Vincent Kompany

[G rangetown Blue]

Re: Vincent Kompany

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.

[The Lone Gunman]

Re: Vincent Kompany

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.

[blue matt]

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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

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

[Trigger]

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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.

[Wales-Bales]

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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.

[LA Bluebird]

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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.

[Wales-Bales]

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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.

[Divine Wright]

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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.

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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

[Tuerto]

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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)

[Wales-Bales]

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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.

[Wales-Bales]

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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

[the other bob wilson]

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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.

[Wales-Bales]

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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.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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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.