Ebbsfleet United are pleased to announce the re-signing of a further five players from the promotion squad – hot on the heels of the manager’s own new contract announcement.

The five players are defenders Joe Howe and Derek Duncan, Greek midfielder Giannoulis Fakinos and strikers Scott Ginty and Ricky Shakes.

Howe and Duncan are both in their second spells with the club, while Ginty and Shakes will begin their third and fourth seasons at the Fleet respectively in 2011-12. Play-offs goalscoring hero Shakes can expect to pass the 100-starts mark for the Fleet early in the new season. New boy Fakinos, meanwhile, enjoyed a frenetic opening to his Fleet career, coming as it did in the play-off run-in and he won the hearts of fans in no time at all with a series of excellent displays.