The boss is just a couple of injuries away from an overflowing squad that he'd like to add to. Jones is not looking to let any players go in January but would like to bring a couple more in.
"Would I like to keep the loan players we've got? I'd like two more players. I don't want to lose players, I want two more in," Jones told the press on Friday.
"That's what I'd love to have - and I'll probably put the fear of God into my chairman when I see him - but that's what I'd love to come in while also keep what we've got.
"It's taken us three years to get into this position and we don't want to throw it away."
Jones was meeting Peter Ridsdale to discuss transfer strategy with the boss hoping his chairman could tie up deals for current loan players Wayne Routledge and possibly Michael Chopra but the managerial situation at Sunderland makes that issue unclear.
"Will I get them?" Jones asked of the two newcomers he would like. "Who knows? I'll speak to Peter and try and railroad him.
"And, to be fair to him and the board, everything I've asked for they've delivered this year because we've been in a situation where we've been able to do it, whereas before there was no point in asking because we knew what we had, what we were working with and what we could get.
"We'll have to see, but the fact is we've gone from bringing in lots of players where we might have had to take gambles on because that's all we can do. "You could bring in five or six players and might get one out of it because you had no money. Now, slowly but surely, there's a belief there and a change in attitude right the way through the club."
The apparant stability at the club at the moment means that City are not forced to sell. That's not to say we aren't on the verge of losing Joe Ledley, money talks and Joe has ambitions to play in the Premier League.
"In the past we've known we've had to sell players to survive and not had the money to spend on players we can't afford to keep," Jones continued.
"We've had to be prudent and cut our cloth accordingly. Now because we got to the Cup final, are in a reasonably good position and the fans are coming through turnstiles, it means we've been able to dip into the funds and get someone on loan like we did with Wayne and Chops and improve the squad. Before we've never really been able to strengthen.
And now Jones can field a starting XI, have a full bench and still have players to spare.
"I wasn't so long ago I couldn't fill my bench. That's how far we've come, and, if Ross McCormack and Peter Whittingham were fit, my headache would be not who's going to sit on the bench but who's going to sit in the stand. "Even on Saturday I'll have three players in the stand and two players back home, I've never had that before."