Gillingham manager Mark Bonner on dealing with a busy League 2 schedule and lining up some transfer activity in January

Gillingham manager Mark Bonner is continuing to monitor the club’s January transfer options while dealing with a hectic playing schedule.

The Gills will be keen to shuffle the pack during the transfer window, with a view to add some more athleticism to the squad and balancing things up, but there will also need to be players leaving first to free up some room.

Bonner admits the transfer activity isn’t likely to happen straight away as plenty of things will need to come together.

“It's not my sole focus,” said Bonner, whose team faces four games between now and their trip to Chesterfield on January 5.

“My sole focus is prepare the team, analyse the team, get ready for the next game and so on. That has to be the number one focus because if you take your eyes off the next three games you're in trouble really.

“These two weeks are mental because the number of days we're in watching, planning games and then you have that going on in the background.

“My absolute focus is on that but when everyone's packed up and gone home I'll be here watching players and meeting with everybody else like Andy Hessenthaler (head of recruitment) and (managing director) Joe (Comper) to try and really focus on maybe what can happen, what is happening, what news there is, what sounds like it's going on.

“At the moment it's just loads of conversation, loads of finding out who's doing what and so on.

“I don't think January will be crazy because it never really is, and you probably don't want it to be, but I'm sure there'll be a little bit of movement throughout the month and usually it gets busier as the month goes on.

“There's certainly not anything to go on like the first day of Jan, but we'll do what we can to try and balance the squad and make us