Chelsea’s embarrassing brief on Antoine Semenyo not a good look as real reason comes out | OneFootball

Chelsea’s embarrassing brief on why they allegedly missed out on Antoine Semenyo is not a good look as the real reason now comes out.

Yesterday was a mad one. None of us have expected Chelsea to be busy in the January transfer window – we all expected a very quiet Christmas week at least, leading up to it.

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Then suddenly, BOOM! Things went nuts as Chelsea’s interest in Bournemouth winger Antoine Semenyo came out and hit the headlines.

David Ornstein put some news out that Chelsea had made an enquiry for Semenyo and were in the race to sign him.

January doesn’t usually see big deals made between Premier League teams, but Semenyo is an exceptional because he has a release clause which keeps his price around a reasonable £65m.

It was almost too good to be true, right? Well, yep, it was!

Chelsea put out embarrassing brief

Antoine Semenyo plays for Bournemouth. (Photo by Steve Bardens/Getty Images)

Chelsea fans were not getting excited and deep down knew they wouldn’t be signing Semenyo, they have grown to used to how this new ownership operate and how incompetent they can be.

Ben Jacobs wrote last night:

‘Chelsea have decided not to pursue Antoine Semenyo further at this point.

‘Belief in current Chelsea attackers. Still an openness to summer additions. Also understand there is a plan to reward current performing players within the squad.’

So, Chelsea didn’t go for him because they have belief in their current attackers? So why did they enquire for him in the first place? We don’t believe you, it’s embarrassing putting that out as the reason.

The real reason

Clearly, he chose Manchester City and didn’t want to go to Chelsea.

Fabrizio Romano has reported now that Semenyo’s preference is Man City.

And Rahman Osman of The Sun has reported that Semenyo is not interested in the Chelsea project.

So there you have it, your actual TRUE reasons Chelsea aren’t going to be signing Semenyo.