Parma vs Fiorentina preview - Donadoni planning transfer targets

Roberto Donadoni insists Parma's new owners are already hard at work in their bid to help extricate the club from its dire predicament as soon as possible.

The bottom side in Serie A were taken over by a Russian-Cypriot conglomerate in December as former president Tommaso Ghiradi called time on his seven-year tenure.

While Parma still have serious financial problems to overcome, nothing is more important than helping Donadoni secure a top-flight future for his floundering Gialloblu team.

They are currently nine daunting points shy of safety having lost 13 of their 16 games thus far and Tuesday's meeting with upwardly-mobile Fiorentina will not be an easy task.

Donadoni told a pre-match press conference: "I'm talking to the new owners on the phone all the time. We are busy looking at transfer targets during the current window.

"We will choose players who can make an immediate impact, who are ready for action."

The sooner Parma can bolster their squad the better as personnel problems continue to mount up at the Stadio Ennio Tardini.

Daniele Galloppa and Fabiano Santacroce are suspended while the departures of Ishak Belfodil and Afriyie Acquah to the African Cup of Nations exacerbate the absence through injury of Jonathan Biabiany, Massimo Coda and Abdelkader Ghezzal.

"With suspensions and international call-ups we have a few little problems in midfield that would rather do without," Donadoni added, before turning his attentions to Fiorentina.

"We will need to use a lot of players who like to run against Fiorentina as they are a team that play with their ball at their feet.

"We want to prove that we've got what it takes to survive, so we're going out there to win.

"I'm not interested in what the total number of points needed to stay up is. My only total is three points, three points that we are going to target tomorrow."

Eight-placed Fiorentina arrive in Parma without perennially-injured Italy striker Giuseppe Rossi, while midfielder Borja Valero is suspended.

A 1-1 draw with Tuscan rivals Empoli meant La Viola missed an opportunity to end 2014 in the top six, but they have a good record at the Tardini, avoiding defeat there since 2007.