Vincent Kompany

Close to joining Bayern Munich apparently, Craig Bellamy would be going with him as well, if it happens. Looks like a great opportunity for our would be prodigal son.

We missed a trick with bellers for sure, I know he was a bit marmite but he takes no prisoners…..at least we have the visionary vincent still eh

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by splott parker

Close to joining Bayern Munich apparently, Craig Bellamy would be going with him as well, if it happens. Looks like a great opportunity for our would be prodigal son.

---

The other site is stating that Burnley want Bellers to remain there as Manager if Kompany leaves.

I like him he is brilliant as a pundit seems to have great knowledge, understanding and attitude, I'm not sure Management is his best option, I think he'd be happier as a top number two, not everyone is cut out for Management.

This whole thing amazes me. Burnley were dreadful this season. Worse than Luton. Feeble and very tactically naive. And yet Bayern apparently want Kompany and people are still singing Bellamy's praises?

It's a funny old game...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by goats

We missed a trick with bellers for sure, I know he was a bit marmite but he takes no prisoners…..at least we have the visionary vincent still eh

---

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/bu...n-munich-move/

https://talksport.com/football/18923...mpany-burnley/

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

This whole thing amazes me. Burnley were dreadful this season. Worse than Luton. Feeble and very tactically naive. And yet Bayern apparently want Kompany and people are still singing Bellamy's praises?

It's a funny old game...

---

Agreed, what has he done as a Manager?

The biggest team in Germany want the biggest or almost flop in the Premier League?

If he does lose Bellamy, that could weaken him further, as they seem a tight team.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

This whole thing amazes me. Burnley were dreadful this season. Worse than Luton. Feeble and very tactically naive. And yet Bayern apparently want Kompany and people are still singing Bellamy's praises?

It's a funny old game...

---

Man Utd appointed Solskjaer after a glittering career with us.

so Sean Dyche gets Burnley into Europe and ends up at Everton, while Kompany gets them relegated and is wanted by Bayern Munich?

Kieran McKenna has done well, but first Brighton now Chelsea, has he been tested with top-level players?

Win or almost win the Championship and the Worlds your Lobster!

Bayern Munich, the biggest and most successful team in Germany want a bloke that just got a team relegated from the PL after one season to be their new manager? WTF?

I don't think it's that strange. The Bayern hierarchy want their team to play a certain way, and Kompany is a manager that fits that mold. They've obviously realised that it could work for them as they have the players to play that way, unlike Burnley.

Of course, you could argue Kompany should have realised that and been more pragmatic, but philosophy and ideals are obviously more prominent in the modern game. If he ends up at Bayern, he'll have been proved right.

Bear in mind, too, that Bayern have already been turned down by their first three choices, and they only hire German-speaking managers. That limits their pool somewhat.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee

Man Utd appointed Solskjaer after a glittering career with us.

---

After a period of therapy and counselling and his jabs were up to date

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue

Kieran McKenna has done well, but first Brighton now Chelsea, has he been tested with top-level players?

Win or almost win the Championship and the Worlds your Lobster!

---

Not for malky or Warnock it wasn't - we're cursed I tell ya

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead

I don't think it's that strange. The Bayern hierarchy want their team to play a certain way, and Kompany is a manager that fits that mold. They've obviously realised that it could work for them as they have the players to play that way, unlike Burnley.

Of course, you could argue Kompany should have realised that and been more pragmatic, but philosophy and ideals are obviously more prominent in the modern game. If he ends up at Bayern, he'll have been proved right.

Bear in mind, too, that Bayern have already been turned down by their first three choices, and they only hire German-speaking managers. That limits their pool somewhat.

---

I'd forgotten that he was at Hamburg.

I just saw Bellers in Tesco. If Walesonline or other websites want to knock this into idle, fictitious speculation then please feel free. I didn't speak to him which means he didn't deny he was about to take up the reins at City after the board withdraw Bulut's contract offer sometime before Christmas.

Re Burnley….as the saying goes…’you can’t make chicken soup from chicken shit’.
I think Pep would have struggled to keep them in the premiership this season……imo.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by G rangetown Blue

Re Burnley….as the saying goes…’you can’t make chicken soup from chicken shit’.
I think Pep would have struggled to keep them in the premiership this season……imo.

---

That’s assuming Pep would have signed the players Kompany signed. Which is doubtful.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Bluebirdman Of Alcathays

I just saw Bellers in Tesco. If Walesonline or other websites want to knock this into idle, fictitious speculation then please feel free. I didn't speak to him which means he didn't deny he was about to take up the reins at City after the board withdraw Bulut's contract offer sometime before Christmas.

---

thats defiantly breaking news :thumbup:

CCMB always first with the news, we simple are the best

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead

Bear in mind, too, that Bayern have already been turned down by their first three choices, and they only hire German-speaking managers. That limits their pool somewhat.

---

Perhaps Bulut has had conversations there and that has been the delay. A return home may be on his mind.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead

I don't think it's that strange. The Bayern hierarchy want their team to play a certain way, and Kompany is a manager that fits that mold. They've obviously realised that it could work for them as they have the players to play that way, unlike Burnley.

Of course, you could argue Kompany should have realised that and been more pragmatic, but philosophy and ideals are obviously more prominent in the modern game. If he ends up at Bayern, he'll have been proved right.

Bear in mind, too, that Bayern have already been turned down by their first three choices, and they only hire German-speaking managers. That limits their pool somewhat.

---

Yeah, I wouldn't write him off until I saw how he did with a better group of players.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead

I don't think it's that strange. The Bayern hierarchy want their team to play a certain way, and Kompany is a manager that fits that mold. They've obviously realised that it could work for them as they have the players to play that way, unlike Burnley.

Of course, you could argue Kompany should have realised that and been more pragmatic, but philosophy and ideals are obviously more prominent in the modern game. If he ends up at Bayern, he'll have been proved right.

Bear in mind, too, that Bayern have already been turned down by their first three choices, and they only hire German-speaking managers. That limits their pool somewhat.

---

Was going to say something similar. Ironically there’s now quite a lot of anger at Burnley that he wasn’t more pragmatic last year, spent a bunch of money on young players and got them relegated, and now it looks like he’s done it as some sort of year long job interview in which he falls into one of the biggest jobs in world football.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LA Bluebird

Was going to say something similar. Ironically there’s now quite a lot of anger at Burnley that he wasn’t more pragmatic last year, spent a bunch of money on young players and got them relegated, and now it looks like he’s done it as some sort of year long job interview in which he falls into one of the biggest jobs in world football.

---

I don't think a player of his stature was planning to spend the rest of his life at a club like Burnley. He got them promoted, and now they're coming back down again like most newly promoted teams do.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Rjk

so Sean Dyche gets Burnley into Europe and ends up at Everton, while Kompany gets them relegated and is wanted by Bayern Munich?

---

That's coz Dyche is a bell


...I think he also got Brnly relegated.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wales-Bales

Yeah, I wouldn't write him off until I saw how he did with a better group of players.

---

Using this logic should every lower level manager have a crack at a top four club?

Maybe managers should start off at the top and work their way down instead

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by superfeathers

Using this logic should every lower level manager have a crack at a top four club?

Maybe managers should start off at the top and work their way down instead

---

It's said about players as well. I'm ****ed if i get the logic. I'm an average every day plasterer, by the logic used i should be carrying out ceiling repairs on the Sistine Chapel. (I don't think)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by superfeathers

Using this logic should every lower level manager have a crack at a top four club?

Maybe managers should start off at the top and work their way down instead

---

Vincent Kompany is not an everyday football person, he has a stellar CV as a player, both in the Premier League and at international level. He went back to his hometown club as player-manager, before moving to Burnley where he got promotion at the first attempt. After a season in the Premier League with limited players, he now wants to have a crack at a bigger club. It seems like an obvious career move that would have been carefully planned, and there's no way he would be going backwards with another season in the Championship.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Tuerto

It's said about players as well. I'm ****ed if i get the logic. I'm an average every day plasterer, by the logic used i should be carrying out ceiling repairs on the Sistine Chapel. (I don't think)

---

That's quite a tragic analogy :biggrin:

At the moment, Kompany is in danger of joining the Lampard, Gerrard and Rooney school of management where you keep on getting manager jobs because of what you did as a player. To be fair to Gerrard, he did manage Rangers to an unbeaten title winning season and Kompany did win what is widely regarded as the weakest Championship in ages, but not one of the four have earned the right to take charge of clubs like Bayern, Villa, Chelsea and Birmingham so early in their management careers.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

At the moment, Kompany is in danger of joining the Lampard, Gerrard and Rooney school of management where you keep on getting manager jobs because of what you did as a player. To be fair to Gerrard, he did manage Rangers to an unbeaten title winning season and Kompany did win what is widely regarded as the weakest Championship in ages, but not one of the four have earned the right to take charge of clubs like Bayern, Villa, Chelsea and Birmingham so early in their management careers.

---

I agree with that, but there will always be a pool of players that the big clubs are willing to take a chance on because of their on-field exploits, and he one of them. He was a great player with good leadership skills, and he played under one of the worlds best coaches, so I can understand the attraction. Bayern Munich weren't dominant last season, and they finished 18 points behind the champions, so they will see this as a gamble worth taking. Personally, I like these sink or swim scenarios, and a few former former elite players have come out on top in the past.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Tuerto

It's said about players as well. I'm ****ed if i get the logic. I'm an average every day plasterer, by the logic used i should be carrying out ceiling repairs on the Sistine Chapel. (I don't think)

---

Michaelangelo's work would have been replaced by Artex had the SistineChapel been built in the 70s.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

Michaelangelo's work would have been replaced by Artex had the SistineChapel been built in the 70s.

---

Virtual reality in the 2020's.

Anyway, the crux of the matter is which scenario would you choose when it came to renovating the Sistine Chapel?

A) Tuerto telling Michelangelo how it should be done.
B) Michelangelo telling Tuerto how it should be done.
C) I failed at painting by numbers, and I've never been up that high before.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

Michaelangelo's work would have been replaced by Artex had the SistineChapel been built in the 70s.

---

Timber Decking around the Colosseum.

I see Bellamy isn't joining him, the old romantic in me would love to see Bellamy manager of Cardiff.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sparticus_Mills

I see Bellamy isn't joining him, the old romantic in me would love to see Bellamy manager of Cardiff.

---

Me too.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sparticus_Mills

I see Bellamy isn't joining him, the old romantic in me would love to see Bellamy manager of Cardiff.

---

Same.

But is there any difference between Kompany being out of his depth at Bayern and Bellamy being out of his depth here?

He must have the same agent as Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting

Pep had a year at Barca B.

Look at him now.

They don't all have to start off at bloody Accrington or Halifax to earn their stripes ffs.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Wales-Bales

Anyway, the crux of the matter is which scenario would you choose when it came to renovating the Sistine Chapel?

A) Tuerto telling Michelangelo how it should be done.
B) Michelangelo telling Tuerto how it should be done.
C) I failed at painting by numbers, and I've never been up that high before.

---

I would choose your good self in order to instruct Michelangelo. There's nothing you don't know and you're very talented.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Tuerto

I would choose your good self in order to instruct Michelangelo. There's nothing you don't know and you're very talented.

---

I did take art at school as I though it would be a dodge, but then found out it came with history of art lessons, and those classes were delivered during the lunchbreak! Homework was horrendous too, and I had to write loads of essays. On balance it was worth it, as it got me into music/photography, etc., but my best subject was maths and I always aced the exams with 90% plus.