Yesterday when Fabrizio Romano (sigh) first broke the news that a deal had been reached to send Savinho from Manchester City to Tottenham Hotspur, it was big on bombast but light on details. And for those of you who like your Romano bombas confirmed by actual journalists, I have good news \u2014 David Ornstein of the Athletic has confirmed that an agreement has been reached, and even better, has transfer and contract fee details as well.<\/p>\n
Romano\u2019s tweet just said the transfer fee was \u201cmore than \u00a375m\u201d but didn\u2019t clarify what that means. Now we know. \u00a375m + \u00a310m in add-ons with \u00a35m of them \u201chighly achievable\u201d is a LOT of money, but as we talked about yesterday it\u2019s likely slightly juiced by the separate deal for Omar Marmoush, which is apparently very far along the road to confirmation as well. Supposedly Spurs upped the asking price for Savinho with the expectation that they\u2019d bid a little lower for Marmoush in order to save Manchester City a little cash by screwing over Eintracht Frankfurt\u2019s sell-on clause. You can argue about the ethics of that particular deal, but clubs do this kind of stuff all the time. While the bulk of this particular deal falls on City, you can also recall that Tottenham did a similar thing to PSG over the transfer fee of Giovani Lo Celso when Spurs bought him from Real Betis.<\/p>\n
Anyway, \u00a385m for a relatively unproven (but absurdly talented) player who has been desperate to join our club for weeks is a lot of money, but importantly it\u2019s not MY money. And Spurs have done enough good work shipping out players that the net spend is likely going to end up looking pretty reasonable, comparatively speaking.<\/p>\n
Again, I don\u2019t expect we\u2019ll see Savinho suiting up for Spurs this weekend at Brentford, it\u2019s just too soon. But he\u2019ll be in training as soon as this deal goes through, and it wouldn\u2019t shock me if he features at least at a minor level in the mid-week League Cup home match vs. Charlton. And maybe his City teammate Marmoush will be joining him there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday when Fabrizio Romano (sigh) first broke the news that a deal had been reached to send Savinho…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99,55348],"class_list":["post-821097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-transfer-news-rumors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}