Defensive woes, attacking bluntness: What do Newport County need?

The greatest concern, however, is in attack.

Newport scored just 48 league goals last season, the sixth fewest in League Two. Since then, they have lost their top four scorers.

Nathaniel Opoku, who finished as top scorer with six goals, has returned to Leicester City.

Bobby Kamwa and Michael Spellman have also departed after contributing 10 goals between them, while four-goal Courtney Baker-Richardson has been released.

As things stand, Harrison Biggins’ three league goals last season make him Newport’s highest-scoring returning player.

James Crole finished as the club’s leading assister with four but is set to miss the start of the campaign through injury.

For a side that averaged barely a goal per game and failed to score in more than a third of their matches, losing nearly half of last season’s attacking output creates an obvious problem.

To address the exodus of goals, Newport have recruited former Forest Green Rovers wide player Yahya Bamba and non-league talisman Shaquille Gwengwe.

Gwengwe arrives with a good eye for goal, having scored 47 times for Poole Town in the seventh tier last season, and already netted a pre-season hat-trick, but both remain untested in the EFL.

Todd, however, says they are settling in well.

“They’re good lads, they’re working hard and they’re trying to get it right,” he said. “It’s obviously going to take time. You can’t just bed them all in straight away.”

Ged Garner remains another option after scoring against Bath City in pre-season, but with just two league goals last season and a history of injury setbacks, it would be a risk to rely solely on him – especially as he has only once contributed more than six goals in a season.

Investment up front both centrally and out wide could well be vital if Newport are to score enough goals to avoid a relegation scrap.