Manchester City boss Mark Hughes has revealed negotiations are already underway for new signings.

"It's a been a long hard season and I think everybody at all levels is looking forward, after the weekend, to a bit of holiday but really the excitement always builds very quickly," Hughes said.

"It only takes a short period of time when you are not actually working at a club on a daily basis that you start thinking ahead and plans are already in place to make the acquisitions that we want and hopefully in the future we will be stronger again.

"In the second half against Spurs we showed good qualities and qualities that we'll need in abundance and any player I look to bring to the club will have to have to have those qualities."

Hughes has backed himself as the right man to take the club forward.

"There's been a lack of continuity at Manchester City and that's what they need at this moment in time and where the club is and the position we are in, in our development, I am exactly the right guy to drive it forward and people have to understand that," he said.