<\/p>\n
Manchester City<\/b><\/a> are close to agreeing terms with <\/b>Bournemouth<\/b><\/a> to sign Antoine Semenyo for \u00a365m.<\/b><\/p>\n City’s move for the Ghana forward, 25, is at an advanced stage with talks over the past 48 hours aimed at closing the finer details of the deal.<\/p>\n City have agreed to meet Semenyo’s \u00a365m release clause while the player’s representatives were in Manchester on Monday finalising personal terms.<\/p>\n Discussions continued on Tuesday with sources indicating that a total agreement is now close with the January transfer window due to open on Thursday.<\/p>\n Semenyo, who is expected to be in Bournemouth<\/a>‘s squad to play Chelsea<\/a> on Tuesday, has been keen for his future to be resolved by 1 January<\/a> but it remains to be seen whether the Cherries push for the attacker to play against Arsenal<\/a> on Saturday 3 January.<\/p>\n Sources have told BBC Sport that Bournemouth<\/a> want him to play against the Gunners and then Tottenham<\/a> on Wednesday 7 January before the release mechanism in his deal elapses on 10 January.<\/p>\n As reported by BBC Sport on Sunday, Liverpool<\/a> retain an interest in Semenyo but, unless the Premier League champions launch a late bid, he is heading to City.<\/p>\n Despite interest in Semenyo from five clubs, including Chelsea<\/a>, Manchester United<\/a> and Tottenham<\/a>, City remain the only one to have made formal contact with Bournemouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #Antoine #Semenyo #Manchester #City #close #agreeing #terms #Bournemouth #attacker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manchester City are close to a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}