NEW striker Jordan White is confident he can make an impact in the National League with Barrow AFC this season.

The 25-year-old endured a torrid time in his first English campaign with Wrexham last year.

A blood infection ruled him out for much of the season and, although he ended the year as the Dragons' top-scorer – with seven National League goals – he was not offered a new deal and exited the Racecourse Ground.

AFC manager Paul Cox was quick to snap up the Scottish front-man as one of his key summer targets, offering the White the chance to prove he can be a success over the course of a whole season with the Bluebirds.

“I proved when I got into my stride that I could do it, but sometimes your face doesn't fit,” said the former Livingston and Stirling Albion front-man, who came up against new AFC team-mate Harry Panayiotou during his time north of the border, when the latter was on loan at Raith Rovers. “That's football, I'm not going to hold grudges.

“I'm better off being at a place where somebody values you and is going to get the best out of you. I think that will definitely happen.”

White's time at Wrexham ended when manager Dean Keates told him he was not part of his plans for the 2017/18 campaign.

It brought to an end a troubled campaign, with Gary Mills – who brought White into the Wrexham set-up – departing the club without having had the chance to field him in more than a handful of games.

White – who netted the winner in the pre-season game against Motherwell – sees a new horizon with his move to AFC, and added: “It wasn't an ideal start to the season for me at Wrexham, because of what happened with the illness. To come back from that was tough – I've never had an injury before, and even though it wasn't an injury, as such, the illness really knocked me for six.

“Coming back was hard. There was a lot expectation, because when I came back Wrexham weren't doing too well. But it was always going to take me four or five games to actually get into the swing of things.

“It was quite difficult, and I never played for the manager who brought me down. That happens in football sometimes, and if your face doesn't fit with a new manager, then it becomes difficult.

“Once I got into my stride, I know I did well. I fell that, with a pre-season under my belt, I will do a lot better.

“The manager here sees something in me, that maybe the one at Wrexham didn't. That's football, but I will prove him (Keates) wrong.”