Club ‘studying performances’ of Bournemouth star – Belief €30m is enough
The Ghana international has seven goals and four assists in the Premier League and has contributed in an important way to the Cherries’ campaign.
In all competitions he has nine goals and soon the winger could hit the double-figures mark for the first time in his career.
The 25-year-old is now starting to attract attention from multiple clubs and Tuttomercatoweb have looked at his situation.
The Italian outlet state that Napoli are ‘studying the performances’ of the Ghanaian and are attracted by what is perceived to be his cost.
The outlet believe that Bournemouth currently value Semeyo at €30m and the Naples club also like his versatility, as the player has operated on the left, up-front and also on the right.
Napoli want to improve in the wide positions in the summer and Semenyo could now be an important target for Antonio Conte, who would ideally want two signings in that area.
The report also mentions interest from Liverpool, who see the Cherries star as a replacement for Mohamed Salah. It is likely that Bournemouth will have to fend off a lot of clubs to keep their asset.
Mohamed Salah was the best player in the league and the world when we last did this in December. It’s March, and he has continued to be the best player in the league and the world.
But since our last rankings, we’ve seen Manchester City fall and then sort of rise. We’ve watched Chelsea struggle their way out of the top two and down into the top five-ish. We’ve witnessed the rise of Bournemouth, Newcastle, Nottingham Forest and even Crystal Palace. Tottenham nearly completely imploded. Manchester United appear to have already imploded. And Arsenal’s title challenge suddenly fell apart.
So, who’s to blame and who’s to credit for all the volatility we’ve seen beyond the top and bottom of the table?
To try to answer those questions, we’re back with the fourth edition of the Premier League Top 50 for the 2024-25 season.
A quick note on our ranking methodology
As usual, this is a mix of past rankings, data, wisdom of the crowds, and my own gut. While I’d feel a little more confident ranking players at a single position or at a single aspect of the game using just data, it’s close-to-impossible to use numbers to come anywhere close to a remotely useful player-value ranking across all positions.
So, I looked at the previous rankings from December, removed players who are injured, added players who are healthy, then rearranged them in an order I thought looked about right. After that, I went through a number of metrics — most notably, Michael Imburgio’s DAVIES model, which tries to value everything that happens on the ball — to see if there are any major areas of disagreement. (Reader, there were.) And then I made adjustments from there.
After that, I cross-referenced that with the crowd-sourced values on Transfermarkt to make sure I wasn’t too massively off of consensus. And after that, I made some more minor adjustments to award players who were performing in the highest leverage matches (for good teams) and players who have a long track record of success.
The result is what you’ll see below.
Who dropped off the ranking, and who just missed?
For performance-related reasons, André Onana, Darwin Núñez, Brennan Johnson, Darwin Núñez, Emiliano Martínez, and Rúben Dias all fell off the list. For injury reasons, Bukayo Saka, Manuel Akanji, Nicolas Jackson, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Martinelli are gone. And for transfer reasons, Kyle Walker is off this list and on to Italy.
