{"id":21567,"date":"2012-07-12T11:20:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=21567"},"modified":"2012-07-12T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:20:46","slug":"hamit-altintop-set-to-leave-real-madrid-for-galatasaray-21567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/hamit-altintop-set-to-leave-real-madrid-for-galatasaray-21567\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamit Altintop set to leave Real Madrid for Galatasaray"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/hamit-altintop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/hamit-altintop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Turkish national \u00a0midfielder appears to be surplus to requirements at the Santiago Bernabeu, and is expected to seal a move to the Istanbul giants shortly<\/h1>\n<p>The 29-year-old joined Los Blancos from Bayern Munich ahead of the 2011-12 campaign, but failed to make an impact in his first season at the club, and is expected to move on again.\u00a0Samsunspor forward Simon Zenke posted a picture of him and Altintop on his Twitter account earlier this week, claiming that the midfielder was ready to leave Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria international refused to comment on Altintop&#8217;s destination, but it now appears that he is on his way to Galatasaray.\u00a0&#8220;With Hamit Altintop of Real Madrid, cool guy, I am happy he&#8217;s coming to Turkey, but where? Top secret!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am sorry guys. He told me where he&#8217;ll be going, but I can&#8217;t reveal that to you unfortunately. But he&#8217;s 99.9 per cent sure of coming to Turkey. &#8221;\u00a0Altintop started his professional career with Wattenscheid and also played for Schalke before joining Bayern in 2007.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish national  midfielder appears to be surplus to requirements at the Santiago Bernabeu, and is expected to seal a move to the Istanbul giants shortly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,1,118,171,1633,14],"tags":[27930,1729,11369,27933,15504,27928,27927,3028],"class_list":["post-21567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-turkey","category-turkey-sport","category-world","tag-altintop-bayern-munich","tag-galatasaray","tag-galatasaray-transfer","tag-galatsaray-transfer-hamit-altintop","tag-hamit-altintop-transfer","tag-hamit-atintop","tag-los-blancos","tag-real-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}