Recently, the journalist specialized in transfers Fabrizio Romano released exclusive news regarding the future of Sávio, the Brazilian pearl of Girona who belongs to Troyes.
🚨🔵🇧🇷 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City agree deal to sign Sávio from parent club Girona in the summer.
Documents to be signed in the next days.
Despite bids from German and English clubs, Sávio will join #MCFC.
He’s now 100% focused on Girona to end the season in the best way. pic.twitter.com/oCDNy5d6Eo
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) February 5, 2024
The Italian assured on his social networks that Manchester City had already reached an agreement with all the parties involved to finalize the signing of Savinho for the coming summer and that all that remained was to sign the documents to be able to consider him as a new player for the Mancunian team.
Pep’s Manchester City completed this deal with alarming haste, and from Catalonia they theorize that this haste could have been due to the risk of losing Savinho, a footballer who was very tempted to wait for an offer from FC Barcelona to be a new reinforcement for the team, Catalan.
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Savinho was wanted by FC Barcelona and Manchester City made a move to avoid losing him
From Diario Sport they claim that Sávio wanted to go to FC Barcelona in the summer of this year and that there were some contacts between the Catalan team and his surroundings in January. For this reason, Manchester City wanted to avoid surprises and began to make moves to finalize his arrival as soon as possible.
🧐 Cómo el City evitó que el Barça fichara a Savinho
🫶 La primera opción de Savinho para la próxima temporada era jugar en el Barça
✍️ @joaquimpiera https://t.co/5Tw4QbBaEu
— Diario SPORT (@sport) February 7, 2024
In principle, Deco was the main supporter of Savinho’s possible arrival and the sporting director even contacted his entourage to let them know that Barça wanted him. However, due to the lack of certainty regarding the financial problems in the culé team, neither Savinho nor his entourage could be assured that his signing could be completed. Barça did not want to ask Sávio to wait for them either.
Once again, Barça’s problems with Financial Fair Play were playing a key role in scaring off a possible summer reinforcement and Manchester City knew it perfectly.
Therefore, taking advantage of the lack of certainty in Barcelona, they managed to tempt Savinho, his entourage and the club that owns his rights to finalize the purchase of the Brazilian attacker. According to the aforementioned source, in December Pep and his CT had already decided that Savinho would be their luxury reinforcement for the summer.
