{"id":207069,"date":"2025-12-23T16:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207069\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:11:06","slug":"chelsea-enter-hunt-for-65m-antoine-semenyo-with-inquiry-about-his-terms-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207069\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea enter hunt for \u00a365m Antoine Semenyo with inquiry about his terms | Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea have made an inquiry about signing Antoine Semenyo from Bournemouth<\/a>. The winger\u2019s deal contains a \u00a365m release clause in January and he is also a target for Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United.<\/p>\n

Chelsea were not regarded as a likely destination for Semenyo but have contacted the player\u2019s camp to explore the conditions of a deal. There is optimism at Stamford Bridge that the Ghana international will be interested in joining. Chelsea<\/a> hope Semenyo, who is from London, will appreciate their long-term project and see an opportunity to make an immediate impact at a top club.<\/p>\n

The view at Chelsea is that the 25-year-old would give their squad a different dimension. Semenyo would offer an added aerial threat and enviable pace and power. He has scored eight goals and provided three assists in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n

Chelsea are not short of options in attacking midfield, with Enzo Maresca able to choose from Cole Palmer, Jamie Gittens, Pedro Neto, Alejandro Garnacho, Est\u00eav\u00e3o Willian, Jo\u00e3o Pedro and Facundo Buonanotte, who is on loan from Brighton. But the club like Semenyo\u2019s versatility and the fact he has proved himself in the Premier League. Semenyo can play on both flanks and as a striker.<\/p>\n

Bournemouth will be hopeful of keeping Semenyo for the rest of the season but have shown they are not averse to selling their best players<\/a>. Their manager, Andoni Iraola, said on Tuesday: \u201cHe has trained today with us, very well. I understand that there is a lot of noise around Antoine but my concern is that it doesn\u2019t affect him, his performances, and we are seeing that it is not affecting his performances. He is very committed to the team and I hope we can keep him there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are situations that we cannot control but right now Antoine is our player and he\u2019s going to continue playing for us. If you ask me, I don\u2019t want to lose him, definitely don\u2019t want to lose him. But like we always say, every time the market opens, you never know what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have made an inquiry about signing Antoine Semenyo from Bournemouth. The winger\u2019s deal contains a \u00a365m release…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-207069","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\/207069","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=207069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}