Gillingham manager Gareth Ainsworth reflects on the club’s summer transfer business so far as the squad begin pre-season training

A delighted Gareth Ainsworth says Gillingham's recruitment team has delivered on almost all of his summer transfer targets.

The Gills boss still has work to do, however, with up to four more arrivals expected in the coming weeks and departures also possible.

Gillingham let 14 players go at the end of last season and have so far added five fresh faces over the summer with defender Liam Gordon, wingers Kadeem Harris and James Brophy, striker Will Goodwin and young midfielder Zane Albarus arriving at ME7.

A goalkeeper is close to being signed, while Ainsworth is also targeting a left-back and further additions.

He said: “It's well documented that I released a lot of players. I want to try and get much more of my stamp on this team, and that's been the key in the summer.

“I have to say that the staff and [managing director] Joe Comper have worked incredibly hard in recruitment.

“It's been a little bit slow at times. As always, expectations of players is crazy at times. You have to wait, spin plates and negotiate, and they've done it really well.

“We've got most of our targets, what we've set out to get. I dare say there'll be a couple more coming in before the first game.

“We've brought the targets in that we wanted. There's only one where we struggled, and there's some crazy money knocking around, which we're not about to try and compete with, but on the whole, we've done really well this year.

“You never get every target, it’s like shooting at goal, but I think that our ratio has been pretty good in this summer window.

“There'll be two or three additions to the squad now, maybe even four and maybe even a couple of departures. We'll have to see on that but we're shaping into something exciting.

“I think there'll be many