Aitor Karanka won’t rule out making a loan signing before the end of the window and admits Boro do have a goalscoring problem at the moment.
The Spaniard does insist, however, that he has the best squad in the Championship.
Boro are believed to have made a bid to sign Jordan Rhodes on loan from Blackburn Rovers with the deal becoming permanent in the summer.
Karanka wouldn’t be drawn on that link and instead made a point of praising his strikers.
He sad: “I said a week ago that I think all of my strikers are the best in the league. My squad is the best in the league because they are my players.
“We have a goalscoring problem because we have chances and are not scoring,” Karanka added. “But we are top of the table with three other teams who have players scoring 40 or 45 goals between them.
“If we had players who started to do that now then we will be in a much stronger position.
“I am sure that my players can score the goals. If I had not thought that they could score goals I would have looked for strikers one or two months ago.
“In January I was not looking for a another striker, I trust all of them in the same way I did when I first started the season with them.
“I am very confident in them. All of them have a part to play for me in the next 10 games. They are all very good players.”
Karanka declared himself satisfied with his first team squad when the January transfer window closed but is open to using the loan market either to move players out or bring someone in.
“The market is open so we are always looking,” he said. “No manager can say they are not open to new players or allowing players to leave. If the market is open then you have to be open.”
The loan window closes at 5pm on March 26.
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