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Trabzonspor seem like main the race to signal Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana after the newest replace from Turkey emerged right this moment.
An Unsafe Pair of Arms
Onana, 29, has been relegated to the bench this season with Ruben Amorim ruthlessly displacing the Cameroonian from his beginning eleven.
Turkey worldwide Altay Bayindir has began every of the United’s three opening matches within the Premier League, with Onana’s sole look coming within the Carabao Cup conflict with Grimsby City.
And it was a match which demonstrated precisely
why Amorim has taken this resolution, with Onana nearly single-handedly serving to the League Two facet inflict a humiliating penalty shoot-out defeat on the Crimson Devils.
This error-strewn efficiency doesn’t exist in isolation, nevertheless – removed from it in reality.
Onana has been a relentless supply of angst since his £47.4 million seize from Inter Milan in 2023 to exchange long-time stalwart, David De Gea, making inexplicable mistake after inexplicable mistake.
He has produced bouts of fantastic type at occasions, however this Jekyll and Hyde method is unimaginable for a defensive unit to be constructed upon. Stability is the important thing trait for any high goalkeeper – and Onana is the textbook definition of unstable.
Bayindir has hardly seemed extra regular in Onana’s place, nevertheless. The previous Fenerbahce shot stopper gifted Arsenal all three factors on the opening weekend of the season with an terrible error, and he lower a shaky determine in subsequent matches in opposition to Fulham and Burnley.
This mix – of two Mr Hydes, fairly than a pleasant Dr Jekyll – led United to safe a deadline day raid to signal Royal Antwerp goalkeeper Senne Lammens, the highly-rated Belgium U-21 worldwide with a number of the greatest underlying statistics throughout Europe’s main leagues final season.
Lammens arrival, together with Amorim’s desire for Bayindir, has realistically relegated Onana to 3rd alternative at Previous Trafford – a pointy fall from grace for a participant thought of top-of-the-line in Europe at Inter Milan two years in the past.
An exit remains to be attainable
All through the summer time, Onana’s intention was to stay on the Theatre of Goals and struggle for his place.
The panorama has shortly modified, nevertheless, and with the African Cup of Nations within the winter and the World Cup subsequent summer time, gamers are prioritising gametime on the pitch much more keenly.
Onana was linked with a transfer to the Saudi Professional League earlier in the summertime, whereas a number of golf equipment in Turkey have additionally expressed curiosity. The switch markets in each nations stay open, regardless of the September 1 deadline in England.
And it seems Trabzonspor are intent on signing Onana earlier than Turkey’s window slams shut subsequent week.
The Black Sea Storm, at the moment 2nd within the Tremendous Lig, had been provided the possibility to signal the Cameroon worldwide final week after they bought Uğurcan Çakır to Galatasaray, with talks opening.
Turkish journalist Yagiz Sabuncuoglu now reveals Trabzonspor have “elevated its supply” for Onana.
🚨 Trabzonspor, Manchester United forması giyen Andre Onana için yaptığı teklifi artırdı!
— Yağız Sabuncuoğlu (@yagosabuncuoglu) September 6, 2025
Translated Tweet: “Trabzonspor has elevated its supply for Andre Onana, who wears the Manchester United jersey!”
The switch market in Turkey closes on Friday, giving United six extra days to strike a deal for a participant whose future at Previous Trafford seems to be over, whether or not he chooses to simply accept it or not.
Featured picture Michael Regan through Getty Photographs
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