Manchester City's prospective new owner Thaksin Shinawatra has given himself a deadline of three years to turn around the club's fortunes.
Shinawatra has appointed Sven Goran Eriksson as City's new manager with the Swede signing a three-year deal at the club.
"Right now, I have no other plan than to make the club very good," Thaksin told a news conference in Hong Kong.
"He (Eriksson) is working with my advisers to bring new players to join the club. We have many good players in the club but it's not enough.
"We have to get good players to the club and this season we have to move forward ... It's hard to tell how much we are going to spend. We need strikers, we need midfielders. We need quite a number, maybe five, six, seven, I don't know."