ESPN Brazil is reporting that Tottenham Hotspur are set to submit a bid of around €60m (£52m) for Manchester City winger Savinho next week, with the Brazilian now willing to make the move after rejecting Spurs’ advances last summer.
The report lands via ESPN’s Brazilian operation rather than their main US desk, which matters – Brazilian football journalism on City Football Group players tends to carry better sourcing than generic ESPN aggregation. It also lines up with what Fabrizio Romano has separately reported, framing Savinho as keen on the move and Spurs as pushing hard to get something done before the World Cup kicks off.
Savinho would address a real and urgent problem out wide
The reason this link has run for well over a year is that Savinho genuinely fits a gap Spurs cannot keep papering over. Son Heung-min is 33, and as our own analysis of the succession planning problem has outlined, Johan Lange needs a direct, attack-minded wide forward capable of taking players on – not a converted midfielder shoehorned out there. Savinho, still only 20, is exactly that profile: one-v-one threat, progressive carrier, someone who thrived in Girona’s high-tempo system before City bought him for around £31m in 2024.
Under Roberto De Zerbi, who wants width and directness baked into the press and transition game, a winger like Savinho is not a luxury – he is a structural requirement. This is a better fit than it might look on paper.
The fee is the real question now
City have not been shy about their valuation. BBC Sport reported earlier this window that City had briefed Savinho was not for sale even above £60m, though the mood has since shifted as the player himself has made his preference clear. Spurs reportedly had an earlier approach in the £42–43m range knocked back, so a bid landing in the €60m bracket is a meaningful step up – and closer to the number that might actually move this forward.
The player’s side is not the obstacle here. It rests on whether City accept that figure or hold out for more on a player with three-plus years left on his deal. With alternatives like Nusa also in the frame, Spurs are clearly serious about this position. Whether they get their first choice depends entirely on City blinking. Watch this space.
