Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson expects a competitive winter market against their relegation rivals.
Pearson admitted securing his targets will not be straightforward in the "sellers' market" of January but also insisted he was not looking to sell any of his current squad.
"The January window is always a difficult one because, as we found last year, one of the problems that you have is the potential destabilising of the players that you have," said Pearson to the Leicester Mercury.
"We don't have opportunities to change personnel until the window opens and that will probably be just adding, it won't be necessarily taking away from the squad.
"The reality of the window is that it is not easy to get the players you want. Why would clubs sell their best players halfway through a season?
"The teams that do business are usually those, like ourselves, who are in trouble, or if they are on the cusp of further success and want to strengthen."