Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag admits they're trying to get the "right" striker through the doors.

United have made attempts for Tottenham ace Harry Kane and Atalanta's Rasmus Hojlund this summer.

"Across Man United, a lot of people, we do everything that's in our power to get the right man in," Ten Hag said. "Transfer market, you nerve know, but we know our targets and we do everything we can. We put every effort in to get this done because it's an area where we need improvement.

"I don't go into talk about specific players who are under contract at another club," Ten Hag added of Kane. "We proved also last season we can be very successful even though we didn't have too many strikers and we still proved we were successful.

"So I expect more from the front players, to play at a higher level, they have to raise the bar. We expect more from the front players. Across the whole team we expect more goals.

"We have to raise the bar but, by raising the bar, you cannot always express that in a clinical result. Of course, we want to win every game and we have shown last season we can beat all the teams in the world and now we have to do that consistently and that is absolutely one of our objectives; be more consistent. Then we will see what we have.

"We want to play at a higher level, raise the bar, lift up the demands, then we will see what we are. The competition is very strong but we can beat any club in the world."