Airdrie boss Rhys McCabe says his squad isn’t one million miles away as they put together for one more season in League One - however he's focusing on a substitute for Dylan Easton.
The fledgling player-boss is taking his first steps into administration at New Broomfield, and says whereas he does want to herald gamers, it’s not a complete squad overhaul that’s wanted.
The 29-year-old is happy to report there are issues "within the pipeline" after the membership returned for pre-season coaching yesterday, however following the exit of Easton - the PFA League One participant of the yr final season - to hitch former boss Ian Murray at Championship aspect Raith Rovers, midfield is his principal space of concern.
McCabe, whose signings up to now are defender Cammy Ballantyne from Montrose and goalkeeper/coach David Hutton, advised Lanarkshire Stay Sport : “We’re not one million miles away, which is nice, so hopefully it’s plain crusing for now.
“There are some things within the pipeline, and we’ll see the way it pans out within the subsequent few weeks.
“It’s all good. The great factor is we’re not having to go in and alter an excessive amount of, other than Dylan Easton leaving.
"We’ll want a substitute for Dylan, ideally somebody in a midfield place.
“With out giving an excessive amount of away, there are areas which we’ve recognized as ones that we are able to enhance on.
“We had large Jon Afolabi and Brody Paterson who have been in on mortgage, and have returned to their guardian membership [Celtic] with expired contracts and whatnot, and so they’re positions which are going to need to be crammed.
“Other than that, it’s extra a case of getting the correct particular person in who matches the best way we wish to play, somewhat than ‘let’s deliver somebody in as a result of we’ve misplaced a sure participant’.
“With the best way we wish to play and stuff, they’ve received to match a standards of what we’re in search of in sure positions.”
The Diamonds are gearing up for aggressive motion kicking off on July 9 after they journey to Cowdenbeath within the opening recreation of their Premier Sports activities League Cup group.
And a League One opener away to Peterhead on July 30 can be on the horizon.
McCabe added: "We’ve signed up lots of the boys from final season, which is clearly an enormous bonus, contemplating the shape and the way nicely we performed final season.
“To have that core and bulk of the squad there, who already know one another and are aware of how we wish to play and stuff, is an enormous added bonus.
“It’s simply trying ahead to it, now.”
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