"Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool can perhaps say that certain players aren't for sale and never will be at any price," said Coleman to the CT, "but clubs outside of that top four can't afford to do that.
"I've no intention of selling Kieren Westwood, Scott Dann, Danny Fox, Aaron Gunnarsson - we're trying to build a team around these boys because they're all of a good age and they're only going to get better.
"We don't want to be going around in circles because it took us long enough to get them here and it would be defeating the object if we sell them. 
"But if somebody comes in with a whacking amount of money I'm going to struggle to tell the chairman 'I want to keep him.'
"If he says 'there's five or six million that would be good for Coventry City, that we could re-invest over the next two or three years,' I'd understand that.
"I'm realistic in terms of the transfer market and that sort of money could make a big difference; you could do a lot of damage with that in this league, make a lot of improvements.
"There has been an improvement - it's quite slow but I'm confident that we'll get better. "We're two or three points off half-way, seven or eight off the play-offs.
"They're the two gaps we've got to bridge, and we've got a good chance of doing that it we add to the quality we've got.
"I hope I'm not sitting here at the end of January saying 'we've just lost so-and-so' - there's no point having a pile of money in the bank if I couldn't use it until the summer - but you know what football's like!"