Justin Edinburgh won’t sign anyone who sees Gillingham as second choice.

The Gills boss is still looking to strengthen his squad for the new League 1 season.

He’s brought in Chelsea under-21 captain Jordan Houghton until January and will continue to focus on the loan market rather than move for free agents who have missed out on deals elsewhere.

He said: “The players we’re trying to bring to the club will be loan players unless something else in the latter couple of weeks appears because there’s still a lot of players who aren’t fixed up.

“There’s some real good players but I only want them at the club for the right reasons, not because we’re second best or they couldn’t get the money elsewhere.

“We are in talks with a few players and we’ll see what progresses over the next couple of weeks.

“There’s loads of players out there who are unemployed right now but some are probably trialling at Championship teams and not everyone’s going to get fixed up.

“But, like I say, rather than waiting for someone and us being second best, we’ve spoken to one or two people and we understand their situations but what I don’t want is for money to be the priority for them coming to Gillingham."