Manchester City forward Savinho could make the move to Tottenham Hotspur before the summer transfer window closes. Spurs are interested in acquiring him, and City are open to the idea of selling the player. However, you can effectively rule out this transfer happening getting completed by this weekend. Man City will welcome Tottenham into the Etihad for a Saturday lunchtime fixture, and they would obviously not let themselves be susceptible to the prospect of Savinho scoring directly on them.
That is if he recovers from the unspecified and undisclosed injury that is sidelining him right now.
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Don’t expect Savinho to feature on the weekend. Rodri and Phil Foden are doubts, but could both make the matchday squad on Saturday, after having missed the opening day thrashing of Wolves.
Pep Guardiola said that he hopes Rodri will be “really fit… hopefully after the international break.” He didn’t specify the nature of the problem, but he has called it a “big injury.”
Pep did add the following:
“Hopefully in these games, he can play some minutes, but what is important is that he doesn’t have pain because we don’t want him coming back injured. We will try desperately to avoid that.”
As for Foden, the City manager continues to maintain that his ankle problem is minor, so he should be returning before too long. In keeping with the largely one single named player theme here, Ederson is reportedly moving closer towards a transfer out to Galatasaray. And on the opposite end, Gianluigi Donnarumma would be coming in from Paris Saint-Germain.
These three clubs have 11 days to get it all sorted out and finalized. Ederson was also absent from opening day, but it wasn’t due to transfer stuff. It was because of gastroenteritis.
Finally, Mateo Kovacic and Claudio Echeverri remain on the sidelines.
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