Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has confirmed Bruno Fernandes' recent arrival at Manchester United will have an impact on their summer transfer budget.
United completed a £46.5million move to Old Trafford earlier this week, signing a five-and-a-half year contract with the option of an additional year.
The Portuguese midfielder became the fourth senior player to join the club since Solskjaer took over following on from the arrivals of Daniel James, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Harry Maguire.
When asked if Fernandes' transfer fee would otherwise have been a part of the summer recruitment budget, the United manager replied: "Of course it is.
"Of course signings and expenditure will affect your budget."
United will again be looking to strengthen their squad at the end of the season and Solskjaer admits it is unlikely his side will have a mass of arrivals in the summer.
Solskjaer has signed a player late in the last two transfer windows, but he insists he would like to get his business done early once the window opens again.
The United manager added: "Well we are a long way off the top of the table but we are improving and improving and we gradually will improve with the right ones
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"It won’t be six or seven coming in definitely. It will be a similar windows.
"But here we go again, January is not even done but we are talking about the summer window. Hopefully we can do our business early on."