{"id":843891,"date":"2026-08-03T06:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843891\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:51:10","slug":"antoine-semenyo-man-city-forward-says-enzo-marescas-style-of-play-is-music-to-my-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843891\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Semenyo: Man City forward says Enzo Maresca&#8217;s style of play is &#8216;music to my ears&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Semenyo joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c801yv529z7o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City from Bournemouth for \u00a365m<\/a> in the January transfer window, with Guardiola fighting off competition from rivals Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham and Chelsea for his signature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The player says interest first came in early December with &#8220;a lot of talks&#8221; taking place, before he made the decision the following month that he wanted to join City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I owe them everything to be honest,&#8221; Semenyo said of former club Bournemouth. &#8220;They helped my Premier League career flourish and obviously the management, the staff behind the scenes, they were all amazing, they made everything so smooth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Semenyo scored a total of 21 goals for club and country last season, netting the winning goal in the FA Cup final win over Chelsea which he called a &#8220;dream come true&#8221;, as well as lifting the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking at Ahmad Tea&#8217;s Preparation is Everything event in Hong Kong, he added: &#8220;I think for me, I just wanted the next step to be the big one and Manchester City was the option. Pep spoke to me beforehand and he said, &#8216;look, when you come, I am going to make you a better player&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You want to get better, you want to improve every season and he definitely helped me with that in the first five months, but obviously sad for him to leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Semenyo joined City from Bournemouth for \u00a365m in the January transfer window, with Guardiola fighting off competition from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-843891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}