Well he was good and bad, the good was he was half of the time solid and stopped ineasta, the bad was that most of the times his positioning was SHOCKING and he let ineasta to come at him instead of stopping him before he even starts, he was torn apart by ineasta and was out of position for the second goal, some might say it was winger job to mark abidal, but did u even look at altintop positioning at that time, he was acting as he is a CB.

The thing is arbeloa would probably have 100 times better performance then this dude. but what can we do, we had no choice other then him.

I have been screaming for a True RB since like few months, people just kept dismissing me, now they know.

Ganso wrote:really dont see how people are saying he was good,the guy got skinned so much by inietsa that it made me want to cry

Because he isn't a right back. and Iniesta is Iniesta.

he did well with the ball in some occasions.

He was actually decent considering the magnitude of the game, the time it's been since he's played a full game and that he's played out of position.

He did get owned, but he owned Iniesta a lot, too.

Yes exactly. I thought given the situation he impressed (for the most part). I don't think he was completely at fault for the Abidal goal. Ronaldo had been coming back and defending well all game and was just standing watching Abidal run through on that particular play. Cris should have came back and marked the open man.

I thought our marking in general was poor and our defensive line wouldn't pull up fast enough. Again I realize this is barca.

Regardless, Altintop showed up to play and I'm happy with that.

ronaldo is lw not rw dude

altintop had a lot of clean tackles, and for the most part did his job, which is to defend.

he did just as well as arbeloa.

all this hate on altintop- he wasnt the problem the problem was tactical. we had what 2 shots the whole match? we were LUCKY to even have 1 goal.

The xcx wrote:

Giggity5313 wrote:ronaldo is lw not rw dude

CR7 is dominant with right foot, he can play as a rw, if he wanted to.

He wasn't playing it though at the time of the goal

Ronaldo was at RW when Abidal scored.

not his fault though..

If it was Altintop (RB) vs Iniesta (LW) then it would of been Ronaldo (RW) vs Abidal (LB).

Giggity5313 wrote:not his fault though..

I don't agree. 100% his man to mark in my opinion.

this man is truly a demi-God
never let him go

Hamit Altintop could have already decided their future, out of Real Madrid. White midfielder would have closed his signing with a Turkish team, as is clear from the statements of Simon Zenke, Ottoman Samsunspor player.

The Nigerian hung on his personal Twitter account a picture with Altintop, ensuring that Madrid has confessed his plans and go to play "99.9%" to the Turkish League, but has not relieved the equipment chosen by the Ottomans. "With Real Madrid's Hamit Altintop, a good guy, I'm happy to return to Turkey, but where? Top secret," wrote Zenke.

"Where he chooses to go, (red or blue) will be champions because it is a high quality play a champ," Zenke said on his Twitter. Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe were interested in hiring the services of Altintop, who could announce his departure from the club in the coming days.

Wish him the best of luck

Marca:

In Turkey assumes the agreement between Real Madrid and Galatasaray for the transfer of the club Ottoman Hamit Altintop. The cost of the operation would be two million, while the player would receive between 3.5 and 4 million for each of the four seasons he would have signed.

What a waste of wages...
I think Alex should've gotten his "first team" squad position last season

The Istanbul club divulged financial details of the move on the Public Disclosure Forum (KAP), "We have completed the transfer of Hamit Altintop from Real Madrid for €3.5 million on a four year deal. Altintop will earn €2.9 million per-season in 2012-13 and 2013-14 in addition to a €20,000 per-match bonus. Altintop will make €2.75 million per-season in 2014-15 and 2015-16 as well as a €25,000 per-match bonus."

lol what a waste of money from the istanbul club...