{"id":144191,"date":"2025-11-17T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144191\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:01:10","slug":"man-city-battle-liverpool-tottenham-for-75m-forward-pep-guardiola-has-called-extraordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144191\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City battle Liverpool, Tottenham for \u00a375m forward Pep Guardiola has called &#8216;extraordinary&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have joined Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur in the pursuit of Bournemouth ace Antoine Semenyo, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports\u00a0report that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/manchester-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man City<\/a>, Liverpool and Tottenham are all \u2018monitoring Semenyo ahead of the January transfer window\u2019. City and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> are \u2018thinking about new forward options\u2019 and have both identified Semenyo as a top target, while Tottenham are \u2018looking at signing a left winger in January\u2019 and are huge admirers of the Cherries talisman.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United looked into signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/antoine-semenyo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Semenyo<\/a> over the summer before bringing in Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo. The Red Devils have since cooled their interest in Semenyo, leaving City, Liverpool and Spurs as his main suitors.<\/p>\n<p>How Antoine Semenyo impressed elite clubs<\/p>\n<p>Stepped up to the Premier League in January 2023 by joining Bournemouth for \u00a310.5million<br \/>\nTook his game to the next level last season, notching 13 goals and seven assists in 42 games<br \/>\nOnly Erling Haaland and Igor Thiago have scored more than Semenyo\u2019s six league goals this term<\/p>\n<p>Semenyo penned a new contract at Bournemouth in the summer, but he is aware of the interest in his services and is open to a big-money move.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13470257\/antoine-semenyo-liverpool-man-city-and-spurs-monitoring-bournemouth-forward-ahead-of-january-transfer-window\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Sports<\/a>\u00a0add that the Ghana international is \u2018annoyed\u2019 about claims he has \u2018asked to leave\u2019 Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>Bids from the likes of City, Liverpool and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/tottenham-hotspur\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spurs<\/a> \u2018cannot be ruled out\u2019 heading into the winter window.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">READ NEXT\u00a0\ud83d\udcaa\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/news\/man-city-transfer-news-morten-hjulmand-man-utd-sporting-cp-discount\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man City, Man Utd learn of \u20ac30m discount for \u2018tenacious\u2019 midfield signing \u2013 \u2018everything will change\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth to make huge profit on winger<\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth are expected to demand \u00a375m (\u20ac85m \/ $99m) before selling Semenyo, reflecting his status as one of the very best players in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, before City\u2019s 3-1 win over Bournemouth on November 2, City boss Pep Guardiola said of Semenyo: \u201cHe\u2019s very good, absolutely. He\u2019s an extraordinary player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s improving every game. Players like him make this league special \u2013 always hungry, always brave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This update comes after we revealed on Thursday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/liverpool\/reds-fight-tottenham-explosive-prem-attacker-sources-reveal-all-transfer-battle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool are preparing to fight Spurs for the 25-year-old\u2019s capture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was claimed earlier this week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/news\/liverpool-antoine-semenyo-january-transfer-chances-bournemouth-star-asks-to-leave\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Semenyo has requested a January move away from Bournemouth<\/a>, but\u00a0such speculation has now been shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Sources confirmed to us on October 17 that Spurs are still chasing Semenyo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/tottenham-hotspur\/spurs-antoine-semenyo-transfer-fabio-paratici-man-utd-battle-100-million-sources\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">even after the return of joint sporting director Fabio Paratici<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We understand Spurs hold interest in Monaco\u2019s Maghnes Akliouche, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/tottenham-hotspur\/spurs-maghnes-akliouche-transfer-monaco-champions-league-game-sources\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but Semenyo is their top attacking target<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How Semenyo could fit in at Man City<\/p>\n<p>News of City joining the hunt for Semenyo comes at an interesting time, given Jeremy Doku\u2019s thrilling performance against Liverpool last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>That was Doku\u2019s best display in a City shirt so far, and it would therefore be extremely harsh for Guardiola to replace him with Semenyo on the left flank in January.<\/p>\n<p>Semenyo is versatile though and could operate as a right winger at the Etihad. He is a more devastating attacker than Savinho, who has netted just four goals in 61 appearances for City so far.<\/p>\n<p>Semenyo replacing Savinho would also be a twist, however. City handed the latter with a new long-term contract in October after preventing him from joining Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Frank\u2019s side are showing the strongest interest in Semenyo, but City joining the race could seriously threaten his move to north London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City have joined Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur in the pursuit of Bournemouth ace Antoine Semenyo, it has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[912,82622,15135,913,914,42,1101,8579,43,3106,40,38,41,39,3568,915],"class_list":["post-144191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-all-the-news","tag-antoine-semenyo","tag-bournemouth","tag-english-premier-league","tag-front-page","tag-headlines","tag-liverpool","tag-manchester-city","tag-news","tag-popular","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-transfer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}