{"id":21868,"date":"2025-10-04T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21868"},"modified":"2025-10-04T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:04:16","slug":"savinho-extends-man-city-deal-to-2031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21868","title":{"rendered":"Savinho extends Man City deal to 2031"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Brazil winger Savinho signed a new contract with Manchester City on Friday, tying himself to the Premier League heavyweights until 2031, with an option to extend the deal by a further 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old was a target for Tottenham during the transfer window but Spurs were reportedly put off by City&#8217;s \u00a370 million ($94 million) valuation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite struggling to hold down a regular starting spot in Pep Guardiola&#8217;s side, Savinho provided 13 assists and scored three goals during 48 appearances last season &#8212; his first in English football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am incredibly proud to be able to sign this new contract with City,&#8221; Savinho said in a club statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very special feeling to know that Pep and the club have placed such faith in me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel I have so much improving to do &#8212; I am still young and very hungry to keep learning. But I know that working with Pep and his staff will help me to keep developing as a player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Capped 13 times by Brazil, Savinho made his breakthrough in European football at Girona, one of City Football Group&#8217;s portfolio of clubs, helping them qualify for the Champions League at the end of the 2023-24 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He then moved to the Etihad in a \u00a331 million transfer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Savinho is still very young, but he has already demonstrated that he possesses the qualities needed to become a truly outstanding player,&#8221; said City&#8217;s director of football Hugo Viana.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil winger Savinho signed a new contract with Manchester City on Friday, tying himself to the Premier League heavyweights until 2031, with an option to extend the deal by a further 12 months. The 21-year-old was a target for Tottenham during the transfer window but Spurs were reportedly put off by City&#8217;s \u00a370 million ($94 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}