Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini is demanding the club's owners bankroll another spending spree this summer.
The Daily Mail says Mancini wants to spend big to prepare for next season's Champions League, while his City employers want him to offload some of the club's high earners first.
In the wake of winning the FA Cup on Saturday - City's first trophy for 35 years -Mancini made it clear he does not want to follow Tottenham's lead by enjoying an exciting Champions League campaign only to finish outside the top four of the Barclays Premier League.
But City football administrator Brian Marwood suggested Mancini will be urged only to 'tinker' with his squad.
Mancini said: "This year I think we should take Tottenham as an example.
"Tottenham played in the Champions League until the quarter-final and in the Premier League they are fifth.
"It is difficult if you don't have a big squad so that you can change six or seven players for every game. If we work well I don't know if we can win the title next season because this is difficult, but I think we can arrive at this target in one or two years if we work well with the club.
"We have a good team because we have a young team. We bought Mario Balotelli, Edin Dzeko. Only one player is older. Yaya Toure is 28.
"The other players are too young, like Jerome Boateng. All these players can improve. For this reason I believe in this project.
"If we need to, we can buy other good players. We can be a team who play together for a long time."
