{"id":368688,"date":"2025-12-24T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368688\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:48:08","slug":"antoine-semenyo-set-to-sign-with-manchester-city-five-club-race-for-semenyo-news-videos-transfers-january-transfer-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368688\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Semenyo set to sign with Manchester City, five club race for Semenyo, news, videos, transfers, January transfer window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Premier League\u2019s breakout stars, Antoine Semenyo, is poised to make a move to Manchester City in a mammoth January switch.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx2djq1jdrdo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>, Semenyo\u2019s camp and City officials have had positive talks in recent days, with a host of clubs interested in the 25-year-old\u2019s services.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester United were reportedly the rivals in the race for his signature.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/content.foxsports.com.au\/fs\/electrode\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch the biggest Aussie sports &amp; the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkgeneric-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-grc-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Liverpool have also reportedly inquired about the winger\u2019s availability after their marquee signing Alexander Isak suffered a broken leg.<\/p>\n<p>City\u2019s cross-town rivals, United, reportedly pulled out of the race as they understood Semenyo would be joining the Manchester team in blue.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana international has scored eight goals and assisted three more in his 16 appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p>Antoine Semenyo of AFC Bournemouth could be on the move.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Semenyo has a \u00a365 million ($131m AUD) release clause in his Bournemouth contract and the club are resigned to losing a player who has become pivotal to their success.<\/p>\n<p>However, they are hopeful any negotiations could see him remain at his current club until the end of the season, instead of making a permanent move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know there is lots of noise around him,\u201d Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola said.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham move clear of EPL drop zone | 00:43<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(It is) not my concern, my concern is it doesn\u2019t affect his performances. It is not doing, he is very committed to the team and I hope we can keep him here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(A) situation we cannot control, but Antoine right now is our player, going to continue playing for us. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you ask me, I don\u2019t want to lose him, definitely don\u2019t. But every time the market opens, you never know what is going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Semenyo\u2019s decision will reportedly come down to his own personal ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Premier League\u2019s breakout stars, Antoine Semenyo, is poised to make a move to Manchester City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-368688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}