Stags' boss Steve Evans is close to concluding his summer transfer business, after revealing that he has given chairman John Radford the names of two further targets.
This morning, rapid frontman Omari Sterling-James became the Stags' 13th signing of the close season as the gaffer added to his attacking areas.
And with the players due to return to pre-season on Thursday 29 June, the boss, in addition to chairman John Radford and CEO Carolyn Radford, is working hard to finalise his squad for the new season.
The gaffer said: "We’re very well equipped but we don’t hide where we’d like to strengthen our group.
"We'd like to strengthen our group in the striker department and maybe centrally behind them.
"[The chairman's] working so hard, as is Carolyn, to try and principally get one done for me. I've got two names on a piece of paper that the chairman's in possession of and if we can't do any of them, we can go as we've got.
"I think people don't know how good [Jimmy] Spencer and [Lee] Angol are – never mind Danny Rose, never mind Omari [Sterling-James].
"If we get that done, we'll be very fortunate and very thankful to our chairman and chief executive and then we'll be ready to go. If it doesn't happen, we could kick-off next week with the squad we've got."
"[The chairman's] working so hard, as is Carolyn, to try and principally get one done for me. I've got two names on a piece of paper that the chairman's in possession of and if we can't do any of them, we can go as we've got.
The boss also spoke about a number of other topics at this morning's news conference, including the following:
- Omari Sterling-James: "I had to meet the kid and make sure that he had really 'it' between his eyes but every judge of non-league football I've spoken to – probably since Monday, when I made it known to one or two that we were going to try and complete this deal – was they said we were very fortunate to have him because they thought that he was probably going to go to League One."
- The fixture list: "If we're in that top group after ten games, we'll be in that top group at the end of the season – that is a nailed on certainty. Our start is really, really tough when you consider who we've got.
"It's a tough spell - we've been given a real tough introduction but we have to play everyone home and away."
- Malta and pre-season: "We're very fortunate to be able to go locally to a specialist facility and have two days of complete testing, which will be controlled by our fitness coach Lee Taylor, but myself and Paul will obviously be around the group with the other staff.
"Then on Saturday morning we'll be in to the One Call Stadium for some football work and then give them a day with their families before we depart to Malta.
"They're going to work really hard – it's going to be really intense for them and we'll also get an opportunity to play a little bit of football and we'll also have the opportunity to meet some of the supporters who have spent their hard-earned money going there because Mansfield Town are going there."
Supporters will be able to view the gaffer's news conference, in full, on iFollow Stags.
