{"id":801779,"date":"2026-07-15T12:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801779\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:12:08","slug":"bournemouth-transfers-talks-begin-for-benficas-antonio-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801779\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth transfers: Talks begin for Benfica’s Antonio Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bournemouth<\/a> are in talks with Benfica to sign Portugal defender Antonio Silva as a replacement for Marcos Senesi.<\/p>\n

The Cherries have targeted the 22-year-old following Senesi’s decision to leave<\/a> on a free transfer and join Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Silva is seen as a good ball-playing replacement for the Argentina centre-back, although Benfica have paused further progression in the talks as they look to get through Europa League qualifying.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese club face St Gallen in Switzerland on 23 July, with the return a week later in Lisbon.<\/p>\n

Silva has been a regular for Benfica since breaking into the first team in 2022 and has featured in the Champions League, Europa League and Club World Cup.<\/p>\n

He has 20 caps and was in Portugal’s squads for the 2022 World Cup and Euro 2024 but was not selected by Roberto Martinez for this summer’s tournament.<\/p>\n

Silva would become Bournemouth<\/a>‘s second signing of the summer after the arrival of striker Alvaro Rodriguez from Elche in a deal worth up to \u00a325.7m<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bournemouth<\/a>, who have a new manager in Marco Rose, are aiming for a summer of stability after selling more than \u00a3200m worth of players last year.<\/a><\/p>\n

They are determined to resist offers for three of their key players – Alex Scott, Rayan and Junior Kroupi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bournemouth are in talks with Benfica to sign Portugal defender Antonio Silva as a replacement for Marcos Senesi.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-801779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801779","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=801779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}