{"id":651117,"date":"2025-12-23T21:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/651117\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:07:30","slug":"antoine-semenyos-preference-to-join-manchester-city-from-bournemouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/651117\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Semenyo\u2019s preference to join Manchester City from Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bournemouth forward Antoine Semenyo\u2019s preference is to move to Manchester City in January.<\/p>\n

Semenyo\u2019s desire to win trophies is key to his wish to join Pep Guardiola\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

As yet nothing formal has been agreed, with the January transfer window not open for another week.<\/p>\n

The Athletic reported on Tuesday Chelsea had decided against pursuing a move for Semenyo, 25, after making an initial enquiry.<\/p>\n

Manchester United also tried their best to sign the forward, but a move in January was always going to be a stretch and the club only wished to bring in players who are eager to join. The decision was not due to Ruben Amorim\u2019s system, with United never planning to play Semenyo at wing-back.<\/p>\n

Tottenham Hotspur looked into a deal for the forward<\/a> in the summer and The Athletic\u00a0reported in the Transfer DealSheet<\/a> in December that he was also among several players admired by Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Semenyo has enjoyed a strong 2025-26 campaign, providing eight goals and three assists in 16 Premier League appearances.<\/p>\n

His contract with Bournemouth, which runs until 2030, contains a \u00a365million release clause in January \u2013 as revealed by The Athletic on November 17.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ghana international was valued at \u00a370m by Bournemouth in the summer, but the sale price for the winter is now formally set at \u00a365m. It must be activated by a specific date, which would give Bournemouth a couple of weeks to replace their best player, and is available to any team. If he remains with the club in January, the mechanism will again be available once the subsequent transfer window opens, at an even lower figure.<\/p>\n

Bournemouth sold several key players in the summer following a successful 2024-25 season under Andoni Iraola.<\/p>\n

Centre-back Dean Huijsen moved to Real Madrid in May when the La Liga club capitalised on a \u00a350m clause. Bournemouth also sold left-back Milos Kerkez, central defender Illia Zabarnyi and winger Dango Ouattara. A year earlier, Dominic Solanke, who himself had a \u00a365m exit provision, left to join Tottenham.<\/p>\n

Semenyo has made 106\u00a0appearances for Bournemouth since signing from Championship side Bristol City in January 2023, recording 30 goals and 13 assists.<\/p>\n

Why are City targeting Semenyo?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Analysis from The Athletic\u2019s Manchester City Correspondent Jordan Campbell<\/p>\n

A hallmark of every Pep Guardiola team has been incisive wide players who can eliminate opponents in one-versus-one situations and contribute double figures in goals.<\/p>\n

As much as Jeremy Doku looks to be improving his end product, Guardiola admitted in his press conference after the 3-0 win against Liverpool that it is unlikely the Belgium winger will ever be one of City\u2019s top scorers.<\/p>\n

Savinho and Oscar Bobb do not quite have the killer instinct in the final third yet, either. It means City have not quite replaced the output of Riyad Mahrez, or even Leroy Sane and Raheem Sterling.<\/p>\n

The reliance on Erling Haaland has become pronounced, and Semenyo would offer a direct threat from either wing, improving City on the counter-attack.<\/p>\n

City are developing into title contenders. Adding Semenyo would be a statement, the arrival of a peak-age player who could be relied upon to be a match-winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bournemouth forward Antoine Semenyo\u2019s preference is to move to Manchester City in January. Semenyo\u2019s desire to win trophies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[180,748,393,4884,2465,886,98,101,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-651117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-bournemouth","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-city","14":"tag-manchester-united","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115770927767601528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651117","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=651117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}