Tottenham Hotspur are moving ahead with a deal to sign Savinho from Manchester City, and the talks are now at a more advanced stage. The 22-year-old was not part of Enzo Maresca’s 21-player squad for Sunday’s Community Shield final, a small but telling detail as Spurs push to bring him in.
That matters because Tottenham are not shopping quietly. They have already spent a combined £229.5million this summer, and Savinho has been on their radar before, with the club pursuing him last summer as well. A move for him would follow the same logic that has driven their window so far: spend heavily, move early and keep the pressure on rivals while the market is still open.
Savinho’s appeal is easy to see from the numbers. He started just seven Premier League games last season, even after joining Manchester City in a €40m deal from Troyes. Before that, he spent the 2023-24 season on loan at Girona, where he scored 11 goals and made 10 assists as the club finished in the top four and reached their first-ever Champions League berth. That profile is exactly why Tottenham kept circling, and why a deal has never been a simple matter of interest alone.
Manchester City did not want to sell him, and that resistance has been there from the start. Savinho signed a new deal until 2031 in early October after the close of the transfer window, which should have closed the door on any immediate move. Instead, Tottenham are still pushing, which tells its own story: contract length has not stopped the chase, and the club’s talks with City are now far enough along that the question is no longer whether Savinho is wanted, but whether City are prepared to shift.
There is also a broader City thread running through the same conversation. Omar Marmoush, who joined from Eintracht Frankfurt in January 2025, came on as a second-half substitute for Erling Haaland in the Community Shield final. Tottenham are working on a deal for him too, but the two pursuits do not need to rise or fall together; they are separate tracks, even if they are being discussed in the same summer and against the same backdrop of City considering movement in and out of the squad.
For Spurs, the immediate issue is not whether they want Savinho. It is whether the deal can be closed without losing momentum. The longer City hold, the more the transfer starts to look like a test of how far Tottenham can push a rival that already protected the player once before.
