The sought-after striker becomes the Premier League club\u2019s first signing of the January transfer window.<\/p>\n
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Manchester City have signed Ghana forward Antoine Semenyo from Bournemouth to strengthen their attacking options ahead of the team\u2019s tilt at the Premier League and Champions League titles.<\/p>\n
Semenyo, who has scored 10 goals and been one of the best attackers in English football this season, became the European giants\u2019 first signing of the January transfer window on Friday.<\/p>\n
He has moved in a deal worth a reported 65 million pounds ($87m) that runs until the end of the 2031 season.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old, who can play on both wings, is the third-highest scorer in the Premier League this season with 10 goals. He also has three assists.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have watched City over the last decade under Pep Guardiola, and they have been \u200bthe dominant team in the Premier \u200cLeague as well as achieving amazing things in the Champions League, FA Cup and League Cup,\u201d Semenyo said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have set \u200cthe highest of standards and it\u2019s a club with world-class players, world-class \u200cfacilities and one of the greatest \u2060managers ever in Pep.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have so much scope for improvement, so to be at this club, at this stage of my career, is \u200cperfect for me. It\u2019s a real privilege to be here. My best football is yet to come, I \u200dam sure of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll provide competition to City\u2019s stock of wingers that already includes Jeremy Doku, Omar Marmoush, Savinho and Oscar Bobb. Savinho and Bobb are currently injured, while Marmoush \u2013 currently at the Africa Cup of Nations \u2013 has been out of favour this season.<\/p>\n
Semenyo was also linked with Manchester United and Liverpool. He was at Bournemouth for two and a half seasons after joining from second-tier Bristol City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sought-after striker becomes the Premier League club\u2019s first signing of the January transfer window. Published On 9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[63,1366,311,79,96,310,1367],"class_list":{"0":"post-13223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ghana","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ghana","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}