Antoine Semenyo – where will he fit in at Manchester City?

Manchester Metropolis have accomplished the signing of winger Antoine Semenyo from Bournemouth for a price of £62.5 million.

The 26-year-old, who was born and raised in London however represents Ghana, indicators a 5 and a half 12 months deal on the membership, and is reported to have chosen a transfer to the Etihad Stadium regardless of curiosity from Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea.

The lure of profitable trophies and taking part in underneath Pep Guardiola is alleged to be the primary purpose behind Semenyo selecting Metropolis, and the deal was accomplished as sporting director Hugo Viana negotiated his £65 million launch clause right down to a barely cheaper price with an included sell-on price, and to unfold the complete cost out throughout a number of years.

Metropolis haven’t tended to be lively within the January switch window up till final season, the place they went loopy with the signings of Abdukodir Khusanov, Vitor Reis, Omar Marmoush and Nico Gonzalez for a mixed €221 million.

Marmoush, Savinho and Oscar Bobb haven’t carried out this season for one purpose or one other, while Semenyo has sparkled for the Cherries and can undoubtedly enhance Metropolis’s depth and high quality within the large positions.

So right here’s the place we expect he’ll slot in at Metropolis.

Semenyo is a direct, bodily, ahead considering winger, with implausible ending and good finish product basically.

He accrued ten Premier League objectives and three assists for Bournemouth earlier than finishing his transfer to the Etihad Stadium, together with a surprising late winner in his remaining recreation towards Tottenham Hotspur (on the identical time that Metropolis couldn’t discover a well beyond Brighton and Hove Albion.)

This season, Guardiola has been working with narrower wingers, typically taking part in Phil Foden, Rayan Cherki and Jeremy Doku in central areas when Metropolis have possession.

This doesn’t totally swimsuit Semenyo’s recreation; he is an efficient one vs one dribbler and likes to stretch groups additional large along with his trickery and tempo.

Doku, nevertheless, has solely actually performed extra centrally this season, so there’s time for Semenyo to choose up the abilities to play there. He may function off both aspect, and is nice with each ft.

The Ghanian additionally has a brilliant lengthy throw, that prompted chaos lately at Stamford Bridge, creating two objectives in Bournemouth’s 2-2 draw with Chelsea.

Metropolis are one of many few groups within the league to haven’t tailored to the lengthy throw development, however Semenyo is actually top-of-the-line takers within the league so it may very well be one thing included into their recreation.

The primary purpose Metropolis are signing him although is his finish product. Semenyo scores objectives – solely Erling Haaland and Brentford’s Igor Thiago have greater than him within the Premier League this season.

With Marmoush being injured and never kicking on from a promising first six months and no different of Metropolis’s attackers, with maybe the exception of Foden, offering common objectives, having a participant who is aware of the place the again of the web is is crucially vital in taking the goalscoring burden off Haaland.

This would be the principal means during which Semenyo will hopefully impression this Metropolis aspect. He’s a gifted participant who’s loved a meteoric rise in the previous couple of years and can solely get higher underneath Pep- it’ll be a pleasure to observe him prove in sky blue!