According to reports, Manchester United reached an \u2018agreement\u2019 over signing Antoine Semenyo in the summer amid \u2018interest\u2019 from Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n
In the summer, Man Utd<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s first focus was on overhauling their attack and they invested around \u00a3200m to sign Benjamin Sesko, Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha.<\/p>\n United made this a priority as they were toothless in attack last season and Semenyo<\/strong> <\/a>was mentioned as a potential alternative before they settled on Mbeumo and Cunha as their preferred No.10 targets.<\/p>\n 25-year-old Semenyo enjoyed a breakout season for Bournemouth in 2024\/25, grabbing eleven goals and five assists in the Premier League.<\/p>\n Semenyo has also sparkled at the start of this campaign and has three goal involvements in three matches, though journalist Duncan Castles claims he came close to joining Man Utd in the summer.<\/p>\n \u201cAntoine Semenyo at Bournemouth, we can tell you, was aggressively targeted by Man Utd, starting back in March,\u201d Castles said on The Transfers podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Now or never for Manuel Ugarte to fill Man Utd and Amorim\u2019s massive hole<\/a> \u201cBoth Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox had direct conversations with Bournemouth about signing the forward, who had scored 11 goals last season.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring those conversations, United, I\u2019m told, said they would pay no more than \u00a355m for the player.<\/p>\n \u201cThey used the same strategy as with Cunha and Mbeumo in that they agreed personal terms with Semenyo before attempting to agree a fee with Bournemouth.<\/p>\n \u201cThey even had Amorim take him for a meal in London at the end of the season, so that Amorim could judge his character. Again, similar as to Cunha and Mbeumo.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Castles has also suggested that issues relating to the fee and salary for Semenyo were behind Man Utd\u2019s failure to land the talented attacker.<\/p>\n \u201cTottenham were also interested in signing the player, and Bournemouth used that to insist on a higher transfer fee and, after the Cunha deal, used that as a precedent on what they expected the transfer fee to at least meet.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then, I\u2019m told, Semenyo discovered that the salary he had agreed with Man Utd was going to be less than 70 per cent of what they were prepared to pay Cunha and Mbeumo.<\/p>\n \u201cBournemouth strategically used that to convince the player to sign a new contract until 2030, with the idea that he will spend at least one more season at Bournemouth before moving on to another club.<\/p>\n \u201cGuidance from Man Utd is that they saw Semenyo as an alternative to either Cunha or Mbeumo, but Bournemouth believe that they were prepared to do all three of those deals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to reports, Manchester United reached an \u2018agreement\u2019 over signing Antoine Semenyo in the summer amid \u2018interest\u2019 from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[16239,180,94,225,98,12,101,79,201,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-398826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-antoine-semenyo","9":"tag-bournemouth","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tottenham-hotspur","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115149353915094089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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