Savinho

[Bishop]

If he ain't good enough for pep, he ain't good enough for us. Need players on the way up, not the way down.

That's a silly comment, so you wouldn't have taken Cole Palmer, Yaya Toure, Eto, Zlatan, Mandzukic etc?

None were good enough for Pep.

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

Its likely this is the deal we make.......................I don't rate the lad anywhere near what we will end up paying. So be it

 

[billyiddo]

I feel that his reputation is based more off being Brazilian and playing for City than it is anything he has done on a football pitch for a few years

 

[SpurMeUp]

If he ain't good enough for pep, he ain't good enough for us. Need players on the way up, not the way down.

I tend to take this view. But we have seen the likes of Salah at Chelsea and many others fail and come back to become world beaters. Grealish even. And age is on Savinhos side.

 

[NorwegianSpursFan]

Well, he’s starting for city tonight.

 

[Bishop]

I feel that his reputation is based more off being Brazilian and playing for City than it is anything he has done on a football pitch for a few years

Honestly my view of him is from when he was named Savio and played for Girona. He played on the left and had a playmaker/goal instigator role. He was very, very good there, which is what led to the City move in the first place.

I don't know if a move from City will reinvigorate him but I do see that at City they tend to play him on the right and as a direct cut in threat whereas at his best he was a little bit more indirect and a linker and creative attacker who could also finish. Pep never really uses him in that way and so I kind of wonder if a return to that style would get those kind of performances out of him.