Tottenham Hotspur fans are in a rightful rate over the way their beloved club botched the signing of local star attacking midfielder Eberechi Eze, who will join bitter rivals Arsenal instead after the Gunners made an astute last-second swoop to leave the stingy Daniel Levy with his pockets full and his bald head dripping with rotten egg.
Eze was supposed to be a slam dunk to join Tottenham, replacing an injured James Maddison as the new architect of the attack with Mohammed Kudus, Richarlison, Dominic Solanke, and potentially even Savinho working with him up front.
Instead, Tottenham are back to the drawing board, and while they figure out which playmaker to sign after already missing out on so many good ones like Rayan Cherki, James McAtee, and Morgan Gibbs-White, they also can't lose out on another top player from Manchester City in Savinho.
The other priority attacking target in the Premier League for Tottenham, Savinho has been the subject of plenty of transfer misinformation. Now, the Manchester Evening News's Simon Bajkowski has made an important clarification to the transfer rumors that Savinho isn't available for Spurs to sign this summer.
Tottenham fans won't buy any excuses
Manchester City are willing to sell Savinho. In fact, they are willing to sell just about any player in the squad, and Savinho isn't some special case where Man City are no longer willing to listen to an offer. The crux of the issue is that Man City are only willing to sell star players like him for the right offer.
Simply put, that means Tottenham haven't submitted the right offer. They can leak false information to reporters around the world and say that Manchester City are making it too difficult, bring up Rodrygo Goes, or do any number of things, like with the Eze deal, to try and soften their image.
But no true Tottenham fan is going to buy it. Regardless of Rodrygo's status as a replacement, Manchester City can and will sell Savinho if Tottenham spend enough money to sign him, because Man City can reinvest that money in a replacement. But they can't justify selling a great player if they don't get a serious offer, especially since that hamstrings their ability to sign the replacement.
Tottenham need to get serious. If they want to sign Savinho - and they really should - then he's available for the taking. They just need to pay enough money to do it.