Savio involvement for City fell sharply last season after the club signed winger Antoine Semenyo from Bournemouth in January.
He played 821 Premier League minutes, scoring once and providing one assist, while featuring in only 31% of City’s available minutes across all competitions.
That was a significant drop from the previous campaign, when he played 54% of City’s minutes.
Yet his 2024-25 numbers show why Tottenham are prepared to invest heavily in him. Savio registered eight Premier League assists that season, all from open play, despite playing only 1,773 minutes. Only five players recorded more from open play.
On a per-90 basis, he ranked third for open-play assists with 0.41, while only Mohamed Salah created more chances per 90 than Savio’s 2.2.
His biggest threat, though, came from carrying the ball. Among Premier League players with at least 1,000 minutes in 2024-25, only Jeremy Doku averaged more progressive carries of at least 10 metres than Savio’s 6.8 per 90.
Savio also led the division for carries followed by a chance created, averaging 1.3 per 90, while only Son Heung-min ended a carry with an assist more frequently.
He completed 2.6 dribbles per 90 with a 51% success rate and used those carries to draw defenders towards him before releasing team-mates.
That ability was even more evident during his breakout 2023-24 season on loan at Girona. Savio played 2,989 minutes in La Liga in 2023-24, with 65% of them coming on the left wing. He scored nine goals, supplied eight assists and established himself as one of the division’s most dangerous one-against-one players.
At City his role shifted. Across his two Premier League seasons, his most common position was on the right, accounting for 36% of his minutes, compared with 20% on the left. That versatility could matter at Spurs.