BOURNEMOUTH, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 15: Head Coach Andoni Iraola with Antoine Semenyo of Bournemouth during a training session at Vitality Stadium on February 15, 2024 in Bournemouth, England. (Photo by Robin Jones – AFC Bournemouth/AFC Bournemouth via Getty Images)Ghana striker, Antoine Semenyo, believes AFC Bournemouth manager, Andoni Iraola, has the potential to become a world-class manager.The Spanish trainer has emerged as one of the best gaffers in the Premier League and is aiming to become the first manager to lead the Cherries to play European football next season.The Cheeries sit 10th on the Premier League logwitheight points behind the last European spots.”He [Andoni Iraola] has the potential to be a top manager. Great guy, player management, besides, he’s so good,” Semenyo told SuperSport.”I feel like he gets on with the players. He gets on with the team so well, and that’s so important. You want to be able to get on with the players off the pitch as well as on the pitch. So I feel like he does a good job of that. Hence why we’re where we are in the table.”Having scored nine goals in all competitions this season with five assists to his credit, Semenyo also praised Iraola for giving him the freedom to play.”He’s given me that freedom in attack. He’s seen it in training over and over, where I just feel free, feel relaxed, and I’m just easing, going past players with ease, shooting from long range, getting that success,” he said.”So he’s given me that licensing games to do that as well, but I’m also reciprocating and helping in defense and recovery, runs and whatever it is defensively.”I feel like that’s the reason why I’m getting so much freedom, because I’m doing the defensive job that I need to. So then we get the ball, I’ve got all the space in the world for attacking. So, yeah, he’s giving me that license of freedom,” he added.Semenyo will hope to increase goal tally whenBournemouth host Fulham at the Vitality Stadium on Monday, April 14.
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