Cardiff City manager Dave Jones is the Championship's longest-serving boss
Boss Dave Jones hopes Cardiff City can attract new investment by January so he can strengthen his promotion-chasing squad in the transfer window.
Malaysian businessman Datuk Chan Tien Ghee joined the board and invested money last month and Cardiff hope to secure additional foreign cash soon.
Cardiff's 2-0 win at West Brom moved them to third in the Championship.
"If we get to January and can get some investment, we can hopefully go and do some business," said Jones.
The Bluebirds manager watched his side beat second-placed West Bromwich Albion on Tuesday, just four days after beating fellow promotion hopefuls Preston North End.
Cardiff have recovered from a winless November and three successive defeats with back-to-back victories in December.
Now Jones wants his side to continue their good form against fellow play-off chasers Middlesbrough and Leicester to help persuade chairman Peter Ridsdale to strengthen Jones' squad.
Jones has often bemoaned the lack of depth in his Bluebirds squad and their triumph at Albion was without midfield duo Stephen McPhail and Joe Ledley and influential striker Jay Bothroyd.
If we can put the chairman and the board under pressure to try and give us something in January, then we'll do it
Cardiff City manager Dave Jones
Then injury-prone midfielder Riccy Scimeca and on-loan Manchester City striker Kelvin Etuhu, making his first league start for the Bluebirds, were forced off with knocks at The Hawthorns.
And Jones acknowledged: "With the size of the squad we carry, we can't afford to lose players - but we're losing them through injuries we can't do anything about.
"We're probably the only club that hasn't bought anyone in from the end of the transfer window to the end of the loan window - and we're still up there.
"Now we want to stay there and if we can put the chairman and the board under pressure to try and give us something in January then we'll do it.
"And if the chairman has got it, he will give it."
But Cardiff have suffered financial worries recently as the Welsh club were given a 70-day High Court reprieve last month after facing a winding up order from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
The Bluebirds have been given until February to pay their outstanding debt to the taxman but Jones hopes there will be even more investment to boost his squad as he bids for the Premier League.
Chairman Peter Ridsdale said: "If the initial investment means that there will be greater investment early in the new year, well so be it."
As well as Cardiff's debt to the Inland Revenue, the Bluebirds still owe significant money - the majority is a long-standing £15m debt to former chairman Sam Hammam's Langston Corporation.
Langston took Cardiff to the High Court in March 2008 to repay their debt immediately but the club's barristers successfully argued the debt is not repayable until 2016.
Langston could still pursue a full hearing, but a High Court injunction prevents them taking further legal action until January.
But Ridsdale hopes Cardiff's battle with Langston will be concluded before Christmas after revealing the club have reached an "outline agreement".
Jones has allowed five of his players to go out on loan but the experienced manager has not taken advantage of bolstering his squad with temporary additions as he wants permanent signings in January to catapult Cardiff to Championship glory.
"We're all working the same way and that's important," Jones insists.
"We've showed good character over the last week. Our bad run coincided with the injuries and suspensions we had."
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