Hampton & Richmond boss Alan Devonshire will run the rule over four potential recruits at pre-season training next week after seeing star midfielder Elliott Godfrey join AFC Wimbledon on Tuesday night.

Devonshire completed the signing of Walton Casuals striker Nana Badu this week to soften the blow, adding to the recent acquisition of Sutton United defender John Scarborough.

The 24-year-old will make the jump from Ryman Division One South, having impressed at Franklin Road last season after putting a serious knee injury behind him.

Badu had to learn to walk again - and switch from being left to right-footed - after doctors were forced to stimulate nerves he damaged in his leg as a 19-year-old at Millwall.

He and Scarborough were Devonshire's first business of the summer but the Beavers boss admits there are more signings to come as he bids to combat second-season syndrome.

"Nana is pacy and a big lad, who I think will add to the strikers I have already got," he said. "We have got three or four totally different frontmen.

"He has got raw talent. He is hungry to improve himself and his fitness, and I like that in a player.

"I am looking at some other players. There are three or four coming to the club next week.

"They will start pre-season with us and we will see where it goes from there.

"It is a case of us seeing whether they like us and we like them."

Newly promoted sides Dons and Chelmsford City start the Blue Square South campaign as title favourites after splashing the cash this summer - the Dons have also enticed defender Alan Inns to switch to from Hampton to Kingsmeadow.

But Devonshire is adamant he is not concerned with what his rivals are doing.

"I respect every team in this division, but I am not looking at other clubs at all and I am not even considering them as threats at this stage," he said.

"We are well aware we will be a target this season.

"No one expected us to do what we did last year and no one expected us to get promoted the season before.

"I have no expectations of my players this time around.

"We are not worried about others, just focused on ourselves."

Godfrey ended weeks of speculation over his Beavers future by putting pen to paper on a lucrative move to the Dons, but Devonshire insists there are no hard feelings.

"I had resigned myself to losing him, but we move on," said the manager.

"We have lost big players before and have coped. It is an opportunity for others.

"Elliott has been with me a long time and goes with our best wishes."