A home game against Premier League Leicester City isn’t the reason Gillingham manager Neil Harris is looking forward to January.

The Gills set up a date with the Foxes early next year in the FA Cup Third Round, after beating Dagenham on Thursday night, but Harris has more important things to consider.

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Harris wants to make changes to his League 2 team when the transfer window opens next month.

He said: “Everyone will be excited about Leicester but that isn’t our biggest game of the season - the transfer window is our biggest game of the season and everyone needs to realise.

“We have got some players with ability and we have got good people in the changing room but they need some support and they need help.

"Now we have got Leicester City at home, we are through with prize money, we need to add to the transfer kitty, to get personnel in the building to support me.

“We will all look forward to it when we get to it but Bradford (in the league on Sunday) is more important and the transfer window is the biggest game of the season.”

Gillingham have picked up plenty of extra revenue in cup competitions this season.

They’ve played at a sold-out Brentford and won in the League Cup and are looking ahead to a game at Wolves on December 20, where they will earn more money on gate receipts.

In the FA Cup, they’ve banked £108,000 in prize money for winning their First and Second-Round matches, including additional sums from television broadcasts. The replay against Dagenham was live on BBC3.

Leicester City at home should attract a lot more fans than the 1,500-odd who turned out for Dagenham on a freezing cold Thursday. Those that did attend have been promised priority access for the Third-Round game.

Gills’ most recent signing was Callum Harriott. The former Reading winger was an unused substitute on Thursday night as he gets up-to-speed after 18 months without playing.

Harris will be hoping for more additions in January and perhaps a bigger transfer budget, with cup winnings on top of any money that may have been injected into the club from their investment venture.

Harriott was always unlikely to play against Dagenham, but Harris knows any new face can give the squad a lift - and help the competition.

He said: “I put Callum into the changing room and it is just a fresh face, he hadn’t been in the matchday changing room yet.

"Maybe that brings a different spark, character-wise in the changing room, that is what happens in transfer windows, you bring in different personnel and you adjust your group, ins and outs, and it adds a different dimension.”