PARS boss James McPake says he is “hopeful” of making additions to his squad in January as he continues to assess his options.

But he also believes the backing he has already had from the club’s board has left him feeling “quite comfortable” with the squad he currently has.

McPake has been linked to the likes of Kelty Hearts’ Alfredo Agyeman, and, speaking to Press Sport ahead of last Tuesday's postponed SPFL Trust Trophy tie at Dundee, he praised the impact of the “excellent” signings he has already made this season.

He commented: “It needs to be that kind of impact.

“You take a wee bit of that away from the football club. If I didn’t feel that I was getting a fair deal, I would be the first to come out and say that we need more players, we need this, we need to be backed. It is probably myself, Dave (Mackay, assistant manager) and the recruitment staff being really picky in what we are trying to do.

“We could easily have signed 10 players, and that is not saying that we couldn’t have gone out and got 10 good players; you could. But, again, it is hard and we were cautious not to get in the situation where it was just chop and change all the time.

“There is a way that we are trying to do it. Now, if the right player pops up and that player fits the bill like Chris Mochrie has, like Sam Fisher, when they have come in they have been almost ever-present, then we will do it.

“If we are on the fence then myself, Dave and the staff are agreed that it has to be right for everybody.

“Obviously, we will get a wee hunch at some point, and say, ‘Yes, I like him, we will bring him in’ and you go with that. Dave could come to me and say that we need to bring this player in and you trust your staff and recruitment team with Gary (Montignani).

“So I don’t want to ruin everybody’s transfer window by saying that we are not going to bring anybody in. I am hopeful but they need to be right and a good fit for us, the way we work and in what we are trying to build here.”

McPake continued: “It has gone okay so far. Coming in the summer, and the six full months that we have had, we have gone from new ideas from us, working with a new group of players in a different environment.

“The only club that I had worked at as a manager and as a coach was Dundee, so you think that’s the only way. We are here and we can look back at what did we do right, what did we do wrong? We feel that we have a process at the minute and it is easy to say because we are winning games, we are top of the league and things have gone okay.

“Now it would have been different if we had stuttered and struggled all season, I would maybe be saying, ‘Right, we want loads in’. We are in the position that we are in so I’m quite comfortable with where we are in terms of recruitment.”