Premier League’s warped economics make £65m fee for Semenyo a snip | Jonathan Wilson

Key Highlights

• Given how well Rayan Cherki and Phil Foden have played from the right this season, it is not immediately obvious why City need him, but the modern game is the modern game, the rammed calendar makes large and flexible squads essential and Pep Guardiola may have some esoteric plan for the Ghanaian anyway.
• But perhaps what is most striking about the deal is the fee – or, more precisely, how little attention it has drawn. English football has become inured to big transfers.
• The fee feels about right.
• Semenyo is 25.
• He has four and a half years left on his contract.