Manager Steve Lovell believes Gillingham are an attractive proposition.

Lovell has signed Regan Charles-Cook, Dean Parrett and Josh Rees this summer and is working hard to strengthen further.

No hard sell is required when talking to targets as Gills have plenty to offer potential recruits.

Lovell said: “It’s an attractive club, of course it is.

“It’s a League 1 club, we’ve been a League 1 club for a long time.

“We’ve got good people working at the club, we’ve all got a good knowledge and experience of the game.

“The way we want to push forward, we’ve got ambition so it’s the same as any other club.

“At the end of the day it comes down to the player to make a decision where he wants to play football.

“Some players you lose and some players you win and get them.

“The ones you win are the ones you know are going to come with you, work hard, roll their sleeves up and have a good go. That’s the main thing.

“All the boys we’ve signed want to improve the football club. They want to improve themselves, their attitude is first class and they’re football-orientated. That’s the type of players I want to sign.”

Lovell is enjoying his first close season as a Football League manager and the wheeling and dealing that comes with it.

It’s a busy period but he wouldn’t have it any other way.

He said: “It’s much different to the playing days.

“As a player, you can go away and have your rest and do your fitness programme that we give the boys at your own leisure.

“When you’re the manager, you’re on the phone all the time, you’re dealing with players and agents and situations at the club.

“That’s part of the job and something I enjoy anyway.

“You get to talk to and meet a lot of people and it’s a good time.

“It’s not a hard time, it’s a time you embrace, you take the knowledge out of it and learn from it.”