Gillingham are set to unveil their new kit on Friday and fans are hoping a new signing will be wearing it.

Rumours this week have been rife that Kent-born Cheltenham striker Alfie May will be joining the Gills and might even be paraded at Priestfield in the 2023/24 replica kit.

There was speculation back in January that the Gills might be making a move for May but he finished the season with the League 1 club.

May, 29, remains under contract at Cheltenham, where he has had phenomenal success, but has indicated his desire to leave - alerting a host of clubs.

He’s spent the last three and a half years with Cheltenham, ending the last season with 20 league goals and 22 in total - just a handful shy of the 26 he got the year before.

The striker still has a year to go on his contract and his current side have an option of a further year but clubs have been lining up to show their interest.

A bid was reportedly made for the striker at the start of this month, with the Gills just one of several potential destinations. Derby County and Charlton have also been heavily linked to the former Hythe Town player.

Cheltenham will be making a sizeable profit in the striker if he leaves, having paid just £5,000 for him from Doncaster Rovers.

It was Doncaster who took a gamble on him back in January 2017, paying an undisclosed fee to Isthmian League side Hythe for his services. He had a trial with the Gills and Stevenage before Rovers, then managed by Darren Ferguson, showed more interest and snapped him up.

Ferguson’s involvement in that deal has led to rumours Peterborough United could also be one of the teams interested in the striker this summer.

Gillingham fans have been teased about a potential signing this Friday over social media in the build-up to their kit launch.

One fan tweeted: “Not believing we’ve signed Alfie May until the club announce it. And even then I’ll assume they’re winding me up. Absolute dream signing if it happens.”

Club chairman Brad Galinson has been encouraging their new director or operations Joe Comper to reveal the kit asap.

Mr Comper was reluctant to reveal the design through a computer generated image, as they have done in the past, and the club was waiting on a marketing kit to show a proper replica for fans to see. That’s now apparently arrived.

The Gills will hope to have kits on sale this pre-season. The club have been further ahead than normal this summer in terms of getting a new design manufactured.

“I want to announce the shirt properly” Mr Comper said. “Rather than putting a digitalised image out there I want to have the shirt on a player, or on a fan, and we do proper video content and that will be a big statement from the club where it is professionalised in that sense.

“In previous years we have been late to the party so we have had to do it that way (previously).”

Gillingham will have a new shirt sponsor after ending a long involvement with MEMS Power Generation, main backers since 2011.