“I would really like that to be the case because I do think it one or two areas of the pitch we’re still a bit short.<\/p>\n
“One will be permanent, one might be a loan, but we would like two permanent.”<\/p>\n
McInnes lamented the lack of chances created in Sunday’s final pre-season friendly – a goalless draw at home to West Ham United.<\/p>\n
“It is just those difference makers,” he said. “I think a club like ours needs to have those guys who can isolate and go one v one and can play off both sides.<\/p>\n
“So we are looking for a bit more creativity that can serve the strikers.<\/p>\n
“I think we’ve got strikers in Nadiri, Chermiti, Shankland and Miovski who can all finish off chances. <\/p>\n
“Maybe only Chermiti is capable of creating an opportunity for himself. But Ryan, Lawrence and Bojan are very much dependent on service.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, McInnes feels “a bit short in terms of numbers defensively” with four games in 12 days.<\/p>\n
“I think we had five senior defenders available there and Ross McCrorie’s just opened up his knee a bit and we didn’t take any risk with him today,” he said.<\/p>\n
Rangers have signed three defensive midfielders this summer in anticipation of selling Raskin.<\/p>\n
Asked if the Belgian would be involved at Tannadice, McInnes said: “Not for the opening part of the season he won’t, but going forward, Nico might be subject to some interest, we are well aware of that.<\/p>\n
“We always thought he could be a flight risk this summer on the back of the World Cup, so we’ve reinforced the midfield area.<\/p>\n
“But obviously if nothing comes in for Nico then it’s another good player to add to it.”<\/p>\n
Asked if there were any imminent outgoings, McInnes added: “There’s been a wee bit of interest in one or two without naming names.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I would really like that to be the case because I do think it one or two areas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-826174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}