Antoine Semenyo

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

Antoine Semenyo is the first name The Premier is willing to argue about. Sleeper had him fifth (247.6) on 17 goals and 6 assists from midfield. The other boards average 6.14. Hybrid lands at 3, ahead of Gabriel, ahead of Igor Thiago, ahead of Rice. That is a 26-year-old who just left Bournemouth's volume for Manchester City's chance quality, and the board is not going to pretend that is a lateral move.

The 2025/26 counting line is a feature-winger season: 37 starts, 3,200 minutes, 17 G, 6 A, 12 clean sheets (Sleeper pays mids 1), 45 tackles. FPL had him on 202 points, fourth overall. ESPN, The Athletic, and Sky all parked him inside the top four. The underlying is the honest paragraph: 11.1 xG, 17 finishes. Six goals of overperformance. At Bournemouth that can be 'he is actually this good.' At City it can be 'the shots get better and the finishing regresses toward a still-elite number.' We are buying the usage. We are not projecting 17 again without blinking.

Price is £8.5m. xGI rank 11 and EP-next 12 are the FPL app still treating him like a Bournemouth winger. The Pitch already moved. The Premier moved with it. The public has not finished the sentence 'he plays for City now.'

Yellows (7) and third-choice pens are the minuses that do not move a ranking this high. He is not Bruno. He does not need to be. He is the midfielder who scores like a forward and now shares a building with the actual 1.01. City can make that a problem (minutes) or a cheat code (box entries). 37 starts last year says he survives minutes fights.

Instruction: if your league still has him priced like a Bournemouth output, that is a buy. If someone wants Haaland-lite and offers a top-eight package, listen. Do not sell him for a 'safer' 8.0 midfielder who scored 8. The whole point of a hybrid board is that production and consensus finally agreed on someone who is not named Bruno or Erling.