Kaizer Chiefs coach Steve Komphela is cautious about stating whether the team will be fierce in the transfer market, though he admitted Amakhosi "are thin in certain areas".
Chiefs managed a fourth-place finish in the 2016-2017 Absa Premiership season with their 1-0 win over champions Bidvest Wits at FNB Stadium on Saturday, improving on last season's fifth position.
Komphela endured a second season without a trophy at Amakhosi.
Asked what he would do differently to ensure an improvement in his third season, the coach replied: "You want to lead me now, or mislead me, into responding. So I've got to be very careful.
"We have to do an audit. And there are areas where I felt we were a bit thin.
"And there are certain things that I think, as a team, if we were to rectify the mistakes of this season, need to be done.
"In relation to the market - that talks to that.
"Coaches have to be very careful that you don't start saying things before they are done lest there is a different outcome."
He added: "Without sending a message that, 'We need to buy this player and this player'. But we do need to tighten up the screws so that we can come through."
Chiefs' chairman Kaizer Motaung, who has appeared to give his backing to Komphela, saying he believed 2016-2017 held more promise, has said he believe the club needed tosign players in their defence.
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