Bristol City coach Nigel Pearson has confirmed the club received an offer from Championship league leaders Burnley for star striker Antoine Semenyo.
With the end of the January transfer window approaching, a number of teams are keeping an eye on Bristol City attacker Antoine Semenyo.
Burnley’s interest in Semenyo was revealed earlier this month, and Vincent Kompany’s need for another striker prompted them to make an offer earlier in the window, but their bid, too, was turned down.
Semenyo has been in superb form for the Robins, scoring three goals and assisting once in his past four matches.
“We’ve received offers of a fashion from Bournemouth and Burnley too. And there is speculation about other clubs. It can be potentially very unsettling for players and that’s why I very much believe in being as frank and open as possible,” Pearson said.
“Antoine is a young man who’s had a pretty good couple of years now, on a personal level in terms of breaking into the side and showing not just potential but his ability to perform at a very good level. The one thing he’s working harder to do now is scoring more goals and, like many forwards, he’ll go through spells of achieving that but even when he’s not doing that he’s still a real handful,”
“We know we’ve got a talent in Antoine at the club but we need to protect our interests as a football club and if we get to a point where a deal is accepted that it’s done in the right way. Until that point, Antoine is our player,”
“What I would say about him is he’s a really honest player, honest person and he’s dealing with it as well as he can but speculation can be unsettling.”
