Antoine Semenyo joins Man Metropolis: Bournemouth ahead indicators in £64m switch to take Metropolis spending over £425m in 12 months

Manchester Metropolis have signed Antoine Semenyo from Bournemouth in a £64m deal.

The ahead joins Pep Guardiola’s facet on a five-and-a-half-year contract, taking Metropolis’s switch spend within the final 12 months to £425.9m on 14 gamers. An official announcement is predicted on Friday.

Metropolis agreed a take care of Bournemouth outdoors of Semenyo’s £65m launch clause at £62.5m, plus performance-related bonuses price £1.5m and a ten per cent sell-on clause.

Metropolis beat off competitors from rivals Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham to signal the 26-year-old.

The assured a part of the discharge clause was £60m, however the price Bournemouth will now obtain is barely extra at £62.5m over 24-month instalments.

The discharge clause has meant Bournemouth stored Semenyo for an additional six months after curiosity in the summertime, with the sale larger than any of the affords they obtained at the moment.

Semenyo scored a dramatic stoppage-time winner in his ultimate Bournemouth sport to clinch a 3-2 house victory over Spurs on Wednesday earlier than having his Manchester Metropolis medical on Thursday.

Championship membership Bristol Metropolis are due 20 per cent of any revenue made on Semenyo, having left to hitch Bournemouth in January 2023 for round £10m.

Semenyo’s departure means Bournemouth have earned £266.5m in participant gross sales within the final six months following the numerous departures of Dean Huijsen to Actual Madrid (£50m), Milos Kerkez to Liverpool (£40m), Illia Zabarnyi to Paris Saint-Germain (£57m) and Dango Ouattara to Brentford (£42m).