Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nThe Ghana international has scored nine goals and assisted five more in his 19 appearances this season.<\/p>\n
Bournemouth’s Ghanaian striker #24 Antoine Semeny.Source: AFP<\/p>\n
The player had a \u00a365 million release clause in his Bournemouth contract and the club was ultimately resigned to losing a player who has become pivotal to their success.<\/p>\n
There were hopes, however, they could keep Semenyo until the end of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know there is lots of noise around him,\u201d Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola said last month.<\/p>\n
\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
\u201c(A) situation we cannot control, but Antoine right now is our player, going to continue playing for us.<\/p>\n
City end 5-game winless run | 00:35<\/p>\n
\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
The arrival of Semenyo comes as a huge boost to second-placed City, who trail Arsenal by six points in the Premier League title race. He bolsters an already-potent attack featuring the likes of Erling Haaland, Phil Foden, Rayan Cherki and Jeremy Doku.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breakout Premier League star Antoine Semenyo is poised to join Manchester City in a blockbuster January transfer. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6074,211545,64,63,689,1208,12032,2057,28198,211546,2105,42230,211549,211547,211551,11999,6255,647,51011,3583,677,24938,92962,211548,50009,85,211550,660,67624],"class_list":["post-396806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-already-potent-attack","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-england","tag-erreala","tag-europe","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-four-club-race","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-ghana","tag-ghanaian-striker","tag-in-demand-player","tag-leading-football-reporter","tag-manchester-city-football-club","tag-manchester-united-football-club","tag-melbourne","tag-michael-steele","tag-northern-europe","tag-oceania","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-phil-foden","tag-relationship-breakdown","tag-release-clause","tag-sports","tag-transfer-value-clause","tag-victoria","tag-western-africa-sub-saharan-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396806","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=396806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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