Johansson eyes further additions to Motherwell squad

Motherwell manager Alfred Johansson is keen to add to his squad before the end of the transfer window despite his side's excellent start to the season.

The Steelmen have taken four points from their opening two Premiership matches and have negotiated the first two rounds of qualifying to reach the playoffs for the Conference League, where they will face German side Freiburg.

It's been an impressive start under Johansson, who replaced Jens Berthel Askou in the summer, and he says he wants to build on that by beefing up his squad further.

"We are not done in the market," Johansson said.

"We're still in the market as long as it's open, and we aim to do a thing or two more. Are we going to do more things? Yes. Do I feel we have people enough in the building? Yes.

"I don't believe anyone can doubt that. After the start to the season that we've had, how good the players [have been] we have already."

Motherwell lost a host of key players in the summer, including Elijah Just, Elliot Watt and Calum Ward.

Last season's top goalscorer Tawanda Maswanhise remains at the club, and Johansson says he is not going to concern himself around potential interest from other clubs in his players.

"These are moments of uncertainty, when there is a transfer window," he said. "I'm not going to place any bet on how it's going to look at the end of the window.

"I learned pretty early that you need to try to focus on the things that you can actually control. And that's what I aim to do. And then when we wake up the 3rd of September in the morning, we'll know exactly how it panned out."

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