CONCORD Rangers have been boosted by the news that eight of their first-team squad have agreed to stay on under new manager Adam Flanagan.

The club, which kept the majority of its star names last summer, has secured the services of defenders Steve King, Jack Lampe and Danny Glozier, midfield trio Sam Collins, Joe Gardner and Gary Ogilvie and strikers Lewis Taaffe and club captain Tony Stokes.

Stokes had hinted he would be leaving the club over the summer after he struggled to break into the starting eleven this season but he has agreed to stay at the Conference South, soon to be National League South, outfit.

King and Glozier are two of the club’s longest serving players, while Lampe gained a reputation as a makeshift goalkeeper, after several fine displays between the posts this season.

Collins, the club’s player of the year in 2014, has also agreed to stay along with winger and academy coach Ogilvie.

Gardner, who rejected Conference National side Welling last season will return for pre-season along with joint-top scorer Taaffe, who found the net 15 times.

All were offered new deals two weeks after Danny Cowley made the switch to Braintree Town.

Talks continue with other members of the first-team squad, while Flanagan is believed to have several targets of his own in mind ahead of next season.