MANAGER Carl Heeley insists he is not prepared to be “strung along” by Worcester City players weighing up their options this summer.

The majority of City’s squad are set to meet with Heeley and assistant boss John Snape tonight when they will discuss their plans for next season.

Heeley expects some players, who he wants to keep, to be attracted by other offers and consider ending their time at the club.

But, with his search for new recruits under way, Heeley admits there is a “time limit” for decisions to be made ahead of the 2016-17 National League North campaign when City will face rivals Kidderminster Harriers.

“We will be patient with some of the players we want to keep but it is not open-ended — you can’t string us along all summer,” he said.

“There will be a time limit where they will either commit or we withdraw the offer.

“But if people genuinely want to stay at the club there is no need to drag on all the way through to the start of August. Tonight, we will either release them, agree new deals or make them offers.

“It will be one of those three scenarios. The fourth scenario is we will invite some back to pre-season. But there will be a decision on all the players we have managed to see that night.”

Heeley, whose side finished 17th, revealed he was looking to bring new players in to the club, admitting he already had “irons in the fire across the board”.

But, having let striker Ryan Rowe and left-back Darren Campion go shortly after signing them last summer, Heeley says he hopes to avoid repeat scenarios.

“There are thousands of players available but they have to be the right ones and fit into our structure,” he said. “We brought Ryan and Darren in as they were solid, proven players at this level but it just didn’t work out and they moved on, so we have got to try to minimise that.

“There are no guarantees when you sign players based on what they have done before that it will work here.

“We will have a plan of the players we want to bring in but we have not got any of them yet.

“As far as making wholesale changes, it is hard to say at the moment as there will be people we won’t be offering deals to but likewise there will be lots that we are.

“We missed out on loads of targets (last summer) because we got blown out of the water financially. But that’s the situation we are in. I am not going to complain about it as I have known about that for a number of years now.

“We will do the best we can with what resources we have got but we will be competitive, make no bones about that.”