Manchester City boss is expecting a busy summer.

Manchester City manager, Mark Hughes, is expecting a lot of transfer activity this summer as the big clubs have already started to flex their financial muscles. Real Madrid have already spent just under £140 million on two players and City themselves spend over £10 million on Aston Villa’s Gareth Barry.

Chelsea are also reported to be lining up a couple of big deals with Barcelona’s Samuel Eto’o the top of Carlo Ancelotti’s shopping list over the next three months. Hughes for one sees all the activity as healthy competition and thinks it will all make for an interesting transfer market.

He said: “There is a lot of money out there now, with some big clubs eager to spend it. It should make for an interesting market.”

City themselves have by far and away the biggest financial purse in the game but the problem for Hughes is that he may not be able to attract the high calibre players that he wants to. When there are other clubs with a lot of cash publicly looking for players then it will mean that agents are not able to direct traffic in City’s direction.

For example Manchester United will obviously be looking to make good the loss of Cristiano Ronaldo and if City approach the same players as their city counterparts then they will be more likely to miss out. Fair enough they did manage to poach Aston Villa’s best player from underneath the nose of Liverpool but this is unlikely to happen again during the transfer window.

It is probably more exciting for the fans that get to watch all of the drama at clubs unfolding. The fact that players can be traded so easily makes for interesting topics on rumours and speculation. It is even better if your club is involved and going for one of the best players in the country or in Europe.

However, there is a point that all of the money is bad for the game and there is good reason for people that hold this view to speak up in this particular area. The amount of cash that Real Madrid can spend on two people will quite frankly sicken certain people. Especially so when you consider the economic climate we are currently in and the growing number of health concerns across the world.

A big summer spending spree across a range of clubs could prompt FIFA into some sort of action whereby they impose a budget cap next season. This would stop so much money floating around and would enable smaller clubs to make good on the gap, which is currently developing between the top and everyone else.

So there are good and bad sides to big summer spending. Hughes is clearly of the camp that likes it, which is fair enough when he has the money to spend himself. However, there is a clear case for those that despise it, this group of people may eventually get their way and the £80 million fee for one player could remain as the world record for a very long time.