Ball is just six weeks into his time with the Gulls – the former AFC Totton boss replaced the sacked Paul Wotton as manager last month.
“It’s very difficult because you’ve got players here and I said when I came ‘we’re concentrating on football, I’m sorry and I know you’ve got there’s a few of you out of contract, but we’re concentrating on football, because if we if we lose concentration on the objective we won’t achieve it,” added Ball.
“My first conversations will be with the out of contract players and then we will continue and solidify some of our recruitment targets.
“You never stop recruiting, that’s football. That’s always on your mind that you’re always looking at, that the harsh reality of it.
“There’s other clubs out there that are finished who are trying to sign players that I want, so it’s just the nature of the beast.
“You’ve got to be proactive in this thing, I don’t want any of our players to be thinking about anything other than Dorking Wanderers on Saturday.
“But I have to think past Saturday and that’s my job and I get all day to do it.”