Tottenham Hotspur are working on a deal to sign Savinho and Omar Marmoush from Manchester City.

Nothing is finalised but Tottenham’s talks with City are advancing.

The Athletic reported on Tuesday that Spurs were progressing in a deal for Savinho, while Marmoush has also been among those considered likely to leave City this summer.

Savinho, the 22-year-old winger, was not part of Enzo Maresca’s 21-player squad for City’s 3-0 Community Shield final defeat by Arsenal on Sunday. Marmoush, 27, came on as a second-half substitute for Erling Haaland.

The potential deals for Savinho and Marmoush would add to an already busy summer for Tottenham, who have spent a combined £229.5million on Sandro Tonali, Mateus Fernandes and Jan Paul van Hecke.

Tottenham pursued a move for Savinho last summer, with The Athletic reporting in August 2025 that they had discussed a package worth in the region of €50million (£43.3m, $58.2m) with City.

City, though, did not want to sell the Brazilian, who signed a new deal until 2031 in early October after the close of the transfer window.

Savinho, however, continued to play a bit-part role for City, starting just seven Premier League games last season as Pep Guardiola’s side finished second and won a domestic cup double.

The Brazil international joined City in a €40m deal from French side Troyes, after spending the 2023-24 season on loan at La Liga team Girona, where he recorded 11 goals and 10 assists, helping the club to a top-four finish and the club’s first-ever Champions League berth. Both Troyes and Girona are owned by the City Football Group (CFG).

Marmoush started eight times in the Premier League last term, finishing the campaign with eight goals in 36 appearances. The forward then played five times for Egypt at the World Cup as they reached the last 16. He joined City from Eintracht Frankfurt in January 2025 after scoring 37 times in 67 appearances.

Alongside the signings of Tonali, Fernandes and Van Hecke, Spurs have recruited defenders Marcos Senesi and Andy Robertson and goalkeeper Martin Dubravka on free transfers.

Spurs delivering De Zerbi’s ‘bomba’ promise

Analysis by Tottenham correspondent Jay Harris

A couple of weeks ago, Roberto De Zerbi revealed that Spurs were lining up a surprise “bomba” signing. Supporters have become restless since then but this audacious double swoop has been well worth the wait.

Spurs’ interest in Savinho can be traced back to last summer following Thomas Frank’s appointment. Savinho has failed to live up to expectations during his time in Manchester but is still viewed as a quality, versatile option for the squad even though De Zerbi is now in charge. Savinho would also be reunited with Xavi Simons, who he played with during the 2022-23 season at PSV Eindhoven. This move has dragged on for the entire summer but Spurs appear to be finally closing in on one of their top targets.

Tonali cost Spurs an initial £92.5m, with £7.5m due in potential add-ons (Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

Savinho’s arrival would not be enough to plug the gaps upfront, which is why their pursuit of Omar Marmoush is so exciting. Spurs desperately need another centre-forward because Richarlison only has a year left on his contract and Dominic Solanke has struggled with injuries over the last 18 months. Marmoush has the flexibility to play through the middle on his own and alongside Solanke or Richarlison.

Marmoush’s star has waned slightly over the last 12 months because he is in the awkward position of playing second fiddle to Haaland at City and Mohamed Salah with Egypt. Before Marmoush joined City midway through the 2024-25 season, he scored 15 goals in 17 games for Eintracht. With the promise of more regular game time, Spurs will be hoping Marmoush can replicate that form if he makes the move to north London.

Spurs have already remodelled their midfield and defence this summer. Signing Savinho and Marmoush would secure their status as legitimate top-four contenders and cap off a remarkable transfer window which, on paper, will go down as one of the best in Premier League history.

How can Spurs afford this spending?

Analysis by football finance writer Chris Weatherspoon

Even by the standards of modern English football, Tottenham’s outlay is eyebrow-raising. Inside the first three weeks of the summer window, they committed a £230m on three signings. Add unreported agent fees and the Premier League’s transfer levy of four per cent on every incoming transfer, and their splurge tops a quarter of a billion pounds. The club’s single-season record is £272.2m (in 2023-24).

Or it was.

Following the signing of Van Hecke from Brighton before the end of the 2025-26 accounting year, The Athletic projects Spurs’ spending on new players landed just shy of £300m last season. On a net basis, we reckon around £240m was spent, comfortably higher than the club’s previous record of £180.1m (again set in 2023-24).

Champions League money will have helped pay the bills last season, but the greater factor has been a shift in strategy at the top of the club. After two decades of parsimony, ENIC, the firm that holds a majority ownership stake in Spurs, is now pumping funds in.

Fans of other clubs might also wonder how Spurs can afford this activity while remaining within football’s financial rules. Yet a relative lack of liquidity (at least prior to ENIC’s funding) bears little relevance to compliance, with football’s regulations previously focused on keeping losses low and, now, trained on how much clubs spend on their squads.

The losses at Tottenham have rocketed in recent seasons, though much of that owes to a huge depreciation charge on the stadium — an expense which is deducted from loss-based calculations. They have dipped into underlying deficits too, but those are not so large that they’ll have trouble with the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules (PSR), which, in any case, will cease to operate once clubs are assessed on the 2025-26 season.

Moreover, much to their supporters’ chagrin, Spurs have routinely operated one of the lowest wages-to-revenue figures in both English and European football.

In 2024-25, a season where they were without Champions League football, just 45 per cent of revenue went on total wages. The amount spent on players, relevant for SCR purposes, is even lower. Clubs don’t release player wage details but, per a UEFA report in 2022-23, Tottenham’s player wages were just 32 per cent of turnover.

Even with growing amortisation costs on transfer fees, total wages and amortisation as a proportion of revenue in 2024-25 was just 70 per cent. That also doesn’t include the averaged player profits that are added into the SCR calculation. In other words, they have had plenty of headroom.

Player sales are also taking on added importance. Spurs’ shoddy transfer business of recent years has made that infertile ground.

But recouping £35m on Brennan Johnson when he went to Crystal Palace in January was seen internally as decent business, while the deal agreed to sell Luka Vuskovic to Brighton is better still. Vuskovic, who joined in summer 2025 for £12m but was without a Spurs first-team appearance to his name, having spent last season out on loan, headed to the south coast for a guaranteed £46m, or only £6m less than went the opposite way for Van Hecke.

Cristian Romero has joined Atletico Madrid for £34.1m, while Guglielmo Vicario has left for Juventus on loan with an €8m option to buy and Radu Dragusin has signed for Fiorentina on loan with a conditional obligation.

What to read next

Ahead of the new Premier League season, which begins later this week, we asked Tim Spiers and Phil Hay to rank the division’s top 50 footballers. Three Tottenham players made the list, including two summer signings, but none of their attackers featured, perhaps explaining why Roberto De Zerbi has been so vocal about the need to strengthen the club’s front line. Click here to discover who made the top 50 — and who missed out — and be sure to join the discussion.

The Los Angeles Dodgers aim to sweep the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday at Coors Field, beginning at 8:40 p.m. ET. Roki Sasaki (5-5, 4.46 ERA) gets the start for the Dodgers, who are 76-51 this season and first in the NL West. Kyle Freeland (4-10, 6.27 ERA) is the expected starter for the Rockies, who are 50-76 and fifth in the NL West.

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Injury reports

Dodgers

Dalton Rushing: 10 Day IL (Arm), Brock Stewart: 15 Day IL (Shoulder), Edwin Díaz: 15 Day IL (Neck), Will Klein: 15 Day IL (Elbow), Justin Wrobleski: 15 Day IL (Forearm), Bobby Miller: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Gavin Stone: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Jake Cousins: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Blake Treinen: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Will Smith: 60 Day IL (Neck), Brusdar Graterol: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Kris Bubic: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Tyler Glasnow: 60 Day IL (Back), Ben Casparius: 60 Day IL (Shoulder)

Rockies

Hunter Goodman: 10 Day IL (Shoulder), Tyler Freeman: 10 Day IL (Lumbar), Jaden Hill: 15 Day IL (Shoulder), Sean Sullivan: 15 Day IL (Undisclosed), Chase Dollander: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Kris Bryant: 60 Day IL (Back), José Quintana: 60 Day IL (Elbow), McCade Brown: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), RJ Petit: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Welinton Herrera: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Pierson Ohl: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Kyle Karros: 7 Day IL (Concussion)

Stats to know

• Shohei Ohtani is hitting for a .294 BA, .390 OBP and .558 SLG with a 23% strikeout rate and a 13.1% walk rate. His OPS is .949, which ranks 2nd in MLB, and he has scored 82 runs. In 535 plate appearances, he has hit 30 home runs (8th in MLB) and driven in 80 runs (8th in MLB). Ohtani has been crafty on the base paths, recording seven steals on 10 attempts.
• In 543 plate appearances, Andy Pages is hitting .273/.339/.462 with a .801 OPS and 12 steals on 19 attempts. He has hit 21 long balls, driven in 80 runs (8th in MLB) and scored 71 times.
• Jake McCarthy is hitting for a .295 BA, .333 OBP and .493 SLG with a 16.8% strikeout rate and a 4.8% walk rate. His OPS is .826 and he has scored 60 runs. In 434 plate appearances, he has hit 13 home runs and driven in 68 runs. McCarthy has recorded 21 steals on 25 attempts.
• In 492 plate appearances, TJ Rumfield has posted a 14.4% strikeout rate and a 9.6% walk rate while slashing .293/.372/.449 with 13 home runs, 60 RBIs and 53 runs scored.

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A Boulder County sheriff’s deputy attempted to serve Colorado football coach Deion Sanders with papers on campus last week.

But Sanders, according to sheriff’s department spokesperson Carrie Haverfield, was “unavailable at the time to receive receipt of the papers.” The deputy arrived on campus at 10:22 a.m. on Aug. 11, Haverfield said, while the Buffaloes were hosting an open practice at Franklin Field from 9 to 11.

The deputy’s attempt to serve the civil papers comes amid a USA Today report that the 59-year-old Sanders was subpoenaed to testify in his son Shilo’s bankruptcy trial, which is scheduled to start the same week as Colorado’s season-opener at Georgia Tech.

A Colorado spokesperson said the school declined to comment.

According to court records, Shilo Sanders, who played safety at Colorado for his father in 2023 and 2024, owes $11.89 million to John Darjean, a former high school security guard, who alleges that a physical altercation with Shilo Sanders in 2015 caused him permanent physical damage.

Colorado bankruptcy Judge Michael E. Romero will determine whether the looming debt is a result of what Romero described in a court filing last week as “a willful and malicious injury.” Shilo Sanders, who was 15 at the time, has claimed he acted in self-defense.

Shilo Sanders eventually filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in October 2023. Meanwhile, Darjean and his lawyers claimed in court documents that Shilo Sanders didn’t properly disclose his assets when he filed.

They are still seeking to collect on the $11.89 million judgment Shilo Sanders was ordered to pay after a March 2022 civil trial in a Texas district court ended in Darjean’s favor. Shilo Sanders failed to appear at the trial and claims in court documents that he could not afford legal representation at the time, that notice of new trial dates never reached him, and that he did not learn of the default judgment until 2023.

Haverfield told The Athletic in an email Wednesday morning that the sheriff’s department does not disclose the contents of civil papers served by its deputies, so there is no confirmation Deion Sanders has been subpoenaed yet, and it’s unclear whether it’s tied to his son’s bankruptcy case. Haverfield added that it is not unusual for the serving of civil papers to take multiple attempts to complete.

“While working with university staff to find a better time to complete the process, we heard from Mr. Sanders’ legal counsel who indicated that they were able to take receipt of the papers on behalf of Mr. Sanders, however, they were not located in Boulder County, so we transferred the paperwork to Denver to be served,” Haverfield wrote. “We did not find any university staff to be attempting to block the civil service, on the contrary, they were attempting to help our deputy find a better time to do so.”

USA Today reported Sunday that Deion Sanders was to be summoned to testify in his son’s upcoming trial, which is scheduled to begin Aug. 31, three days before the Buffaloes are scheduled to take on Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

In a pretrial conference held this past Friday, Romero noticed the subpoena attempt for Deion Sanders and the timing of the start of Colorado’s season, USA Today reported.

“I am not a CU alum, or I have no ties to CU,” Romero said, according to USA Today. “So I don’t care. But I’m just recognizing that is a potential issue.”

Deion Sanders is entering his fourth year as head coach at Colorado. The Buffaloes are coming off a 3-9 season one year after winning nine games when they were guided by Sanders’ other son, quarterback Shedeur Sanders, and eventual Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter.