{"id":582294,"date":"2025-11-20T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/582294\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:10:22","slug":"liverpool-viewed-as-frontrunners-to-sign-extraordinary-player-ahead-of-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/582294\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool viewed as frontrunners to sign ‘extraordinary’ player ahead of Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Liverpool are leading Manchester United in the transfer race for Bournemouth winger Antoine Semenyo, one journalist has said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It has emerged recently that the Cherries ace, who has six Premier League goals already this season, has a \u00a365m release clause<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One report has suggested that Liverpool are \u2018confident\u2019 about signing Semenyo<\/a> from Bournemouth in 2026.<\/p>\n

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But given his fairly attractive release clause, which is active for all clubs, he may well have interest from elsewhere in the coming transfer windows.<\/p>\n

On that front, potential interest from Manchester United has been mooted by one journalist this week.<\/p>\n

\"Liverpool'sPhoto by DARREN STAPLES\/AFP via Getty ImagesLiverpool frontrunners for Antoine Semenyo ahead of Manchester United<\/p>\n

Nathan Salt has held a Man Utd Q&A via the Daily Mail<\/a>, with a Semenyo deal among the topics discussed.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, he also mentioned interest in Liverpool transfer target Marc Guehi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cAntoine Semenyo<\/a> is one to watch, even if Liverpool<\/a> are viewed as frontrunners in that particular pursuit, and expect United to be watching Marc Guehi\u2019s situation with interest given his contract will be six months from expiring.<\/p>\n

\u201cA centre back is on the agenda with limited progress made on extending Harry Maguire\u2019s deal, which expires in the summer. He will be free to sign a pre-contract agreement with clubs abroad in around six weeks\u2019 time as things stand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile United are not expecting significant activity in January, they are not ruling out bringing forward moves for summer targets if the chance presents itself. Look at how they made a late play to get Baleba, a player who remains their No 1 target, in the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Antoine Semenyo highly regarded by Rooney, Owen and more<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen what the future holds for the winger, who has received high praise amid a prolific 12 months for Bournemouth.<\/p>\n

This week, Wayne Rooney praised Semenyo<\/a>, naming him among his top-three Premier League players in the 2025\/26 season.<\/p>\n

Michael Owen called the Liverpool target \u2018brilliant\u2019<\/a> earlier this year and urged his former side to get a deal done.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, speaking late last month, as quoted by 3News<\/a>, Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola dubbed Semenyo \u2018extraordinary\u2019.<\/p>\n

Guardiola said: \u201cHe [Semenyo] is very good, absolutely he is. He\u2019s an extraordinary player.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are leading Manchester United in the transfer race for Bournemouth winger Antoine Semenyo, one journalist has said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[16239,748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-582294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-antoine-semenyo","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115581487554332130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582294","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=582294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}