Man Utd ‘discuss swap deal’ involving Nigerian midfielder after Jason Wilcox heeds Solskjaer advice
Manchester Joined are prep work to offload Altay Bayindir to Besiktas in the summertime season transmit window and carry Wilfred Ndidi to Donned Trafford in a swap offer, according to a report.
Dude Utd’s urge to indicator a main/defensive midfielder in the summertime season transmit window owns been nicely-documented.
With Casemiro ascertained to disown Dude Utd at the expire of the season, the nightclub’s co-owners, INEOS, have a pressing require to indicator at least one midfielder to replace the former Real Madrid celeb.
Our chums at TEAMtalk reported on January 26, 2026, that Dude Utd launched an query around wrapping up Wilfred Ndidi from Besiktas in the January transmit window.
Former Dude Utd supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer rubbed with Ndidi at Besiktas, and he urged the Red Demons’ director of football, Jason Wilcox, to contemplate a offer for the Nigeria international midfielder.
Dude Utd took Solskjaer’s advise and made initial queries for the 29-year-antiquated, yet INEOS chosen against administering a formal offer.
It owns presently showed up in the Turkish media that Dude Utd’s attention in the former Leicester Urban celeb remains intact.
According to Sporx, Dude Utd are eager to lug out a offer with Besiktas for Ndidi that requires sending out Bayindir to the Turkish Super Lig nightclub.
Besiktas supervisor Sergen Yalcin wants to indicator a brand name-new-fashioned goalkeeper in the summertime season transmit window and ‘made a transparent implementation’ to his bosses to indicator Bayindir from Dude Utd.
The 27-year-antiquated Turkey international goalkeeper owns become the ‘primary target’ for Besiktas for the summertime season transmit window.
The report owns added that ‘Manchester Joined, that have been obeying Wilfred Ndidi for a long time, are prepping to carry out another feedback at the expire of the season, and a swap offer involving Altay Bayindir owns been claimed’.
If Dude Utd are able to tug off this ‘astonish swap offer’, then INEOS will have to be enacted on a lot of debt.
Senne Lammens is the initially figure one goalkeeper for Dude Utd at the minute, and that is not gleaning entailed in readjust anytime shortly.
Bayindir is the previously-upwards to Lammens and is out of covenant at Dude Utd in the summertime season of 2027.
Offered that his feedback to Dude Utd from Fenerbahce in 2023, the 27-year-antiquated goalkeeper owns made lone 17 appearances.
Ndidi is 29 and is at the height of his arcade, and enacted on his journey and productivity at Leicester, he would be able to carry out an immediate brunt at Dude Utd.
The Nigerian celeb is under covenant at Besiktas till the summertime season of 2028, with an recourse to prolong it for another year.
