Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is bullish about Manchester United’s prospects of signing a striker despite missing out on Erling Haaland - but says Mason Greenwood’s emergence has filled a “big void” and eased concerns about a shortage of goals.

Haaland was Solskjaer’s leading January transfer target but on Sunday it was announced the Norway striker had opted instead to join Borussia Dortmund from Red Bull Salzburg.

United will now be forced to pursue alternative targets but Solskjaer remains optimistic about landing the players he wants, despite claiming Greenwood’s form this season has ensured the club are not missing Romelu Lukaku or Alexis Sanchez, both of whom moved to Inter Milan this summer.

Greenwood, 18, has scored eight goals already in his first full season, Marcus Rashford is the club’s leading scorer with 16 goals and Anthony Martial, who missed two months of the campaign through injury, has 10.

“We always believed Anthony and Marcus were going to score goals but Mason has filled a big void, he’s chipped in with goals, so I’m not worried about goals from centre-forwards,” Solskjaer said ahead of Wednesday’s game against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.

“Mason’s on eight now. Marcus I don’t know - 14 or 15? Anthony has quite a few. Romelu’s a good striker and he’ll always score goals but it was time for him to move on. We didn’t find the right one [to replace him] outside our club but we had Mason.