Chris Porter says he wants to extend his stay at Colchester United.

The 33-year-old, who finished the season as the U’s top scorer with 16 goals, is one of a host of players out of contract at the Weston Homes Community Stadium, this summer.

Porter is set to enter talks with Colchester in the coming days over a potential new deal - and the experienced forward insists he would be pleased to extend his two-and-a-half-year stint at the club.

Porter told the Daily Gazette: “I’d be very happy to stay if the deal is right but that will come down to the negotiations between myself and the club.

“I won’t rush into any decisions but on the other hand, the sooner it can be sorted out the better so I can go into the summer knowing where I am.”

Porter has just enjoyed a productive campaign, which saw him finish as one of League Two’s top-ten most prolific scorers.

The former Sheffield United striker achieved the second-best scoring season of his Football League career and also chalked up the milestone of reaching the 100-goal mark, in English football.

“I’m quite pleased with my goal ratio,” said Porter, who averaged a goal every 178 minutes for Colchester, this season.

“It was a pity that I had a little bit of a spell out through injury and I was hoping to get over 20 goals but I’m quite pleased with the final tally.

“I was also pleased to finish as Colchester’s top scorer, especially with Kurtis Guthrie and Brennan Dickenson both doing well on that front, too.

“Unfortunately they missed out on finishing the season because of injury but I think the three of us ended up playing around the same amount of games, in the end.”

Porter believes Colchester would definitely had achieved a minimum of a top-seven finish had they stayed clear of injuries, this season.

The U’s were without a dozen senior players at one stage of the campaign and have had to cope with the absence of key squad members, on a regular basis.

Porter added: “I think had we not had the injuries that we had we would 100 per cent have finished in the play-offs and quite possibly the top three.

“I think in the end, we did really well to get ourselves into the position that we did, finishing just a point off the play-off places.

“With five or six games to go after we had lost at Notts County, I think everyone outside of the club felt we wouldn’t have a chance.

“We did our bit on the final day of the season and won our game against Yeovil but we were relying on other results to go our way.”