According to Fabrizio Romano, Manchester City are poised to complete the signing of Savio from Girona, well Troyes, but we'll come onto that part shortly!

Brazilian journalist Jorge Nicola has reported the fee will be PS25 million (EUR30 million), as translated by Lucas Sposito in Sport Witness, with 12.5% of this fee going to his former club Atletico Mineiro.

The deal will be completed as soon as Copa America concludes, with Savio part of Brazil's squad stateside, helping them reach the quarter-finals, hoping to go significantly further of course.

Savio: A product of City Football Group's global footprint Having broken through at Atletico Mineiro as a teenager, winning both the Brasileirao title and Copa do Brasil, Savio was signed by City Football Group in 2022 for around PS10 million and, as Marcelo Cardoso and Rodrigo Fonseca put it in Globo, he was 'assigned' to French club Troyes.

This makes him Troyes' all-time record signing but, as far as we know, he's never even set foot in France, spending a season on loan at PSV Eindhoven, having little impact, before an outstanding campaign on loan at Girona, also owned by CFG, scoring 11 goals and providing ten assists as Blanquivermells finished third in La Liga, qualifying for the Champions League.

As of 1 July, he is technically a Troyes player again, but he'll never be seen donning a blue shirt at Stade de l'Aube, especially given that the club were only spared back-to-back relegations, thereby dropping into Championnat National, following Ajaccio's bankruptcy.

So, Troyes have rather been exploited in this whole transaction, hence why their supporters are protesting against CFG at every game, although they are at least set to receive over PS25 million, well in theory at least.

Can Savio improve Manchester City's team? If you've never seen Savio play, he's a very exciting left-footed winger, usually deployed on the left by Michel at Girona last season, but is also able to play on the right too.

MORE NEWS.... At international level, he made his debut for Brazil as a late substitute against England at Wembley in March, doing enough, as alluded to earlier, to get into Dorival Junior's squad for the ongoing Copa America.

After another short cameo against Costa Rica in their opener at SoFi Stadium, Savio started against Paraguay at Allegiant Stadium four days later, marking the occasion with a goal on the cusp of half time in Las Vegas as the Selecao prevailed 4-1.

As ever, Brazil are expected to go all the way at Copa America, desperate to be featuring in the final at Hard Rock Stadium on 14 July; whenever they exit, straight after, Savio will fly to Manchester to complete his move to the team top of the City Football Group food-chain.

While he's unlikely to start for the Sky Blues straight away, he will certainly be a useful player for Pep Guardiola to have at his disposal.