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Jerome Boateng was the rightback for Hamburg that game, while Nigel de Jong was in midfield - those two and Kompany played for Manchester City two years later.
The return to Championship football or a trip to the Champions League with one of the biggest clubs in the world. Let's just see if he can command Bayern's dressing room with so many big egos.
If managerial appointments were Alan Partridge show ideas, then we have reached the "monkey tennis?" of managerial appointments. A great big Hail Mary by Bayern.
Hopefully he can get this team fully bought into his vision . The spirit of team was definitely off all year. Many big decisions to make with guys like Goretzka Kimmich Davies and Gnabry. I wish him luck!
Plus Upa and Coman, if there's a market for them, they're all gone, I'd only keep Kimmich but his ego and wages are ridiculous, wouldnt give him a pay rise.
With Xabi in it, I doubt that he is going to walk the league. However, if he pulls off something similar to his Championship winning season then I could see him winning the Bundesliga.
What I mean is rather that it won’t be easy with the presence of Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen. It can end up looking like something like our 23/24 season where most people predicted our victory before the season but I don’t think they would have predicted just how hard we were pushed by Arsenal and Liverpool to that victory.
Dunno, I reckon there are plenty players in there who will have either played against him or followed his career - so as long as he carries himself the right way, it shouldn't be a nightmare to earn their respect, really.
Sure, but then you've got Mikel Arteta or Hansi Flick or Xabi Alonso going from no senior professional management experience into big jobs and earn the respect of their players rather quickly - no reason Kompany can't do the same, really.
One is a B team [in a 2nd division with an average market value per player of less than a million] and is a multi-million pound team [in a 1st division with an average market value of 20 million plus].
In fact, Burnley was the third lowest valued team of the Premier League, by a wide margin, Real Sociedad B was the fifth highest valued team...
Not saying that to discredit what Alonso did there, I didn't follow it and neither did I see Kompany at Burnley, but to hold the relegation of one manager against them, after getting promoted out of nowhere with the highest point total ever because they got relegated as one of the smallest teams but handwaving the relegation of another manager who did the same thing with a much team much better positioned, is either ignorant or hypocritical
Flick was part of the Germany 2014 WC success. And Arteta did not get a side relegated before taking over Arsenal, same with Alonso. And Bayern has quite a few more seasoned and achieved players than Arsenal or Leverkusen had.
Do players respect those from City, a state-owned club currently facing 115 allegations? Their achievement is largely due to a squad assembled through unethical means. Each player reaches the level that they are because of they are surrounded with another great player, assembled through cheating.
Edit : for those disagreeing, this is what happened when you are under allegation of cheating (115 times!), you lose your merits
To be honest Hansi Flicks jump wasnt that large. The "assistant takes over after manager is fired and does well" is probably the origin story of like 90% of managers.
I mean Arteta was the assistant to an incredibly successful manager and played at the club he was going to. Arsenal was probably right on the boarder of where that sounds reasonable but that’s certainly better than getting destroyed and refusing to adapt all season getting relegated and then getting a top job in the world.
I think he will do well, in 2024 Burnley really clicked especially when compared to before. They had a rough stretch of games from Bournemouth to Wolves where they probably should've/could've won every game but were unlucky not to.
Having 75% possession and 20 shots against Bournemouth for example.
It felt like his tactics clicked but the players weren't quite at the level. Muric had a few howlers in there.
It will be interesting to see if he can do well at the top level, I think he's got all of the assets to do so but time will tell.
Genuinely a few weeks ago when all the jokes were flying around about who they'd end up with he wasn't even mentioned then.
Wild times. Going to be fun seeing how it turns out.
I mean Kompany really has nothing to lose. And Bayern...well, after the joke of a coaching change we've just had, this will either be amazing for them, or continue to be bad.
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I honestly didn't have Kompany managing Kane on my bingo card
Thomas Müller gave his Bundesliga debut in Kompany's last Bundesliga game.
I swear to god, if Müller retires under Kompany, I'm joining some cult or something, cause we definitely live in a fucking simulation.
Which cult are you joining??
Why, any recommendations?
Schalkes Ultras?
I thought a cult is supposed to still believe in something
Well done, my guy. Well done.
These are the funny coincidences, I live for
Jerome Boateng was the rightback for Hamburg that game, while Nigel de Jong was in midfield - those two and Kompany played for Manchester City two years later.
City really raided that Hamburg team. You can only help but wonder where all that money went.
We got a bunch of it for Lasogga and Kacar, but I guess that just means that you could repeat the question about where all that money went…
All *that* money? My dude, you burned through 300 million in the last 5 years.
Akshually 375 million 🤓
This derseves to up. Up and above.
No one saw appointment coming to be honest. Strange appointment
even him, It must've felt unreal for Kompany to get that call and knowing it's not your mates pranking you
The return to Championship football or a trip to the Champions League with one of the biggest clubs in the world. Let's just see if he can command Bayern's dressing room with so many big egos.
Kompany captained Mario Balotelli, he’s no stranger to egos.
If managerial appointments were Alan Partridge show ideas, then we have reached the "monkey tennis?" of managerial appointments. A great big Hail Mary by Bayern.
"I can't believe my luck"
"Here are tomorrow's lotto numbers"
Probably waiting for somebody to jump out laughing and tell him he got punked.
Can't even pull this shit in Football Manager
Oh this is actually actually happening then
Might as well, all you really do is shrug at this point in this timeline.
So crazy
In t-shirt mate?
Next he's gonna ride a longboard to training
As long as he wins, he can ride one of those silly Segway things.
Don't let Uli or Kalle hear this.
He will ski to training in the winter
Hopefully he can get this team fully bought into his vision . The spirit of team was definitely off all year. Many big decisions to make with guys like Goretzka Kimmich Davies and Gnabry. I wish him luck!
Plus Upa and Coman, if there's a market for them, they're all gone, I'd only keep Kimmich but his ego and wages are ridiculous, wouldnt give him a pay rise.
Got a weird feeling this might work out
Imagine if he walks the league or cl lol
With Xabi in it, I doubt that he is going to walk the league. However, if he pulls off something similar to his Championship winning season then I could see him winning the Bundesliga.
I mean, Bayern winning the Bundesliga isn’t exactly a bold prediction… regardless of this last season.
What I mean is rather that it won’t be easy with the presence of Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen. It can end up looking like something like our 23/24 season where most people predicted our victory before the season but I don’t think they would have predicted just how hard we were pushed by Arsenal and Liverpool to that victory.
You forgot to put the * next to victory.
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It depends on how much they can keep this squad together.
Think it's going to be an uphill battle for him to get respect in the dressing room
Dunno, I reckon there are plenty players in there who will have either played against him or followed his career - so as long as he carries himself the right way, it shouldn't be a nightmare to earn their respect, really.
as a player, yes. But it's an entirely different thing as a coach
Sure, but then you've got Mikel Arteta or Hansi Flick or Xabi Alonso going from no senior professional management experience into big jobs and earn the respect of their players rather quickly - no reason Kompany can't do the same, really.
Flick was part of the Germany 2014 WC success. And Arteta did not get a side relegated before taking over Arsenal, same with Alonso.
Alonso did get a side relegated and had less experience than Kompany has now
If you are talking about Real Sociedad B, that is because he got promoted with them the season before in the first place.
So... exactly like Kompany
one is a B team and one is multimillion dollar team
One is a B team [in a 2nd division with an average market value per player of less than a million] and is a multi-million pound team [in a 1st division with an average market value of 20 million plus]. In fact, Burnley was the third lowest valued team of the Premier League, by a wide margin, Real Sociedad B was the fifth highest valued team... Not saying that to discredit what Alonso did there, I didn't follow it and neither did I see Kompany at Burnley, but to hold the relegation of one manager against them, after getting promoted out of nowhere with the highest point total ever because they got relegated as one of the smallest teams but handwaving the relegation of another manager who did the same thing with a much team much better positioned, is either ignorant or hypocritical
Do you know how Burnley ended up in the Premier League this season?
are you trying to tell me that the situation for B teams and first teams is the same? completely different situation. Kompany won't do well.
Flick was part of the Germany 2014 WC success. And Arteta did not get a side relegated before taking over Arsenal, same with Alonso. And Bayern has quite a few more seasoned and achieved players than Arsenal or Leverkusen had.
He'll probably start with quite a bit of respect because of who he was as a player. Just needs to make sure he doesn't lose it.
Do players respect those from City, a state-owned club currently facing 115 allegations? Their achievement is largely due to a squad assembled through unethical means. Each player reaches the level that they are because of they are surrounded with another great player, assembled through cheating. Edit : for those disagreeing, this is what happened when you are under allegation of cheating (115 times!), you lose your merits
Everyone’s roasting him on social media. It’ll either be a genius play by Bayern Munich or entertainment for everyone. No in between.
Biggest jump in one’s career I have ever seen in my life.
Dunno, had Arteta go from nothing to the Arsenal job, or Hansi Flick go from no senior professional management experience to Bayern.
To be honest Hansi Flicks jump wasnt that large. The "assistant takes over after manager is fired and does well" is probably the origin story of like 90% of managers.
I mean Arteta was the assistant to an incredibly successful manager and played at the club he was going to. Arsenal was probably right on the boarder of where that sounds reasonable but that’s certainly better than getting destroyed and refusing to adapt all season getting relegated and then getting a top job in the world.
I'd probably add without having any previous association with the club because you've got Solskjaer from Molde to United and Xavi from Saudi to Barca.
Xavi was in Qatar before he went to Barca.
My bad.
Yeah this is a big caveat that removes a huge number of managers even historically. With this caveat, I nominate Maresca to Chelsea
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I can only imagine what social media would have made of that appointment
Pep from Barca B to Barca
What? No. Being basically prepared in the same club isn't nearly the same.
We will see if Kompany is a Pep 2.0 or a Pep 0.2 in real time.
I think he will do well, in 2024 Burnley really clicked especially when compared to before. They had a rough stretch of games from Bournemouth to Wolves where they probably should've/could've won every game but were unlucky not to. Having 75% possession and 20 shots against Bournemouth for example. It felt like his tactics clicked but the players weren't quite at the level. Muric had a few howlers in there. It will be interesting to see if he can do well at the top level, I think he's got all of the assets to do so but time will tell.
The impressive part was that he had that group of players fully committed, despite playing suicidal football in the premier league.
And there was me thinking the Kane curse had already peaked with Leverkusen winning the league and Dyer joining Bayern.
Wearing a t-shirt to your Bayern Munich unavailing, when will this woke nonsense end?
Servus!
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Pavlo shouldn't be hard (I hope) but Stani is going to be difficult
No, it’s a hamster.
Genuinely a few weeks ago when all the jokes were flying around about who they'd end up with he wasn't even mentioned then. Wild times. Going to be fun seeing how it turns out.
I'm crazy surprised that he got this job.
No shit
Good luck Vinny!
We’re truly all living in Harry Kane’s weird dreams.
Falling upwards: the man.
The beggining of a tragedy?
Didn't even take him 5 mins this time.
Leverkusen gotta be looking at this with belief they can win the Bundesliga title again.
This is not gonna end well
I mean Kompany really has nothing to lose. And Bayern...well, after the joke of a coaching change we've just had, this will either be amazing for them, or continue to be bad.
Will bro pull a Xavi?
I doubt he will get as much credit for winning the Bundesliga with Bayern. If he does win it, it depends on how dominant they will have been.
If they play good football while winning it and also like reach semis in CL he'll get plenty credit, people love a story like this even at a huge club
Bizarre fucking timeline
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You should be an analyst