Gillingham manager Mark Bonner still expects the club to do no more business before the transfer window closes this week.
Friday night is the cut off point for EFL clubs to complete deals for contracted players, and Bonner’s unlikely to be adding to the eighth additions that they’ve already made this summer.
“It’s the same as Saturday, I don’t expect anything to happen,” said Bonner, when speaking to the press on Thursday afternoon.
“I don’t think we will be strengthening – the squad is what it is.
“The budget has been spent. We have done our business, we have more than done it in fairness.
“The owner has been great. You want to keep going, when you get injuries you want to add and there are always positions [we could strengthen].
“We have done our work and when the window shuts and we know exactly where we are that will help and then it will be, ‘right, let’s get the best out of these for the 27 games until the next window opens.’”
The Gills sit top of League 2 after three games and are a work in progress.
Bonner’s pleased with what he’s got at his disposal, including both George Lapslie and Oli Hawkins, who had been made available for transfer since the end of last season.
Hawkins is currently injured with a fractured arm, which is in a cast. Both have played their part in the early weeks, with Lapslie scoring the winner at Morecambe.
Bonner has been dealing with a number of injured players in the early weeks but several of them of nearing availability.
The manager said: “I think we have a good squad, it is a better squad when everyone is available, the sooner we do that the better but we just have to manage it.
“We are where we are and I think so far whatever team we have put on the pitch we have seen a team that are fighting.
“We haven’t always been at our best level but that’s okay, we have loads of time to get better.”
Will anybody be leaving? “Not at this moment,” Bonner added.
“There is still time for something random to happen but I wouldn’t expect it and I certainly wouldn’t welcome it.”
