{"id":200096,"date":"2025-12-19T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200096\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:24:07","slug":"semenyo-a-january-target-for-manchester-united-as-well-as-liverpool-and-city-transfer-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200096\/","title":{"rendered":"Semenyo a January target for Manchester United as well as Liverpool and City | Transfer window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Manchester United are vying with Liverpool and Manchester City to sign Antoine Semenyo from Bournemouth in early January, with Ruben Amorim having first expressed an interest in the 25-year-old last summer. The forward is thought to favour joining Liverpool, with City his second choice, so United\u2019s head coach faces a fight to convince him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Semenyo, who scored in Monday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/dec\/15\/manchester-united-bournemouth-premier-league-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-4 draw at Old Trafford<\/a>, has a release clause understood to be slightly less than \u00a365m, with the sum including loyalty money and agent payments. It has to be triggered early next month, the Guardian understands. Tottenham are also interested but appear to have a slim chance of landing the former Bristol City player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/liverpool\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> manager, Arne Slot, is intent on acquiring Semenyo as the successor to Mohamed Salah, and City have made contact with the player and his representatives. Although Pep Guardiola is contracted until June 2027, there is uncertainty regarding his future. The City manager may consider departing this summer but this should not affect any decision Semenyo makes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Amorim wants Semenyo to strengthen his options at wingback and forward. Before United\u2019s draw with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/bournemouth\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bournemouth<\/a> Amorim described the Ghana international as a \u201cspecial\u201d footballer. Amorim wants him to operate primarily as a left-wingback or No 10. At left-wingback, Patrick Dorgu, Amorim\u2019s first signing last January, has failed to impress and his other option, Diogo Dalot, is primarily a right-back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Amorim has lost the forwards Amad Diallo and Bryan Mbeumo to, respectively, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Cameroon, who are at the Africa Cup of Nations. Ghana have not qualified so Semenyo is free to move next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">United, who travel to Aston Villa on Sunday, are enjoying the best run of form of Amorim\u2019s 13-month tenure, losing only once in 10 games, and are sixth, a place above Liverpool. City are second, two points behind Arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United are vying with Liverpool and Manchester City to sign Antoine Semenyo from Bournemouth in early January,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-200096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200096","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=200096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}