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Sir Alex Ferguson<\/a> has denied suggestions that he is set to heavily invest in January, instead claiming he will not buy “just on a whim” in order to counter Manchester United<\/a>‘s ever-growing injury list.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 69-year-old insists he will only delve into next month’s transfer window if a long-term target becomes available, and will avoid making any quick-fix signings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ferguson told MUTV<\/em>: “I don’t think I’ll change my tactic on that [buying in January] because, if there’s a player who I have been interested in, and he was available in January, we would try and do business.<\/span><\/p>\n

“But there’s no such player really on the horizon that way, unless we can identify someone we’ve been monitoring a lot because we don’t buy just on a whim at this club.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Normally, we try and have a good progress report on the player, particularly background information on him and there’s no-one at this moment in time who meets that criteria.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Scottish boss also suggested that instead of buying he may look to his youth set-up to solve the club’s injury woes, with the likes of Paul Pogba and Ravel Morrison likely to feature in the coming months.<\/span><\/p>\n

“They’re getting stronger as they get older, Paul Pogba will be 19 in March. Ezekiel Fryers has been involved. Larnell Cole, Jesse Lingard and Ravel Morrison have all been involved.<\/span><\/p>\n

“When you think ‘okay, possibly the standard has risen since the days when Ryan [Giggs] made his debut at 17, even our Darren [Ferguson]\u00a0was young\u00a0and Lee Sharpe made his debut at 17’. Quite a few players did at that time.<\/span><\/p>\n

“But they have good ability and a good standard of play themselves so I wouldn’t be adverse to trying one or two, particularly in home matches, and involving them as substitutes to give them parts of a game, which we tend to do with a lot of them. So that’s certainly in my thoughts.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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