Bournemouth risk repeating Tottenham and West Ham mistake with £30m ‘next Antoine Semenyo’

Bournemouth have been warned {that a} deal to signal their best choice to switch Antoine Semenyo is perhaps occurring a 12 months too early.

The Cherries are in talks with Vasco da Gama over teenage winger Rayan Vitor and have made a gap supply, talkSPORT understands.

Vasco wish to fetch €35million (£30m) for the 19-year-old, who’s being eyed because the long-term alternative for Semenyo.

Nonetheless, talkSPORT’s chief soccer correspondent Alex Criminal has revealed that Andoni Iraola’s facet values him a lot decrease.

Ghana celebrity Semenyo accomplished a £62.5m transfer to Manchester Metropolis this month, in what was a document sale for Bournemouth.

Who’s Bournemouth goal, Rayan?

Rayan is the newest jewel from the vasco academy that has produced Romario, Chelsea’s Andrey Santos, and Teammee Philippe Coutinho.

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He scored 14 league targets in Brazil’s top-flight, with one help in 34 video games because the membership completed two factors exterior the relegation zone.

The attacker has already hit the bottom working within the first recreation of this 12 months, scoring twice in a 4-2 win within the Campeonato Carioca.

Is he the Semenyo alternative?

“Sure and no,” South American soccer professional Tim Vickery instructed talkSPORT’s Hawsbee and Jacobs on Thursday. “He is not direct.

“He is much less of a winger, I believe. He is much less of a fly-past folks, however he’s very promising.

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“He was the massive revelation of the Brazilian Championship final 12 months. He is a large determine, an actual strapping determine, left-footed.

“Been enjoying nearly all of his soccer wide-right, chopping in. However in the course of the course of a really profitable 12 months, he ended up transferring inside, enjoying at centre-forward.

“Now, his back-to-goal recreation, I believe, nonetheless wants numerous work. He is not the completed article.”

One other potential switch flop?

Premier League golf equipment have grow to be no strangers to taking an early punt on wonderkids from South America, with various success.

Chelsea have been instructed that £56m starlet Estevao Willian can attain Eden Hazard ranges of stardom following his transfer from Palmeiras.

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His ex-teammate, Luis Guilherme, did not get pleasure from the identical success on the Blues’ London rivals, West Ham, after his £25m arrival in 2024.

The 19-year-old was flogged to Sporting this month off the again of simply 18 appearances for the Hammers, one begin, and 0 targets.

Tottenham have additionally been burned within the case of Alejo Véliz, who joined Spurs from Rosario Central for round £13m in August 2023.

The striker is now again on mortgage on the Argentinian facet, having scored only one Premier League objective in eight appearances (all as a sub).

Vickery, who publicly warned Tottenham about transferring for Véliz too early three years in the past, has now voiced related issues over Rayan.

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‘I’d simply be a bit of bit frightened’

“I’d be a bit frightened about him transferring now,” talkSPORT’s Vickery added on the latter. “I believe he in all probability wants a bit of bit extra.

“I do know that folks round him and his membership coach assume he in all probability wants a bit of bit extra earlier than he strikes.

“We have seen the results of untimely strikes. The likes of Luis Guilherme at West Ham. Or Véliz at Tottenham, who’s now negotiating with a Brazilian membership.

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“I’d be a bit of bit frightened about him, though the promise is big. And plainly what Bournemouth are doing to seduce Vasco, whose monetary scenario is just not nice, is you’ll be able to retain a minimize in him.

“The concept, clearly, is that he strikes to England, he does effectively, and he is offered on a revenue. And Vasco can hold a stake in him and take part in that revenue.

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“So, we’ll see. I think that the cash will speak. If Bournemouth actually, actually need him, I think the cash will speak.

“For me, I’d simply be a bit of bit frightened. It is perhaps occurring six months or a 12 months too early.”