Dundee United 'still in the early stages' of transfer business - Goodwin

Manager Jim Goodwin confirmed Dundee United are "not finished" in the transfer market after he praised the "great business" the club have done already.

United kicked-off their pre-season with a 3-0 win against Highland League side Brechin City on Saturday.

"We felt it was really worthwhile," Goodwin told club media.

"Obviously, the players have only been back training for about 10 days, they've been working extremely hard and the plan was always just to get everybody in the group 45 minutes at least and we managed to do that.

"I thought the first half was really good, really good tempo in the game and scored some good goals. The second half was a little bit slow in possession. We didn't really create enough clear goalscoring opportunities, albeit we had two or three good half chances.

"The whole thing about these pre-season fixtures is the application and the professionalism of the players. We don't want to lose any games. We want the defenders to get in good habits early, keeping clean sheets, doing the basics well.

"We want the forward players and the attacking players to be creative and to get some end product out of the game. So, I thought overall it was a really good end to a really positive week for us.

"We're a very new group and obviously, we're not finished in terms of the recruitment process either.

"I think we've done some great business up to now, managed to get some really good quality players in but we know that we are at the early stage of that still.

"It sometimes doesn't happen quite as quickly as what we would like but when you're speaking to good quality players, they tend to have good options as well.

"Delighted with what we've managed to do up to now, really pleased with how the players have returned to pre-season, looking really fit, looking really sharp and we'll just gradually build on this as we go forward.