Gillingham manager Gareth Ainsworth with the latest on their hunt for additions and links to Ross County striker Ronan Hale – Jonny Smith remains on loan from Wigan and Watford’s Travis Akomeah is still an option

Gillingham manager Gareth Ainsworth is keeping calm in the January transfer window as teams around them spend like crazy.

The Gills have had two weeks without a game, but have yet to make their move in the window. Ainsworth says they are “close” but there’s no panic.

He said: “Myself, (managing director) Joe Comper, (owners) Brad and Shannon (Galinson), we're all working really hard. It's not like we're not doing anything.

“It is tough. It's very tough. Some people are spending crazy money, crazy figures, but this football club has fantastic owners who care so much about the club. They will do it right by the club, but also try and improve the squad, as I want to as well. It's a team effort. It's a real together thing.

“I'm happy. I've done some of my best deals in the last week of the window. I really have over the years. It's about my 30th transfer window now in football management. There's no way that you start panicking.

“I think what people get carried away with, and I want to speak to everyone here, is just because other teams are signing players, it means, ‘oh, we've got to sign them. We must do the same’. No, I pride myself on being different, not just in the transfer market. In general, I'm different.

“We won't get sucked into a game of signing players just because everyone else is. I think that sometimes if you sign too many players in January, you can mess the ethos of your squad up. You can mess things up. It also means you didn't get it right in the summer at all.

“There's a team in our division who's spending a fortune at the moment and looks like they're taking top players from the Championship. It's crazy.

“If you start getting into those games, competing, it can end messy. So, no, we're really