{"id":207205,"date":"2025-12-23T18:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207205\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:07:07","slug":"antoine-semenyo-bournemouth-forward-to-decide-future-as-chelsea-show-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207205\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Semenyo: Bournemouth forward to decide future as Chelsea show interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antoine Semenyo has started the process of deciding his future as Chelsea<\/a> became the latest club to register an interest in the Bournemouth<\/a> forward.<\/p>\n

Sources with knowledge of the situation have told BBC Sport that five clubs have enquired about the 25-year-old, to varying degrees, before the January transfer window.<\/p>\n

Those clubs are understood to be Manchester City<\/a>, Manchester United<\/a>, Liverpool<\/a>, Tottenham<\/a> and now Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two Manchester clubs are believed to have had the most concrete conversations thus far.<\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> have also checked on the conditions of a deal for Semenyo and it remains to be seen if they accelerate their initial interest in light of Alexander Isak’s broken leg.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tottenham<\/a> are believed to be outsiders for the signature of the Ghana international, who joined the Cherries in 2023 from Bristol City.<\/p>\n

Chelsea<\/a>‘s move for Semenyo provides an intriguing late twist in the race to land the attacker, who has a \u00a365m release clause that is only active for the first 10 days of January. That clause was necessary to keep him at Bournemouth<\/a> when agreeing his new contract in July.<\/p>\n

The price, though, will drop slightly in the summer window.<\/p>\n

That situation could appeal to Chelsea<\/a>, who already have several wide options, including Pedro Neto, Estevao Willian, Alejandro Garnacho and Jamie Gittens. <\/p>\n

The Blues have previously found both release clauses and signing players in advance attractive, with Strasbourg’s Dutch striker Emmanuel Emegha, 22, and Sporting’s 18-year-old Portuguese winger Geovany Quenda joining next summer after finalising transfers. <\/p>\n

They previously showed interest in Semenyo as a 19-year-old in January 2019, when he was on loan at Newport County from Bristol City.<\/p>\n

Bournemouth<\/a> accept they are vulnerable to losing their key player and willing to negotiate with any club prepared to allow him to stay with them until the end of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antoine Semenyo has started the process of deciding his future as Chelsea became the latest club to register…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-207205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207205","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=207205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}