They just don't want to sell him. And it's City, they know they don't have to.
It was a decent bit of market intelligence to sniff out that Savinho wanted to leave, and past cases with Pep indicated that they might just want rid under those circumstances, and had Rodrygo been possible for them maybe Savinho was possible for us. We weren't completely wasting our time on this one initially.
But the chain of events didn't work that way and its over now. Savinho has 4 years left on his deal and no leverage, City has made their mind up, no amount of money we bid is going to change their mind.