Manchester City are continuing to up the ante in the spending department after reports coming out of Europe are confirming that Mark Hughes and Paraguayan International Roque Santa Cruz are set to reunite at Eastlands.

Via DailyMail 

Santa Cruz will cost £15m, with the rest of the fee dependant on appearances and team success, but he is likely to have to compete for a place with Carlos Tevez - who is ready to reject Manchester United and Liverpool - and Barcelona’s Samuel Eto’o next season.

The signing of Santa Cruz, who missed the end of last season with a knee injury, shows that the manager remains in charge of the club’s transfer targets.

Al-Mubarak has admitted his frustration at the perception of City as a club who do not deserve a place at the game’s top table. The Cruz deal highlights his reluctance to pay wildly inflated fees, as the initial figure is £5m short of the price Blackburn quoted them in January when their bids were unsuccessful.

Hughes first signed Santa Cruz for Blackburn from Bayern Munich for £3.8m in 2007 after he had fallen out of favour at the German club. He scored 23 goals for Rovers in his first season but suffered with injury last term after the Welshman had move on.

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