HAYDEN Mullins insists Colchester United will not be making any ‘knee-jerk’ signings before next week’s transfer deadline.

The U’s have been looking to add to their forward options before the window closes, next Tuesday night.

Colchester are still looking to add to their squad but head coach Mullins has stressed that any further signings they make have to be right for both player and club.

Mullins said: “I think you always want more – we know we need depth and we know we need cover.

“But the squad we’ve got is a very good squad full of experience, so I’m happy with it.

“The boys are working well and the focus is on Rochdale.

“I don’t feel that we need to go and do something for the sake of doing it.

“I don’t think there’s any rush and the knocks that we’re picking up aren’t big ones, touch wood – they’re knocks that we’re managing for a week or two.

“I don’t feel that we really need to act and do a knee-jerk one for the sake of doing it.

“It’s got to be right for us as a football club and it’s got to be right for the player as well; the player who goes into that dressing room has got to buy into what we do and how we’re doing it.

“The lads behind the scenes – Bally (Steve Ball), Tony Humes and Joe Monks (Head of Senior Recruitment) – do a lot of due diligence on players’ characters and bits and pieces, because they’ve got to be the right ones, you know.

“There’s going to be spells when they might spend a spell out of the team or whatever it is but we need the right characters.

“It doesn’t need to be and it doesn’t have to be a knee-jerk one – it can wait.”

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Colchester trained at the JobServe Community Stadium today, ahead of their trip to play Rochdale on Friday night.

The U’s are aiming to follow up their fine 2-1 victory at Oldham Athletic, last Saturday.

Mullins added: “It was a fantastic performance at Oldham – it was a really good day for us and we got a lot of what we wanted to get out of the game.

“But that performance has gone now and we want to look forward to Rochdale and really attack this game.

“Rochdale are a good side – we’ve worked on a few bits that we want to try and do with our shape and how we want to try and approach the game.

“We know it’ll be a tough game but we’re in a good place at the moment and the camp seems really good.

“The noise before the Oldham game in the dressing room was fantastic and I said to the players that there’s not much I really have to say.

“We’ve carried that on this week and hopefully, we can carry that into the game on Friday.”