Altay Bayindir To Remain As United No 1 For Manchester Derby Despite Lammens Signing

Ruben Amorim will clasp Altay Bayindir arsenic Manchester United’s No 1 successful Sunday’s derby astatine Manchester City but says he regards his caller goalkeeper, Senne Lammens, arsenic 1 for nan coming arsenic good arsenic nan future.

Bayindir has started United’s 3 Premier League games, having dislodged André Onana arsenic Amorim’s first choice. Lammens joined from Royal Antwerp for £18m connected transportation deadline time but Amorim stated that nan 23-year-old needed clip to settle.

“Altay is going to continue,” he said. “It is simply a different league, different country, different shot [for Lammens]. So they [he and Bayindir] will conflict for nan position. We are really pleased – he is simply a goalkeeper pinch a batch of potential. We are successful nan infinitesimal that nan goalkeeper needs to beryllium really beardown and person a batch of acquisition but we besides person to look astatine nan coming pinch a attraction connected nan early truthful it is simply a spot of both. He will beryllium ready.”

United besides considered signing Aston Villa’s Emiliano Martínez, who is vastly experienced, truthful Amorim was asked why Lammens was chosen. “Sometimes arsenic a nine you effort to spot different options – 1 aliases another,” he said. “We person an action that tin springiness america different things astatine nan infinitesimal but besides has a awesome imaginable to beryllium our goalkeeper for a number of years.

Onana has joined Trabzonspor connected a season’s loan. Amorim said nan 29-year-old struggled pinch nan unit of playing for United.

“André Onana did a very bully play astatine Inter [before joining United successful summertime 2023], nan value is there, but successful nan nine sometimes things are getting harder, nan unit is truthful hard, sometimes you request a change,” he said. “Our reasoning is to person a alteration successful nan goalkeepers but I wish nan champion for André Onana – sometimes you tin person each nan value successful nan world but you request a change.”

Mason Mount and Matheus Cunha will miss nan derby owing to injury. “They are retired for this game,” he said. “I don’t cognize really agelong it is going to return [for their return] – I don’t want to say. If you talk pinch Cunha he will opportunity he tin play this crippled truthful I don’t know. We will negociate [this] day-by-day. We request those guys to beryllium a very competitory squad but we person very bully players who are eager to play.”