BARROW AFC have added a second new striker to their squad in the space of a month, after finally landing their lower-league target.

Former Sheffield United junior Dan Cockerline has signed on non-contract terms at Holker Street, with a full deal set to be penned in the coming weeks.

Nineteen-year-old Cockerline was released by the Blades in the summer and has played for both Curzon Ashton and Northwich Victoria this year. He follows Leicester City product Harry Panayiotou – currently on international duty with Saint Kitts and Nevis – in heading to AFC in recent weeks.

At 6ft 3ins tall, he is another giant in the Barrow ranks – with boss Paul Cox describing him as being similar in some ways to another man brought in from Northwich, Richie Bennett.

Cockerline was at Holker Street on Saturday to watch his new employers in action as they beat Maidstone United 3-0 to extend their National League unbeaten run to 10 matches and move up to fourth place in the division.

He saw the performance from the Popular Side terraces, with the deal to bring him to AFC – several weeks after the club put in seven days’ notice of their intentions to Northwich – announced after the match.

Cockerline was sent-off in a recent Northwich fixture and is set to serve a three-match suspension, with Barrow only signing him on a full deal when that ban is over.

Cox, who has brought in Bennett and Jordan Williams – both scorers against Maidstone – from Northwich already since becoming Barrow boss las November, believes he has landed another great future talent.

He said of the Cheshire teenager: “He has bags and bags of potential. He is going to be one of these signings that when we get him in – unfortunately he got sent-off a game or two back and he’s going to have to serve a ban – we’ll shape him up, and he’s another one for the production line, who I think can go on to play at a higher level.”