Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he's happy to wait to find the right replacement for Romelu Lukaku.

The Red Devils sold the Belgium international forward in the summer transfer window, with Inter Milan paying £74million for his services.

"I can say [I am a striker short], but that was the decision that I made and I made it happily," Solskjaer told Sky Sports.

"When you have players, [they may have] great potential, but Romelu's head was not here for us working forward as a group.

"I don't want to speak too much about other players. I have got lots of respects for Romelu but his time was up here.

"We are very happy with the recruitment we did. Towards the end the right one we just didn't get him over the line.

"You'd rather bite the bullet and wait because you don't want to spend big amounts of money on something that you are not sure of."