{"id":235850,"date":"2026-01-09T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235850\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:07:06","slug":"antoine-semenyo-manchester-city-sign-bournemouth-winger-in-deal-worth-about-65m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235850\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Semenyo: Manchester City sign Bournemouth winger in deal worth about \u00a365m"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City<\/a> beat Premier League rivals Manchester United<\/a>, Liverpool<\/a>, Spurs and Chelsea<\/a> to Semenyo’s signature.<\/p>\n

“Antoine is a really exciting signing for the football club. He made it clear to us immediately that it was City he wanted to join,” director of football Hugo Viana said.<\/p>\n

“He has huge quality. Two great feet, pace, power, a habit of influencing games and, importantly, real room for growth and development. <\/p>\n

“We are constantly watching players all over the world. Antoine was the one we most wanted. He has shown he can perform in the Premier League. He is humble, hard-working, professional and totally focused on being a better footballer. He is ideal for us.”<\/p>\n

Semenyo scored four goals in his last six games for the Cherries, putting him third in this season’s Premier League goalscoring charts with 10 from 20 games – behind new City team-mate Erling Haaland (20) and Brentford<\/a>‘s Igor Thiago (16).<\/p>\n

He needs just one more league goal to equal his previous best for a season, having scored 11 in 36 Premier League starts last term.<\/p>\n

Bournemouth<\/a> signed Semenyo from Bristol City for about \u00a310m in January 2023<\/a> and he leaves the Cherries after with 32 goals and 13 assists from 110 appearances in all competitions.<\/p>\n

Semenyo started his career in the Championship, claiming 21 goals and 21 assists in 125 games for the Robins, having had loan spells with Sunderland<\/a>, Newport County and non-league side Bath City.<\/p>\n

After joining Bournemouth<\/a> on a four-and-a-half-year deal, Semenyo signed a contract extension<\/a> last summer – which had been due to end in 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City beat Premier League rivals Manchester United, Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea to Semenyo’s signature. “Antoine is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-235850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235850","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=235850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}