Antoine Semenyo has completed a move to Manchester City, signing a five-and-a-half-year deal from Bournemouth in a transfer worth £64m. The deal guarantees Bournemouth £62.5m. City’s spending over the past 12 months now stands at £425.9m, with 14 new signings added. Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham had also shown interest in Semenyo.
The attacker has agreed to a five-and-a-half-year deal with Pep Guardiola’s team, pushing Manchester City’s transfer spending over the past year to £425.9m across 14 signings. A formal announcement is due on Friday.
Manchester City reached an agreement with Bournemouth for Antoine Semenyo at £62.5m, below his £65m release clause, with a further £1.5m in performance-based add-ons and a 10 per cent sell-on clause included. City fended off interest from Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham to secure the 26-year-old’s signature.
Semenyo’s release clause allowed Bournemouth to retain him for an additional six months despite summer interest, with the eventual transfer exceeding all bids received at that stage.
The forward ended his Bournemouth career in dramatic fashion, scoring a stoppage-time winner to secure a 3–2 home win over Tottenham on Wednesday, before undergoing his Manchester City medical on Thursday.
Bristol City, who sold Semenyo to Bournemouth for around £10m in January 2023, are entitled to 20% of any profit made on the transfer.
Semenyo’s exit takes Bournemouth’s player sales to £266.5m over the past six months, following major departures including Dean Huijsen to Real Madrid (£50m), Milos Kerkez to Liverpool (£40m), Illia Zabarnyi to Paris Saint-Germain (£57m) and Dango Ouattara to Brentford (£42m).
