Forest Green Rovers manager Mark Cooper says he is happy with the club’s recruitment so far as they return to pre-season training today.

Last week Isaac Pearce and Liam Shephard were added, taking the squad up to 20 for the return to Stanley Park, with the first game of pre-season this coming Friday away to local side Brimscombe and Thrupp.

Everyone will report to training today, with only loan goalkeeper Robert Sanchez linking up with the team at a later date as he trains with parent club Brighton & Hove Albion due to Australian goalkeeper Mathew Ryan being at the World Cup.

Cooper has been pleased with the business done so far, assisted by new head of recruitment Richard Hughes, and has said that another midfielder is high on his priority list.

“We’re delighted with our recruitment process,” he said.

“We’ve taken our time and we’ve tried to be really selective. We’ve tried to look at certain ages and certain positions.

“We’re going to have a smaller squad but we’re trying to fill it with players that we feel are ready for us to be competitive.

“People will be saying, and rightly so, that we’re short in midfield.

“We were short at right-back and we needed to get Liam Shephard done and we’ve got it done and now we’re hopefully close on an aggressive ball winning midfield player.”

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