Jose Mourinho 'not happy' with Man United's transfer business as Ivan Perisic and Nemanja Matic frustrations grow

Both could still arrive before the August deadline and Mourinho believes his squad does need improvement even if it may only see a deal for one of his remaining targets get over the line

Jose Mourinho is not pleased with Manchester United's summer transfer business (Getty)

Jose Mourinho has revealed he is not "happy" with Manchester United's summer transfer business and admits he may be forced to change his plans as a result.

Romelu Lukaku and Victor Lindelof have arrived for a combined fee of more than £100m but moves for a defensive midfielder, principally Chelsea's Nemanja Matic, and an attacker, Ivan Perisic of Inter Milan, have stalled.

Both could still arrive before the August deadline and Mourinho believes his squad does need improvement even if it may only see a deal for one of his remaining targets get over the line.

“We always want more,” he told ESPN. “We always feel there is room to improve, and I cannot say that I am happy with our transfer window. What I can also say is that it is a difficult transfer window and I don’t blame anyone – it is just a reality of things. The market is going in such a direction that many players are difficult to get, not to say impossible.

“Every club is powerful and they don’t want to sell or their demands are really high, so the market is difficult. Everton started really strong in the market without the Lukaku money. AC Milan, without selling players, are buying non-stop, so it depends on the moment, the objective, maybe on new owners.”

He added: “What I will say is that, a long time ago, we thought about four players to strengthen our squad, but it is really hard to do it. If we do the third and forget the fourth, I would be quite happy with that because I know it is difficult,” added Mourinho.

“At the moment we have Lukaku and Lindelof, two players I know well. I worked with one before and the other is from the Portuguese championship, which I follow every weekend. I am happy with them and I know that they will succeed at the club.

“The market ends on Aug. 31, so there is plenty of time, but obviously, the objective for me as manager is always to have the players as soon as possible and try to coach them in the team and develop the team with them and Lukaku and Lindelof arrived to train in time for day one.”