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Spurs tried to SIGN Semenyo! | Thomas Frank | Spurs v Man City

Football

Year2026

Duration20m

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Thomas Frank confirms Tottenham were in the race to sign Antoine Semenyo from Bournemouth before his transfer to Manchester City. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro. 00:40 - Van de Ven: minor one. Hopeful for Sunday. 01:02 - Full focus on league?: my focus is on the next game. The next ten games are more consistent. 01:52 - Imagine you’d be 14th?: No I didn’t. I’m very aware. This is a transitional where we need to be ambitious. 03:05 - No new arrivals?: The club work relentless to improve the squad. We can’t be too obsessed with short term fixes. Thelewis family is super committed. The club wanted to sign semenyo, that’s a big signing. That’s the quality of players we’re looking for. 05:01 - Solanke: so nice when dom was through on goal and you had that feeling he was going to score. He’s still building but ready to start. 06:20 - Pep Guardiola and Man City: best coach in the world. What he’s done is extremely innovative. City in full flow there’s so many threats. 07:34 - Marc Guehi: I’ve seen Guehi from Swansea, he’s been on a journey. 08:27 - vital solanke’s back: having two defenders score loads of goals, add some for the offensive players we’ll be in a good place. 09:55 - Worried by teams mentality: more complex than that. It’s a skill to perform every third or fourth game. 11:35 - Spurs fans wanting city to win?: The spurs fans will support the team. I’m not in doubt they’ll be happy if we perform well. 12:17 - 3-4-3 formation: it’s about can we get our best players in the best position. A lot of our players look good in that. 13:17 - Squad weaken than start of month?: that’s fair. We lost 5/6 players within three weeks of January. 13:57 - Leaving yourself short: the best clubs take good calm decisions. There is players looking to come back sooner. 14:54 - Solanke feeling like new signing: little bit unlucky at spurs. He scored a decent amount of goals. He will only get better. 16:08 - how close was semenyo deal: it showed big committed from the Lewis family. 17:05 - Make sure you don’t have a down