Leicester City have lined up a dozen transfer targets and are close to completing several of those deals, says football director Andrew Neville.
He added that it had been a long process of identifying targets and launching preliminary negotiations with clubs and players.
But he is confident some of the deals can be completed in the next 10 days.
City have yet to add to their squad this summer but Neville said some deals were close.
Although Neville would not discuss targets, the Mercury understands City are in talks with free agent David Nugent and have targeted Huddersfield right-back Lee Peltier and Bristol City striker Nicky Maynard.
Striker Matt Derbyshire is also under consideration, and there have been attempts to bring back last season's loanees Ben Mee, Kyle Naughton, Patrick Van Aanholt and Miguel Vitor.
City have also been linked with a host of other names. The latest is Leeds United goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, who has reportedly been the subject of a £1.5 million bid from City, according to a national newspaper yesterday.
There has been some frustration among City fans at the lack of signings so far.
But Neville said he was confident some of the new arrivals would come in before the players report back for pre-season training at the start of next month.
"We have homed in on about a dozen targets at the moment," said Neville.
"We won't get them all but, hopefully, we will get a number of them in the next few weeks.
"We have done a lot of work in the last two weeks to get where we are at the moment and we are quite close on a number of acquisitions.
"We would like to do those before the end of this month, because we see pre-season to be a critical time. If you get pre-season right, normally the season will go well.
"To get it right, ideally, we would like the players in the building by the first week in July."
