Manchester City took on Burnley just over a year ago when Pep Guardiola made some strong claims about Vincent Kompany
It feels a lot longer than a year ago that Vincent Kompany was being touted as a future Manchester City option.
“He will be back sooner or later," he said. "His destiny to be manager of City is already written in the stars. It’s going to happen. I don’t know when, but it’s going to happen."ALSO READ: Flying suitcases and Why Always Me? Inside Mancini's Man City dressing room As daft as it sounds given they lost 6-0, Burnley were really, really good. City were in terrific form on their way to the Treble yet Burnley troubled them more in the opening half-hour of the game than Champions League side RB Leipzig had days earlier. Despite the Erling Haaland-inspired thumping, Kompany left the Etihad with even more credit in the bank that day.
The fact that Kompany appears relatively safe in his job should speak to the difficult circumstances in which he is working. The former City captain has had to mould together an inexperienced team in a new division where clubs they are competing with are racking up tens or hundreds of millions of pounds in losses in order to have as good a team as possible.
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