Manchester City have agreed to loan Omar Marmoush to Tottenham for the season, with an obligation to buy the forward for an initial £50m, and struck a deal to sell Nico González to Newcastle for £52m. Because nothing says 'financial stability' like shipping out your squad like it's a clearance sale.

Marmoush is to have a medical at Spurs, who have agreed to pay up to £10m in add-ons, with half of that guaranteed. Next summer the 27-year-old is to sign a four-year contract with a one-year option. City are not due to give a sell-on fee to Eintracht Frankfurt, from whom they bought the Egyptian in January 2025. So Frankfurt gets nothing, Spurs get a player, and City gets to pretend this was all part of the plan.

Marmoush is following Sávio in leaving City for Spurs, who bought the Brazilian winger in a £75m plus £10m deal on Tuesday. Because why buy one player when you can buy two and call it a strategy?

González is poised to become the fourth frontline central midfielder to depart City this summer, after Rodri, Bernardo Silva and Tijjani Reijnders. City have signed only Elliott Anderson, for £116m from Nottingham Forest, though they have agreed a €100m (£85.7m) deal for Lille’s Ayyoub Bouaddi, another midfielder, and a £34m fee for Palmeiras’s Allan Elias, who is Sávio’s replacement as a wide forward. So they're selling midfielders and buying midfielders, which is a bit like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, but with more zeros.

City are expected to firm up their interest in Chelsea’s Enzo Fernández by making a bid. The west London club value the midfielder at £120m. Because why not? At this rate, they'll be signing players with Monopoly money.