The 1.76 meter tall Savio Moreira de Oliveira, football name Savinho, is seen as one of the great young talents in Brazilian football. At the age of 18, the left-footed right winger already has 32 duels at the highest level for Atletico Mineiro to his name. The young attacker is fast, technically skilled and has a good dribble.
Savinho is attracted by Manchester City, but will not be active for the English champions next season. It is also not yet clear whether Savinho will be directly on the payroll of Manchester City because of the new restrictive measures on the rental of players, which FIFA will introduce in 2024.
Where initially the French Troyes, part of the City Group, was in the picture as a temporary employer, Savinho has expressly expressed his preference for an intermediate step at PSV, which is still well regarded in Brazil due to the Eindhoven adventures of players such as Romario, Ronaldo. , Alex and Gomes.
Rekik, Zinchencko and Angelino
Manchester City has good experiences with the rental of players to PSV. For example, Karim Rekik was sold well after his rental period (for 5 million euros to Olympique Marseille) and Oleksander Zinchenko grew into a regular base player after an intermediate step in Eindhoven. And Angelino also came to fruition in Eindhoven. The left back was taken over from Manchester City by PSV after a rental period at NAC for 5.5 million euros, after which The Citizens bought it back for 12 million euros a year later and sold it again two years later for 18 million euros to RB Leipzig.
PSV will focus this summer on talents who do not yet have enough playing time elsewhere and are trying to take advantage of temporarily bringing in these players, who are normally too pricey to attract. For example, the people from Brabant already rented Ki-Jana Hoever, who was acquired from Wolverhampton Wanderers two years ago for almost ten million euros, for one year. In addition, Xavi Simons is also about to join PSV on a rental basis. The 19-year-old creative midfielder is close to an agreement with Paris Saint-Germain on extending his contract, according to media in France and Italy, and would then be loaned to PSV. The people of Eindhoven have reported for Simons some time ago, sources around the player confirm.
The French top club sees plenty of growth potential in the Dutch youth international, who made the switch to PSG from the FC Barcelona academy in 2019. The problem is that Simons gets little playing time in Paris (eleven appearances in the first with a total of 331 playing minutes) and it is good for his development to get more time to play elsewhere.
Raiola . office
Simons is supervised by the real estate agency of the late Mino Raiola, with whom technical manager John de Jong and general manager Marcel Brands of PSV maintain a good relationship. Earlier this window, PSV had already strengthened itself with the transfer-free goalkeeper Walter Benitez, who is also accompanied by the agency of the late Raiola. With the departure of Mario Götze to Eintracht Frankfurt, PSV can use a creative attacking midfielder.
The disadvantage of bringing in mercenaries is that there is no big transfer income if they return to their original club after a successful period or make a lucrative transfer to another club. As a renting club, which has contributed to the development of a player, PSV also strives to share in such income to some extent and as a rule stipulates such provisions when entering into rental agreements.