VINCENT KOMPANY INTERVIEW: PART THREE

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The final of a three-part interview from the new boss

2022-06-19T10:00:00.000Z

VINCENT KOMPANY INTERVIEW: PART THREE

The final of a three-part interview from the new boss

2022-06-19T10:00:00.000Z

The final of a three-part interview from the new boss

In the third and final part of newly appointed manager Vincent Kompany’s sit down interview, he offers his views on the Championship, looks ahead to pre-season, and talks transfers and his contacts in the game.

Vincent Kompany on the Championship:

“Until you’ve done the Championship, then you don’t know anything about the Championship. But I’m a quick learner and I’m ready for the challenge. I am also completely ready to admit what I don’t know, so I’m surrounded by people who do know. I will make sure that I learn quickly and that’s just a matter of time. We’ll have the same interview in three months’ time, and it’ll be different.”

Vincent Kompany on pre-season:

“Hopefully three or four days before pre-season, I’ll be there and obviously we have a chance to map out the training sessions and what we want to get done in pre-season. It’s different now in the sense of course everybody was waiting on organising pre-season games and training camps. So, all of this is going a little last minute but it’s normal. It’s part of what happens in a transition phase. We’ll be ready to go in pre-season and, work towards that goal I mentioned before.”

Vincent Kompany on transfers:

“At this moment in time in terms of transfers, it’s a busy period as much as an exciting period. It means obviously with having come down to the Championship, there are still possibilities of players leaving because we have to let them go, which is part of getting relegated. At the same time, there’s opportunities of bringing new players into the group who could help us already, maybe getting closer to this idea we have about where we want to go with the Club.

“That’s why I’m saying it’s a busy time, there’s a lot of uncertainty but it’s also an exciting time because there’s a lot of opportunity and we’re going for the second, which is the opportunities which we see in this moment.”

Vincent Kompany on his contacts:

“You borrow as a last resort, if you don’t have the funds available to bring in the quality that you want, if there’s a position where you have an immediate need to bring in a player to help you, so borrowing is something you do in the last resort. I think our main idea is to see if we can find players who are willing to stay longer at the Club to develop them as well because the budgets we’re in will not allow us to probably bring in the seasoned guys. Also, do we need to, we want to bring in players who are able to commit for a bit of a longer period to the Club and create and add value to the Club when other teams come to take them from us.

"In the end it’s like I said, it’s something that I’m quite familiar with because when I was back in Belgium the only type of deals we used to have to make were this kind of undervalued young players, I’m not talking young, young, but still players with a big future ahead and bringing them in and creating value through them. Seeing them develop into players who help us become a better team. So, nothing different to what I’ve done for the last three years, and the phone book is big enough I think to have some interesting options."