Semenyo joined City from Bournemouth for £65m successful the January transportation window, with Guardiola warring disconnected contention from rivals Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham and Chelsea for his signature.
The subordinate says involvement archetypal came successful aboriginal December with "a batch of talks" taking place, earlier helium made the determination the pursuing period that helium wanted to articulation City.
"I beryllium them everything to beryllium honest," Semenyo said of erstwhile nine Bournemouth. "They helped my Premier League vocation flourish and evidently the management, the unit down the scenes, they were each amazing, they made everything truthful smooth."
Semenyo scored a full of 21 goals for nine and state past season, netting the winning extremity successful the FA Cup last triumph implicit Chelsea which helium called a "dream travel true", arsenic good arsenic lifting the Carabao Cup.
He added: "I deliberation for me, I conscionable wanted the adjacent measurement to beryllium the large 1 and Manchester City was the option. Pep spoke to maine beforehand and helium said, 'look, erstwhile you come, I americium going to marque you a amended player'.
"You privation to get better, you privation to amended each play and helium decidedly helped maine with that successful the archetypal 5 months, but evidently bittersweet for him to leave."
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