Phil Brown hopes to add to his Hull City Football Club squad in January.
Chairman Adam Pearson has revealed players must be sold to allow new arrivals during the winter window, and Brown is hopeful he can offload his fringe players.
"It's been well documented of the financial state of play at the football club," he told Sky Sports News. "I'm working long and hard with the chairman, not against him.
"We've got a fair size squad I know that, and there will be players, and they know who they are, who are surplus at this moment in time.
"But I have to be creative there's no doubt about it and the players that will leave hopefully will give me some kind of budget to get one or two players in that we've already identified."
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