With Liverpool losing three games in a row as September folded into October, an international break and some time away from club football hardly seemed the worst thing. A chance to recalibrate, to recover, and perhaps for manager Arne Slot to get to the root of his side’s problems and work with players not off on national team duty.
Of course, no club football—and not a lot of especially intriguing international fixtures—means not a lot to talk about from a Liverpool point of view. But there are rumours.
Because there are always rumours. Never mind the Reds just had a bonkers summer transfer window with their three most expensive signings of all time and those players still appear to be settling.
There’s always another window to come. More signings to be made. More money to be spent and never mind the actual football. Or something. Anyhow, Antoine Semenyo. The 25-year-old Bournemouth forward that Liverpool fans will remember from such moments as Antoine Semenyo scores goals and looks the best forward in the world when he plays Liverpool.
Now, players that play well against Liverpool might not always be a good transfer strategy—see, eg., ex-Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers’ obsession with Christian Benteke after the latter regularly lit it up against the former. But Semenyo does look quite the player, and Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes is the man who brought him to Bournemouth a few years back.
So. He plays well against the Reds. And there’s an obvious connection—as there was with summer signing Milos Kerkez. And TalkSport think the £75M-rated London-born Ghanaian international just might be Liverpool’s top attacking target. That they’re TalkSport and not generally to be relied upon for Liverpool insight aside, hey, we wouldn’t complain.
Of course, even if Semenyo is the man for the Reds, it’d be with an eye to signing him next summer. If Liverpool are to make a January move, it will be at centre half where they’re down to three players after Giovanni Leoni’s season-ending ACL injury. So we’ve got a while—months and months, even—to see how this one develops.
