Ebbsfleet United are holding talks with potential new directors.

Owner Dr Abdulla al-Humaidi and vice-chairman Dean Pooley are the only two men left on the board following four departures earlier this year.

Pooley, who's only been in his role since January, would welcome fresh ideas and different opinions.

He said: "As the club’s growing, the business side of it grows.

"We, as Ebbsfleet, will get to a point where you have to look at it as a business because that is what brings a football club security going forward.

"In all businesses, especially ones that are doing well or turning a profit, you have a full board of expertise.

"If you look at a board like KPMG in the finance world, you’ll see their board of directors all bring a different element to the bigger picture.

"Abdulla and I have been having discussions and we’ll continue to do it.

"If we find the right person or persons and it ticks the right boxes for Abdulla, the football club and what we’re trying to do, that’s still definitely an option on the table.

"Sometimes when you’re in something, you have tunnel vision and you get into a groove and sometimes it’s nice to have an outside view on things.

"When you’re not as connected as we are, maybe it's like ‘do this’ or ‘have you looked at that?’ and it’s just some fresh ideas which project us into another dimension."

He added: "What we did last season has raised a few more eyebrows as if to say ‘they’ve arrived’ but there’s much bigger teams in this league than us.

"We learnt a lot last season and maybe it puts more pressure on us but we’re growing at a steady rate and that’s how we’ll continue."