Sometimes it just doesn’t work out for a certain player at a certain club. That’s certainly the case with this former Sunderland player.
Sunderland have had a huge turnover in players over the last eight years which has seen them fall all the way from the Premier League to League One, where they spent three years before their promotion under Alex Neil in 2022.
Now, the Black Cats are looking for a return to the Premier League. Sunderland appointed Regis Le Bris last summer and he’s since made promotion contenders out of the Black Cats who are the best of the rest outside the top three, who boast much more resources and squad talent than the rest of the division.
After a 1-0 win over Millwall last time out, Sunderland remain in 4th place of the Championship table and boast a whopping 15 point gap over Tony Mowbray’s West Brom in 6th, who Sunderland face on Saturday.
Premier League football is within Sunderland’s sights and if they return, they may come up against a certain former player, unless he goes on to seal a stunning £75million transfer this summer.
Former Sunderland man Antoine Semenyo lined up for staggering £75m transfer
Saudi Arabia has seen an influx of top footballers arrive in the last few years. Cristiano Ronaldo is of course the main man out in Saudi right now, playing for Al-Nassr where he reportedly earns an insane £168million every single year. Now, former Sunderland loan flop Antoine Semenyo could be about to join him.
An emerging report from GIVEMSPORT has revealed that Al-Nassr have their sights set on a handful of Premier League players including West Ham’s Mohammed Kudus, Brighton’s Kaoru Mitoma, and Bournemouth’s Semenyo, who spent time on loan with Sunderland during the 2019/20 League One season where he failed to score in seven total appearances.
On loan from Bristol City, the Ghanaian international eventually earned a £10million move to Bournemouth in 2023. He’s since scored 16 and assisted seven more in 73 total games for the Cherries and GIVEMESPORT say ‘Al-Nassr believe that Bournemouth will sanction Semenyo’s departure for in the region of £75million’.
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Sunderland have their own Antoine Semenyo in the making
Sunderland have a long list of talented youngsters making progress. Chris Rigg and Jobe Bellingham are the standouts right now, but it’s Tommy Watson’s who’s sealed a £10million move to Brighton, in what could be the first of many high profile sales at the Stadium of Light this summer.
But similar to Semenyo is Romaine Mundle. The former Spurs man who joined Sunderland from Standard Liege in a £2million deal in January 2023 is steadily becoming a top player in the Championship and if it weren’t for his injury this season, he might have had vast Premier League interest too.
As it goes, West Ham are linked with Mundle, but it looks like he’ll be one who stays on Wearside for next season with his transfer value bound to increase only further. One day, he too could be a £75million player.