{"id":4936,"date":"2026-01-02T00:20:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=4936"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:20:55","slug":"eight-players-hoping-for-a-big-2026-antoine-semenyo-igor-thiago-claudio-braga-and-nico-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=4936","title":{"rendered":"Eight players hoping for a big 2026: Antoine Semenyo, Igor Thiago, Claudio Braga and Nico O&#8217;Reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bournemouth winger Antoine Semenyo is close to joining Manchester City after they activated a \u00a365m release clause in his contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old is likely to complete the move after making a final appearance for the Cherries in Saturday&#8217;s game against his soon-to-be-club&#8217;s title rivals Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most of the big-spending clubs in the Premier League had been interested in the Ghana international after he became one of the stars of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Semenyo is the third top scorer in the league with nine goals, plus has three assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And now the former Bristol City man will finally have the opportunity to play in Europe &#8211; and the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the question is &#8211; and this is why Semenyo is facing a big 2026 &#8211; how quickly can he break into the City XI with so much competition for attacking places?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bournemouth winger Antoine Semenyo is close to joining Manchester City after they activated a \u00a365m release clause in his contract. The 25-year-old is likely to complete the move after making a final appearance for the Cherries in Saturday&#8217;s game against his soon-to-be-club&#8217;s title rivals Arsenal. Most of the big-spending clubs in the Premier League had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}