Soccer: Keane calls for more firepower

ROY KEANE is worried that unless Manchester United sign a striker during the January transfer window it could fatally undermine their defence of the Premiership title.

Though manager Alex Ferguson brought five new players to Old Trafford in the summer, the departures of David Beckham, Juan Sebastian Veron, Laurent Blanc, David May and Fabien Barthez kept the numbers static.

In addition, Paul Scholes, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Wes Brown have all missed extensive periods of the current campaign through injury, placing even more demands on the men remaining.

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