{"id":395962,"date":"2025-11-22T02:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/395962\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T02:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:29:26","slug":"pep-guardiola-replies-rooney-for-rating-semenyo-ahead-of-haaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/395962\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola replies Rooney for rating Semenyo ahead of Haaland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Pep-Guardiola-replies-Rooney-for-rating-Semenyo-ahead-of-Haaland-2010485?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/73994064.295.jpg\" alt=\"Sports pundit, Wayne Rooney and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola\" title=\"Sports pundit, Wayne Rooney and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/> <\/a>Sports pundit, Wayne Rooney and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has said that he has no problem with legendary footballer Wayne Rooney rating Antoine Semenyo ahead of Erling Haaland.<\/p>\n<p>Rooney named Bournemouth striker, Antoine Semenyo, Manchester United\u2019s Bryan Mbeumo, and Arsenal striker Viktor Gy\u00f6keres as his top three players in the 2025\/26 Premier League so far.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Amazon Prime Sport, Rooney snubbed Manchester City\u2019s Erling Haaland, noting that he has been impressed by Semenyo\u2019s consistency at AFC Bournemouth since last season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/They-love-Kante-but-hate-Bellingham-Ian-Wright-s-remark-sparks-online-storm-2010409\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018They love Kante but hate Bellingham\u2019 \u2014 Ian Wright\u2019s remark sparks online storm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at his pre-match conference ahead of the game against Newcastle United downplayed the comparison between Antoine Semenyo and Erling Haaland.<\/p>\n<p>A journalist asked: \u201cRooney picked his top three Premier League players so far: Semenyo, Mbeumo, and Gy\u00f6keres. No Erling Haaland&#8230; do you think he is right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola responded: \u201cHe\u2019s absolutely right. Wayne decides, fine. There is no problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Haaland is in blistering form, having scored 14 goals and provided one assist in 11 matches, with many pundits rating him among the best strikers in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Semenyo on the other hand has scored six goals and provided three assists in 11 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>SB\/JE<\/p>\n<p><b>Meanwhile, watch the feature about Swedru All Blacks&#8217; journey from the Division One to the GPL below<\/b><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports pundit, Wayne Rooney and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has said that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":395963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-395962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115590999253479004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}