Manchester United veteran Ryan Giggs believes the team has to curb its reliance on Wayne Rooney if they are to challenge for the title next season. The Red Devils missed out on a fourth-successive Premiership as Chelsea ended up a point ahead of them and Giggs said it had a bit do with the fact that Rooney's absence in the latter stages of the season hurt the team.

Going forward, Giggs hopes that United can shoulder more scoring responsibility and not leave everything up to the 24-year old.

"If you had to say one thing, you'd probably say we can't rely on Wayne next season like we did this one," said Giggs.

"We need to be scoring more goals from different areas and from different players, even though as a team we scored more than we did last season.

"We were also better defensively this season than last, but we can't rely on Wayne as much as we have done this season in terms of goals.

"It was unfortunate for us that Wayne got injured at a really important part of the season, because we'd relied on his goals more or less throughout it," added the Welshman.

"So to get to the business part of the season and not have him, then to have him for one game without him having really trained, wasn't ideal.

"But whether the manager does or doesn't bring in any other strikers this summer, the other players know we need to score more.

"Whether that's defenders coming up for corners or midfielders chipping in, we all need to contribute a lot more."