Liverpool’s name may only be in the Semenyo Sweepstakes in order to drive up the player’s price.
Antoine Semenyo, Bournemouth’s 25-year-old London-born Ghanaian international, is certainly no stranger to the land of rumour mongering, with the winger regularly linked with Liverpool since the year started and those links only intensifying as Liverpool—and forward Mohamed Salah–have struggled this season.
Liverpool are hardly alone in that respect, though, with Semenyo also regularly linked with Manchester City, Tottenham, and even now Manchester United. One might reasonably add up all the chatter and call it the Semenyo Sweepstakes. Which naturally raises a few questions about the veracity of all that noise.
And according to club-connected Liverpool journo David Lynch, questions may well be appropriate, as he claims he’s recently been hearing the Reds are prominently in the mix less because of interest and more because Bournemouth are making sure that’s a link out there in the wild as they try to drive up the player’s price.
The idea of Liverpool going big for Semenyo in January has always raised eyebrows given the gargantuan spending spree the Reds went on in the summer, with manager Arne Slot still struggling to fully integrate big new signings like Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong, and Milos Kerkez for various reasons.
At the moment, the problem doesn’t appear to be a lack of puzzle pieces—it’s figuring out an effective way to fit all of them together. And a shiny new Semenyo doesn’t seem like it would be much help on that front, instead mostly just adding another puzzle piece to the pile. Still, it’s obvious he is a very good wide forward.
Given that along with the questions about Salah’s future that have only grown in recent weeks and sporting director Richard Hughes’ Bournemouth connections, there has always been something of an innate air of plausibility to the rumours despite the question marks. But it appears maybe there’s nothing there.
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