Altay Bayindir - "Everyone wants to play for United"
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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Manchester United podcast, Sam Homewood and David May are at Carrington with GK Altay Bayindir. Yet to make an appearance for the first team, this is the perfect opportunity to get to know our new goalkeeper, and what a funny conversation it was!
Altay arrived at Old Trafford with 166 career appearances and 53 clean sheets to his name, becoming Manchester United's first-ever Turkish player. He signed for United in the summer 2023 transfer window, completing his move from Fenerbahçe on deadline day.
Over the previous two terms, Bayindir has added Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League experience to his CV with Fenerbahce and played his part in their run to lifting the Turkish Cup in 2022/23.
Today on the podcast he talks about how he's adapting to life in Manchester, growing up in Bursa (close to Istanbul), plus Altay & Maysie swap stories about the most hostile games they've ever experienced in Turkey.
Altay tells us about the chance conversation he had, which persuaded him to be a goalkeeper. He actually thinks that he could've been a decent striker or defender! We also find out which former United GK is Altay's hero as well as how he felt when he first knew that Manchester United were interested in him. An offer he couldn't ignore!
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone's smiling, everyone talking, hi, hello, good morning, it's a very good feeling, you know, I'm playing for |
| 0:07.5 | Big team in the world. It's different feeling. Yeah, I need to fight through all my hurt all night |
| 0:13.0 | Galatasaray fans are going up and down the bus first firing rockets. Yeah, how the hell tell you? Oh, yes |
| 0:20.6 | If Bell does it |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah, good questions |
| 0:26.6 | Somebody said that |
| 0:35.2 | Hello and welcome to Night of Podcast. Hi, Sam. Good, Maisie. How are you? I'm very well. Very well. Here we are in |
| 0:41.2 | Downtown Carrington. Yeah, changing room seven of the Academy building. Yeah, looking forward to today's guest |
| 0:47.0 | Should say no Helen Evans today. No, no babysitter. So unfortunately Bells, you've missed out |
| 0:53.1 | Yeah, and she has missed out because we've got all type A and D who is obviously |
| 0:56.8 | Manchester is newest goalkeeper. He's also the first Turkish player to represent Manchester United. Yeah, must be an absolute pleasure and privilege for him to |
| 1:06.5 | To be the first United play from Turkey. Incredible. When you think about all the talent that's come out of Turkey. Exactly. Yeah |
| 1:13.0 | Hell of a place, but not really looking forward to it is not old. Nope, the young pop, but |
| 1:19.8 | His stature and his, you know, the size of him |
| 1:22.8 | Huge presence and goal looking forward to some me too. He's also played in the Champions League |
| 1:27.9 | He's played in the Europa League. He's played in the Europa Conference League |
| 1:30.2 | He's lifted the Turkish cups. He's got a lot of experience. Yes, and captain a few of those teams as well |
| 1:38.2 | No, it'll be a be an interesting character forget on them. Let's get him. Here he is |
| 1:44.1 | Welcome to the United podcast. Thank you very much. How are you? All good. I feel amazing here because I miss the United players |
| 1:58.3 | I'm working for my new team. I think it's perfect for me. So of course you've come from Turkey and you're the first |
| 2:06.2 | Person from Turkey to represent Manchester United and we want to go through and see how you got to this point |
| 2:11.9 | But first, how are you settling into life in Manchester? Of course |
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