Former Dagenham player Will Wright and Brentford B team recruit Dom Jefferies arrive at Gillingham with lots of potential

Manager Neil Harris sees big potential in recent signings Will Wright and Dom Jefferies.

Jefferies, 20, arrived at Priestfield last Thursday after being released by Premier League Brentford while defender Wright - who has just turned 25 - was Harris' first summer signing.

Harris will hope both make an impact in League 2 next season and beyond.

Jefferies captained the B team at Brentford and was their player-of-the-year although he never made it into the first-team and was released this summer.

“He is an exciting prospect that the fans are really going to enjoy watching develop over a period of time,” said Harris.

He comes into a midfield department that lacked youth, with Olly Lee, Stuart O’Keefe and Shaun Williams all in their thirties.

Jefferies, who scored eight goals in the Brentford B side, will help with that blend.

“He brings youthfulness, legs and energy to the midfield area where we have real experience and guile already,” said the Gills boss.

“We think he has got a lot of potential to develop with us.”

Jefferies isn’t the only one with bags of potential.

Versatile defender Wright is at the right age to keep improving. He was an ever-present for Dagenham in the National League last season where he captained the side.

Harris made him his first signing of the summer and said: “He has huge potential and should excite people because of his age and his background of coming from a pro club and then non-league route. He has real development in him.

“I saw him play three times at the end of last season and I was more and more impressed each time I saw him.

“(Recruitment manager) Nicky Shorey had seen him, David Livermore (the assistant manager) had seen him before me and they are much better judges of defenders than I