Martin Allen says he won’t be adding any more players to his Barnet squad for now with Nicky Bailey and Shaun Batt fully fit once more.

Bailey has featured from the bench twice since rejoining the Bees – totalling just 17 minutes of action – whilst Batt has made two starts since signing in the summer, both of which came in cup competitions at the start of the season.

However, he was given 39 minutes as a substitute in Saturday’s 2-0 defeat at Luton Town – his longest run-out yet in five league outings – and with both men now fully fit, Allen says he will not be venturing back into the transfer market for the time being.

He said: “With Shaun Batt available that is like another player. Bira Dembele won’t make this weekend but he’ll be close the weekend after so that is like another new player.

“Michael Nelson has come into the team and done really well. Tom Champion has come into the team and done really well. Sam Togwell has had a very good attitude on the periphery and he is chomping at the bit to go back in.

“Nicky Bailey is another player ready to go back in. So it feels like Bailey and Batt are new players ready to join. I don’t think now is the time to ask the chairman for any more players.”

And Allen knows Barnet supporters are yet to see the best of Batt after he joined on a two-year deal from Leyton Orient in the summer with niggling fitness issues holding him back ever since.

“It’s been very frustrating for him,” said Allen. “You couldn’t meet a nicer bloke. He’s a lovely person and a real buzz around the place.

“I don’t think he will mind me saying he’s been, at times, really low and really fed up because he keeps having these twinges here and there and he hasn’t really been able to get going. I’ve had a lot of chats with him to help him and support.

“Barnet supporters haven’t seen him at his best yet. But what I do know is when he played for Leyton Orient against Gillingham in one of those cups just over two years ago, he scored a hat-trick in the first half and he tore us apart. He was unstoppable.

“He needs our help because he’s had a lot of injuries but he is a player who excites. He will run with the ball and sometimes he hits the back of the net, sometimes he hits the back of the floodlights – we all know that.

“But he is conscientious and he is a good player. He thrives on confidence, support and backing. He’s a performer and it’s great now to have him back.”