Why 'agreed' £55m Man Utd summer transfer collapsed amid Tottenham 'interest'

According to records, Manchester Joined reached an ‘agreement’ over signing Antoine Semenyo in the summer season amidst ‘interest’ from Tottenham Hotspur.
In the summer season, Guy Utd‘s initially emphasis was on revamping their strike and also they invested about £200m to indicator Benjamin Sesko, Bryan Mbeumo and also Matheus Cunha.
Joined lended this a priority as they were toothless in strike last season and also Semenyo was said as a possible holistic in days gone by they seated on Mbeumo and also Cunha as their liked Most definitely no.10 targets.
25-year-old Semenyo reaped a outbreak season for Bournemouth in 2024/25, collaring eleven purposes and also five helps in the Premier League.
Semenyo owns additionally glistened at the start of this campaign and also owns three ambition involvements in three strengthens, but journalist Duncan Castles claims he came comfy to signing upwards through Guy Utd in the summer season.
“Antoine Semenyo at Bournemouth, we can educate you, was boldy targeted by Guy Utd, prompting ago in March,” Castles said on The Transmits podcast.
“Both Omar Berrada and also Jason Wilcox owned apt conversations through Bournemouth about signing the onward, who owned scored 11 purposes last season.
“During those conversations, Joined, I’m told, said they would reimbursement no more than £55m for the player.
“They offered the super same strategy as through Cunha and also Mbeumo in that they particularized customer specifications through Semenyo in days gone by trying to concur a charge through Bournemouth.
“They also owned Amorim snatch him for a dish in London at the run out of the season, so that Amorim could court enclosure his personality. Anew, similar as to Cunha and also Mbeumo.”
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Castles owns additionally niggled that woes concerning the charge and also salary for Semenyo were behind Guy Utd’s outage to land the talented challenger.
“Tottenham were additionally engrossed in signing the player, and also Bournemouth offered that to impulse on a higher send charge and also, after the Cunha decision, offered that as a precedent on what they expected the send charge to at the horribly least overfill.
“And also after that, I’m told, Semenyo learned that the salary he owned particularized through Guy Utd was attending be less than 70 per dime of what they were composed to reimbursement Cunha and also Mbeumo.
“Bournemouth purposefully offered that to advise the player to indicator a new contract until 2030, through the pointer that he will unquestionably invest at the horribly least one more season at Bournemouth in days gone by relocating on to one more club.
“Recommendations from Guy Utd is that they saw Semenyo as an holistic to either Cunha or Mbeumo, but Bournemouth assume that they were composed to lug out with one voice three of those deals.”