{"id":61119,"date":"2025-08-11T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61119\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:41:07","slug":"transfer-news-spurs-in-for-savinho-everton-progressing-in-grealish-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61119\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news: Spurs in for Savinho & Everton progressing in Grealish talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

From milking cows to Man City – the story of Savinhopublished at 10:29 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

10:29 BST<\/p>\n

Marcus Alves
BBC Sport<\/p>\n

\"ManchesterImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Having grown up in his grandparents\u2019 home in Sao Mateus, in the south-east of Brazil, Savinho learned early in his life to ride horses, milk cows and plant vegetables such as lettuce, okra and tomatoes. It remains his favourite holiday destination.<\/p>\n

“If you ask him whether he wants to spend it in Cancun, Mexico or with his grandparents, he will definitely choose the latter. That’s his passion,” his mother Dona Nilma said.<\/p>\n

As much as Savinho enjoyed the daily routine on the farm, however, he was meant for football.<\/p>\n

It didn’t take long for Nilma to find it out either – he was only five when she heard a prophecy from one of his first coaches. “This kid will be a footballer,” he predicted.<\/p>\n

Savinho started playing on the beach, and after switching to the pitch, was soon on the radar of big teams.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the left-footer signed for Atletico Mineiro after impressing in a match against their under-17s side. He was 11.<\/p>\n

He went on to become, at 16, the youngest player to play for Atletico in the Brazilian league and, at 18, the youngest to score for them in the Copa Libertadores.<\/p>\n

His meteoric rise convinced City Football Group to move quickly and it beat competition from Arsenal to secure his services in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From milking cows to Man City – the story of Savinhopublished at 10:29 British Summer Time 10:29 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-61119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}