It is only early days for Vincent Kompany and Bayern Munich, but there can be no denying how well the Belgian manager has the team playing at the moment.
Coming off of a season without silverware, Kompany recently explained that he can constantly sense the hunger that’s within the squad — a hunger that is only bolstered by the disappointing previous season where they were ever so close to reaching a Champions League final.
“We all have a lot of personal reasons to be very motivated this season. Having experienced it myself as a player, also as a coach, when you have a winning team, sometimes the year after they’ve been hurt is the best year to pick it up with them. The team is hungry. The club is hungry. I’m hungry. We have to show it on the pitch, of course,” Kompany said (via @iMiaSanMia).
From the outside looking in, there is also perhaps an element of satisfaction amongst the Bayern fanbase and pundits alike for how Kompany has this team currently playing combined with the unexpected nature of him having gotten the Bayern job to replace Tuchel. It is an open secret that Bayern had pursued several other options before landing on Kompany, though the club’s front office maintains that the Belgian was always a name on the short list of candidates to replace the former Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, Borussia Dortmund and Mainz boss.
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