replace Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez has so far failed to materialise.
The Red Devils boss has consistently pointed out that, due to the massive spending of Manchester City and Real Madrid, inflated prices mean there is no value in the market.
However, he has conceded the retirements of Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville over the next few years are going to present a problem.
"We are not at the point where we have to go overboard to get the best player in the world," said Ferguson.
"There are enough really top players in the club at the moment.
"There may be a time in the next couple of years where we have to stretch ourselves, particularly when Ryan, Paul and Gary retire.
"Then, it is a possibility we would need to get really top players in to galvanise the younger ones coming through.
"But at the moment we have the experience. We have players who have been through the whole gamut of emotions at this club and know how to deal with it."
For now though, with that trio signed up for another season, and Ferguson not ruling out the possibility of Giggs at the very least going on even further, he is content to see if the entire backdrop starts to settle.
He continued: "We have no financial restrictions. If I hadn't been confident maybe we would have done something. But there was only one player I would have brought here and that move was sealed off quite early by the club he went to.
"The best thing we can do until the market becomes more sensible is produce or buy young players and develop them in the club.
"By doing that we are easily securing the next eight years at Manchester United."
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