MANCHESTER, England -- Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has admitted the summer transfer window has left him with "too many" centre-backs.

Harry Maguire and Victor Lindelof were picked for the opening weekend win over Chelsea with youngster Axel Tuanzebe providing cover from the bench.

It meant Phil Jones, Chris Smalling and Marcos Rojo all missed out on a place in the squad and Solskjaer, who will also have Eric Bailly available when he returns from injury, has accepted he will have to deal with some frustrated defenders at Old Trafford this season.

"I do have too many centre-backs to keep everyone happy," said Solskjaer.

"But we need to win games, we need to perform, so we're going to pick the players that will give us the biggest chance to win games."

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United turned down loan enquiries for Smalling and Jones on deadline day but sources have told ESPN FC they are still listening to offers for Rojo.

The Argentina international saw a move to Everton collapse on deadline day but Fenerbahce, AC Milan, Marseille and Monaco remain interested in securing a loan deal with an obligation to buy before the European deadline on Sept. 2.

"They're all quality centre-backs and I know that we will need quite a few of them," said Solskjaer ahead of the trip to Wolves on Monday night.

"Of course, Eric's injury means that at the moment I've got six fit ones, which is maybe one too many to keep everyone involved.

"But then that's our jobs, to make the most of what we have now, and for them as well to make sure every day in training.

"And when they get the chance, because they will -- we've got loads of games, play well when you get it.

"All of these, Marcos, Phil, Chris -- they've been here for a long time and they've proven that they can do it."

With two weeks to go before the European deadline, there is still speculation surrounding Paul Pogba amid interest from Real Madrid.

The Frenchman reignited talk of a move to the Bernabeu by saying there was a "question mark" over his future after the 4-0 win over Chelsea but Solskjaer insists Pogba will remain a United player this season.

"You [the media] always put question marks around Paul," said Solskjaer.

"I don't think it's odd saying enjoy playing, I have fun with my teammates, I enjoy what I'm doing, I love my job and enjoy the game.

"Of course that sentence with the question mark about him, there's always question marks about Paul.

"There's not one press conference that I've not answered a question about Paul Pogba -- 80 percent of what he said was that he enjoyed that game and his time here.

"I've got absolutely no concerns on Paul. For me, yeah he's going to stay."

MANCHESTER, England -- Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has hailed Mason Greenwood as the best finisher at Manchester United, ahead of both Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial.

Greenwood is yet to score a competitive goal for United, but Solskjaer said he has seen enough during preseason and in training to believe that the 17-year-old is the best natural goalscorer at Old Trafford.

Asked whether Rashford or Martial is the most natural finisher in the squad, Solskjaer said: "They've still got a way to go, because Mason's more of a natural finisher than them."

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Greenwood has been earmarked for a key role this season, following the departure of Romelu Lukaku.

The Belgium international's move to Inter Milan has also placed an extra goalscoring burden on Rashford and Martial, and Solskjaer has told the pair the way to do it is by getting more "easy" goals.

"Anthony has had spells when he's played No.9 as a centre-forward under [Louis] Van Gaal, then he's played on the left the last few years," Solskjaer said.

"I think him and Marcus both are capable of playing both positions. Sometimes it will be Marcus through the middle and Anthony on the left, or Dan James on the left and maybe one of them on the right.

"But of course the goals are scored from between the posts and not the 'worldies' that we've seen them score -- both of them, Marcus and Anthony with curlers in the top corner.

"I want both of them to be scoring easy goals because you don't have to work too hard to score them, just a little bit of movement."

Rennes came from behind to stun lacklustre Paris St Germain with a deserved 2-1 victory at Roazhon Park in France's Ligue 1 on Sunday.

PSG coach Thomas Tuchel left Neymar, who has been linked with a move away from the club, out of his squad for the second consecutive week and his side struggled to break down the resilient French Cup holders in the Brazilian's absence.

The visitors were gifted the opener when Edinson Cavani tapped in after a defensive mix-up, but M'Baye Niang's strike drew Rennes level on the stroke of half-time before Romain Del Castillo headed in the winner early in the second period.

The reigning French champions could have done with Neymar's spark as they were frustrated by their well-drilled hosts, who have become something of a bogey team for PSG.

Sunday's victory marked Rennes' fifth Ligue 1 win against the Parisians in the last 10 years, more than any other club. They also beat the Parisians in last season's French Cup final.

PSG captain Thiago Silva insisted that the ongoing saga around his compatriot's future played no part in his team's poor performance.

"For everyone it's difficult, but it's not an excuse," he told Canal Plus television channel. "Neymar was not there. We must think of ourselves. I hope it's the last (defeat of the season)."

Rennes join Lyon and Nice at the summit of the table on maximum points after the opening two rounds of the season, while the defeat leaves PSG in eighth.

The reigning French champions were frustrated by their well-drilled hosts, who have become something of a bogey team for PSG.

Sunday's victory marked Rennes' fifth Ligue 1 win against the Parisians in the last 10 years, more than any other club. They also beat the Parisians in last season's French Cup final.

"We were not attentive," Silva conceded. "You have to raise your head, try to be better at the next game because it was not the Paris St Germain that we know.

"A physical problem? I don't think so. We worked well. Rennes have been more solid defensively, more attentive, I do not know exactly what happened."

The home side started brightly but their hard work was undone on 36 minutes when Cavani pounced on a slack pass from Damien Da Silva to slot home an easy finish.

However, Rennes drew level on the brink of half time when Niang took down a cross just inside the PSG box, turned his marker and lashed a left-footed finish into the bottom corner.

The hosts then took the lead within three minutes of the restart when impressive 16-year-old midfielder Eduardo Camavinga lofted a cross into the path of Del Castillo to head home unmarked from close range.

PSG looked shell-shocked and risked going further behind when defender Jeremy Morel's volley came back off the post and a late push to salvage a point proved futile.

Kent 125 for 6 (Bell-Drummond 55, Cook 3-25) v Essex

Three-wicket bursts by Sam Cook and Mohammad Amir helped Specsavers County Championship leaders Essex to command a rain-interrupted opening day to the 168th Canterbury Cricket Week encounter with Kent. By stumps at the Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence Kent had limped to 125 for 6 after 53 overs with Cook and Amir sharing the spoils for the visitors.

Chelmsford-born paceman Cook wrecked Kent's top-order during a stint of 3 for 7, while Amir hit his straps later in the day after the hosts had mounted a partial recovery courtesy of a three-hour innings of 55 by No. 3 Daniel Bell-Drummond and a gritty 35 from keeper-batsman Ollie Robinson.

Batting first after an uncontested toss, Kent lost Zak Crawley in only the fourth over of the day. Driving down the wrong line at a full delivery from Amir, Crawley was bowled through the gate, losing his off stump to make it 7 for 1.

With heavy cloud cover and the floodlights on from the third over, Amir and Jamie Porter continued to set the Kent batsmen a stern examination until rain stopped play at 11.38am with Kent on 11 for 1 after only 9.1 overs. With the covers on and pools of rainwater quickly forming on the outfield, the players went in for lunch as umpires Ian Blackwell and Paul Baldwin eventually deemed that play could re-start at 3.29pm with the loss of 43 overs in the day.

Seven overs after the resumption Kent opener Sean Dickson shuffled half-forward to a Cook in-ducker to be hit on the knee roll and depart lbw for 8 then, in his next over, Cook snared the returning Kent skipper Sam Billings in near identical fashion, leg before for 1 on his season's first-class debut.

Cook struck again during his superb mid-afternoon stint by removing Heino Kuhn for 6 - Kent's fourth batsman to depart for a single-figure score. The South African's late decision to run a Cook off-cutter down to third man backfired when he chopped the ball on to off stump.

Kent rebuilt steadily either side of tea through Robinson and Bell-Drummond, who added 68 for the fifth wicket with Bell-Drummond extending a fine run of red-ball form that has led to him scoring either a fifty or a century in each of his last five, four-day appearances.

Bell-Drummond, Kent's leading championship run-getter for the season, notched his fifth half-century of the campaign from 99 balls and with seven fours, while Robinson, who contributed 35 in 98 minutes, batting with maturity way beyond his 20 years to help take Kent into three figures shortly before 6pm.

With six overs left in the day, Amir returned for a second spell to finally dislodge Bell-Drummond, who chopped on for a painstaking 55 with seven fours after aiming a late cut to a low-bouncing delivery. In his next over the Pakistan left-armer swung one in through the air to pluck out Robinson's off pole, leaving Darren Stevens, on his 300th first-class appearance, and No. 8 Ollie Rayner, to see Kent through to stumps without further alarm.

Australia captain Tim Paine has declared his team's 2019 Ashes blueprint will not be changing despite copping a battering from Jofra Archer's speed and Steven Smith's concussion at Lord's, with the Headingley Test following swiftly in its wake from Thursday.

This extends to Paine's desire to assert himself with the occasional hook shot, even though it briefly imperilled the tourists in fading light on the final day of a Lord's match that, despite losing five-and-a-half sessions to rain still provided much to cherish and remember. When Paine failed to clear the leaping Joe Denly halfway in from the boundary, the Australians had only four wickets in hand and seven overs still to face.

"You don't have a lot of time to think. Sometimes you get it wrong," Paine said. "I was thinking about ducking under it, but 150kph can make you do different things. I just didn't hit it where I would have liked to have hit it. I'm not going to over think it. I'm going to keep playing the way I want to play."

England's captain Joe Root foreshadowed that Paine would be receiving more of the same in the remainder of the series, and said he had been trying to corner his opposite number into hitting out against Archer, given the paceman's hostility and a field setting that made it hard to simply play defensively at the short stuff.

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"You're always trying to mess around with things. On that wicket it was very difficult to get underneath the ball and with two short legs right around the corner, stand up and play it doesn't seem like a great option, and you don't really want to let it hit you," he said. "You're trying to play with their mind and see what different things they want to do. I was trying to keep [Travis] Head on strike as well at the other end for the spinner to bowl into the rough and it ended up working out quite nicely. We've seen him get out a couple of times, especially against us. I think he might get a few more."

The rearguard led by Smith's concussion substitute Marnus Labuschagne and the vice-captain Head allowed Australia to wriggle clear in the end, something that Paine said the team would take confidence from about the array of players capable of stepping up from their squad - even if Smith is ruled out of the Leeds match with the aftereffects of his concussion. Paine also indicated that the team did not need to rethink their plans, pointing to dropped catches and sub-par use of the DRS as reasons why the match could have turned out rather differently.

"We'll focus on what we think is going to win the games and our message from a captain or a coach won't change," Paine said. "We've got a pretty clear plan in place that we think if we execute we can win the Ashes in these conditions. Whether Steve's playing, whether James Pattinson is playing it doesn't matter. The players we pick are picked to play a role, they're really clear on that. They know what's expected. Everyone on our team does.

"It's not so much about the person. We've been lucky that we've had Steve Smith batting really well but I thought Marnus came in and batted as well as anyone did in the Test match. We wanted two [substitutes] - I think if Smithy is averaging 62, you want to bring a couple of batters in. But Marnus played superbly, for a guy in probably his [sixth] Test. He got hit hard in the face second ball and I thought he showed great character great skill and technique. We know Marnus is a quality player and he's getting better all the time. We're happy with the way he played.

"At one stage we thought we were going to have to run some gloves out to him [Head] to tell him we were not chasing the total. But that is the beauty of Heady and Marnus and something we want them to do, play the same way regardless of the situation and if you do that in your first five Test matches that will give you some real belief and we don't want to take away their courage and natural attacking style of play."

Other spot fires in the Australian side include the underperformance of David Warner and Cameron Bancroft, while Usman Khawaja is also yet to pass 50 for the series. Nevertheless the strength of the pace attack - likely to be reinforced by Pattinson for Headingley - and the steel shown at various points across Lord's meant that Australia were still decent value for their 1-0 series advantage with three to play.

"We'll get to Leeds, have a look at the conditions and pick the best team to win the game and take 20 wickets," Paine said. "I think if you look at top-order batting across the two teams it shows you it's probably a pretty difficult place to be batting on either side. Yes, those guys would like more runs. We know how good David is, he's got 7000 Test runs at 50 and Cameron Bancroft I thought in this game looked pretty good, faced a lot of balls … probably would've liked to have scored a few more runs but I thought he acquitted himself pretty well again against some pretty high-quality bowling.

"I wouldn't say it was a great escape at all. I would've said we played reasonably well to 3 for 130 and then you have a little something that doesn't quite go your way and you've got a guy bowling 150kph and it's quite dark and it's difficult. That's Test cricket but we found a way out of it. I'm really proud of our team. But I thought in our first innings as well, I thought the way our tail stuck at it in a pretty uncomfortable batting period of time.

"I know some tails wouldn't dig in like ours did so I was really proud of the way they went about it in the first innings. Guys bowling at that pace take time to get used to and Jofra bowls from quite a height. He gets steep bounce. It can take a little bit of time to get used to, there's no doubt about that. I think the reason a lot of guys were hit in this game was because the pitch was actually a little bit two-paced as well. It was very difficult to decide whether to pull or duck because you duck and some didn't get up, you'd try and stand up and pull and it took off."

As for the fact that the Lord's stalemate meant Australia needed only one win from the remaining three Tests to retain the Ashes in England for the first time since 2001, Paine had not yet given himself time to ponder this. But it was not hard to imagine that, on the bus to Yorkshire on Monday morning, he will.