DAVE Challinor is hopeful of bringing in 'two or three' more signings before their League Two season opener with Crawley Town on Saturday. 

Pools have so far made six signings in the summer with a host of players leaving the club or having their loan deals come to an end. 

Speaking to the Northern Echo today, the Pools boss expects a second goalkeeper to join the club to provide competition for places alongside current number one Ben Killip. 

Even though Pools have brought in strikers Mark Cullen and Olufela Olomola, forward positions are still a piority for the club.

Even though their is particular focus on certain positions, Challinor is expected more bodies through the door before the end of the transfer window. 

"We’re able enough to add more at the minute" Challinor said.

"I’m hoping we will have some in for the weekend. The difficulty is more around whether they’ll be loans and with loans, you’re reliant on other clubs.

"There are players who will become available and when they do, a lot of that is dependent on whether other clubs bring other players in. I’d love to say we’ll be able to bring in four more before the weekend but it might be that we have only two or three in before the weekend.

"I have no idea because it’s very much an hourly [changing] thing from our perspective. I was on the phone this morning catching up on things, players and clubs are having meetings and I could check my phone after this and have three positive WhatsApp (messages) saying you can have this player and that player and things will look a lot different. It’s important that we’re as patient as we can be to get the right ones in."

"We undoubtedly will bring a goalkeeper in. We’ll have a second goalkeeper and as I say it’s unquestionable. Whether that’s a loan, a short term, a permanent, we’ll look at lots of different things and lots of different options.

"A lot of that depends around budget and where we need to spend that budget elsewhere.

"We need forward players, that’s a given. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work that out but it’s about getting the right ones in. The right profiles for us and the ones that can have an impact and replace the goals that we’ve lost and that’s what we’ll try and do."