GILLINGHAM are tracking three strikers as they start the re-building process for next season.

Player-manager Andy Hessenthaler has confirmed he is looking at Paul Heffernan, former Welsh international Iwan Roberts and Torquay’s David Graham.

Both Heffernan, 22, and Graham, 25, finished the season as their clubs’ top scorers with 21 goals from 34 games and 23 from 42 games respectively while Roberts, who is one of the lower divisions’ respected goal scorers with a career tally of 233 goals from 616 games, is also being lined up as a potential player-coach.

Hessenthaler said: “What we need is a forward who will score 20-plus goals. If you look at our squad at the moment, Patrick Agyemang will get goals but I would expect him to weigh in with 10-15 and set up chances for others.

“Mamady Sidibe and Tommy Johnson will not get 20 goals, while I have not yet seen enough of Darius Henderson.”

Irish youngster Heffernan will be one of the hottest properties in the lower leagues in the summer after leaving relegated Notts County.

Meanwhile Hessenthaler has announced that he is keen to keep David Perpetuini who ruptured his cruciate ligament against Millwall on December 28 and didn’t play for the remainder of the season.

Hessenthaler wants him to sign on again. He said: “He needs to work hard over the summer but he’ll stay as far as I’m concerned for as long as he wants to.”