Manchester City have told Tottenham how much it will cost them to sign Brazil international winger Savinho in the summer transfer window.
City manager Pep Guardiola is a huge fan of the talented 21-year-old star, previously labelling Savinho as a player with ‘incredible individual quality’.
Spurs have held talks with City over a move for Savinho, according to The Times, despite the fact he only joined Guardiola’s side in 2024 from Troyes.
The outlet adds that City have slapped a £50m price tag on Savinho, who Spurs view as the perfect replacement for Son Heung-min this summer.
City paid £30.8m to sign Savinho last year and he’s played a total of 48 games for the club to date, conjuring up three goals and 13 assists.
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Savinho has been capped 13 times by Brazil and was named in the La Liga Team of the Season last term after an impressive loan spell at Girona.
City are reluctant to sell Savinho but will let him leave the club if he is keen on a move to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Why do Spurs want to sign Savinho?
Thomas Frank’s side are keen to recruit a creative midfielder ahead of the new Premier League season after injuries to James Maddison and Dejan Kulusveski.
Spurs feel they can offer more regular playing time to Savinho, who only started one of City’s last eight Premier League games last term.
Frank reportedly views Savinho’s versatility as ‘appealing’, with the Brazilian able to play as a right winger, left winger or as an attacking midfielder.
‘Savinho will become an extraordinary player’
Speaking after City’s 5-2 win over Juventus as the Club World Cup in June, Guardiola tipped Savinho to ‘become an extraordinary player’ one day.
‘He is a player with incredible potential,’ the City boss said. ‘We cannot forget he’s so young.
‘He needs to make the final third more decisive in aspects like the goal he has done in the last game. He has to do it more.
‘The last goal is more and more complicated and difficult to score than the previous ones – one against ones, the ‘keeper, that maybe last season he missed.
‘The moment he will make this step, which will come in a natural way because he has incredible individual quality, when it arrives for his commitment to say I want to do it, I want to be decisive, I want to score goals and make more assists, he will become an extraordinary player.
‘He can play on both sides, right and left, he’s so fast, he understands tactically the movements he has so to do so that’s why he can play with us.’
