Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag has rejected criticism of his agent Kees Vos being involved in the club's transfer business.

Vos helped bring in Rasmus Hojlund from Atalanta, while he oversaw the sale of Zidane Iqbal to FC Utrecht.

Tenuous claims of conflict of interest have been raised in certain quarters of the media, which Ten Hag replied to this morning.

The Dutchman: "It can't be, because we make very good agreements about it from the start; how we cooperate in that manner.

"For player decisions, transfers, it's always 50-50. We both have a veto: the club, represented by John Murtough, and me. So there can never be a distraction."