Tottenham are signing a second Manchester City attacker in the same week. Fabrizio Romano reported on Sunday that the clubs have a verbal agreement on an initial loan for Omar Marmoush with an obligation to buy worth £50 million, an obligation that becomes mandatory once certain conditions are met rather than sitting as an option Spurs could walk away from.
Marmoush settled his side of it days ago. He agreed personal terms with Tottenham before the clubs closed the structure, and he travels to London today for a medical.
Read alongside Savinho, the shape of City's window becomes clear. Selling both raises at least £125 million, and up to £135 million if every add-on and condition lands, from two attacking players signed within the last two years. Enzo Maresca began the season with a Community Shield defeat and needed a substitute to rescue his first league game, and City are answering that by thinning the attack rather than adding to it.
For Tottenham it is the more interesting half of the double. Savinho is the marquee fee, but Marmoush is the one who solves a specific problem: a forward who can play centrally or off the left, who scored freely in Germany before his move to England, and who arrives on a structure that defers most of the cost to a season when Spurs will know whether it worked.
Nothing is official yet on either deal.