United in the market for a striker, admits Gill
The Premiership champions have already been busy in the transfer market setting up deals for Owen Hargreaves, Nani and Anderson.
Despite this spree Gill says the spending at Old Trafford may not be finished with yet as the club ponder bringing in a new striker.
United have been linked with a number of top forwards in recent weeks including Dimitar Berbatov and Samuel Eto’o and Gill has hinted Alex Ferguson may move for a new striker before the start of next season.
“We have looked at it and we don’t rule out another signing,” Gill confirmed.
He added: “We’ve got a large squad now, there should be some people leaving but not many at all.
“We want competition for places, we are looking to improve the squad. We are not resting on our laurels, we want to do even better than last year on the pitch.
“Alex is always looking to improve the quality on what we have got out there.”
One player who may be leaving is Gabriel Heinze – the Argentinian left-back continues to be linked with a move to Real Madrid as replacement for Roberto Carlos.
United have granted a free transfer to Floribert Ngalula, a 20-year-old Belgian midfielder once viewed as “the new Patrick Vieira”.
Ngalula had been on the books at Anderlecht before moving to United but his hopes he would break into the first team had a major blow when he suffered a serious hip injury at the start of the 2005/06 season.
United have also granted free transfers to three other reserve players: defender Phil Marsh, winger Jamie Mullan, and midfielder Danny Rose who spent much of last season on loan at Oxford.
Two other reserves have not been offered professional terms and have been released. They are keeper Lee Crockett and striker Aaron Burns.
Meanwhile United’s new star signing Nani has set his sights on a Portuguese-speaking trio running riot in the Premiership next season.
Last month United swooped for winger Nani and Brazilian playmaker Anderson from Portuguese clubs Sporting Lisbon and Porto in a £30million transfer spree.
Now Nani cannot wait for the prospect of playing with fellow Portuguese international Cristiano Ronaldo as well as Anderson.
He said: “At least I’ll have them to speak Portuguese with and they will be important especially in the initial period of adapting to a different country.
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