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Jiggafini19Deux said:
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Favorite player ever. In my opinion, the greatest leader of this generation of footballers.
It will always be sad that his body failed him so many times, or he'd be right up there with the best center backs of this millennium.

I was nervous for him when he "reportedly" turned down the Chelsea job to stay with Burnley, because he felt he owed it to the club to stay with them through the promotion season into the PL.

I assume he had to have an inkling that even if he failed with Burnley in the PL, which he very much did, that bigger jobs would still be available to him.
Props to him for gambling on himself.

Taking over that Bayern squad, that will likely be very hungry going into next season, is an amazing landing spot for him.
Hopefully a two-three year run, then can come back home and take over at City once Pep finally decides to hang them up.
 
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I'm very intrigued by Kompany and Bayern. I'm not sure I've seen a manager leave a side he got relegated for a top tier club.
 
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Burnley spent $100M on new players last summer, they were relegated with a point total of 24 and the manager of this team is going to now walk into one of the five biggest clubs in the world.

I've yet to see an explanation of any kind let alone one that makes sense.
 
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Jiggafini19Deux said:
Burnley spent $100M on new players last summer, they were relegated with a point total of 24 and the manager of this team is going to now walk into one of the five biggest clubs in the world.

I've yet to see an explanation of any kind let alone one that makes sense.
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My guess would be Bayern are looking around Europe and seeing how well these young managers fresh of long playing careers in the modern games such as Arteta, Motta, and of course Xabi Alonso are doing and believe that under the right circumstances Vincent Kompany can flourish.

It's call FC Hollywood for a reason.
Bayern has been trying to find the best tactical manager available recently Kovac, Flick, Nageslman, and then of course Tuchel

I think what they see in Kompany is a leader who will command respect in the dressing room, and bring some better structure to a club that has been in the news for a lot of the wrong reasons the past few seasons.
Just my two cents.

It could certainly blow up in thier faces, but Kompany at the least will gain the respect of the players.
He has competed and even played with a few of them.
 
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CTIDANDREW said:
My guess would be Bayern are looking around Europe and seeing how well these young managers fresh of long playing careers in the modern games such as Arteta, Motta, and of course Xabi Alonso are doing and believe that under the right circumstances Vincent Kompany can flourish.

It's call FC Hollywood for a reason.
Bayern has been trying to find the best tactical manager available recently Kovac, Flick, Nageslman, and then of course Tuchel

I think what they see in Kompany is a leader who will command respect in the dressing room, and bring some better structure to a club that has been in the news for a lot of the wrong reasons the past few seasons.
Just my two cents.

It could certainly blow up in thier faces, but Kompany at the least will gain the respect of the players.
He has competed and even played with a few of them.
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I think Bayern is "shopping down a different aisle" because they ran out of aisles. Now they're having to take a huge risk on a guy who isn't even 40 yet and isn't too far removed from his playing days. His aura will work for as long as he isn't tactically exposed, which at Burnley happened fast this past year when they were promoted.

Burnley's relegation was not all his fault, but Kompany played a major part in it.

Burnley are reportedly asking for twice the compensation Bayern are offering. It's crazy.

This is the part where Chelsea pay Ruben Amorim more than Mikel Arteta because Liverpool and West Ham told Amorim's agent thanks but no.
 
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Crazy soccer shenanigans going on in Indy. Indy Eleven started in 2013 and is a member of the United Soccer League. They're was an announcement along with the city officials to build a new stadium with shops and a hotel near Lucas Oil stadium.
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They had already started preparing the land and were close to starting construction, when out of the blue, the Mayor announces that Indy is going to build a new soccer stadium on another location in preparation for an MLS team and they are revoking funding for the first stadium. The media and everyone else is like WTH? What's going on? Whatever is going on seems to be very secretive as the media has no idea what happened. The City Council just voted to approve building the second stadium. Seems the owner of the Indy Eleven is getting screwed. Probably pissed off our lousy mayor. The Mayor did say they will buy the land from Indy Eleven for fair market value. We know how those things go. lol

Interesting side note. The site for the Eleven stadium was known to be a cemetery back in the 1800's, but a manufacturing plant had been built there in 1917. Because of sketchy records, there was always speculation that not all of the plots had been found and removed before they built the factory. They found a couple of plots when prepping the land. The city was aware of this when it was proposed and gave its approval. Now they're using it as an excuse to revoke their support.

 
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Look at this pass. Insane.

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She was quite good and played 20 minutes. Excited to see more.

It was 1-0 when a quad substitution of Swanson, Smith, Rodman and Coffey entered the match. Five minutes later it was 2-0 and the chances just kept coming. Emma Hayes is just getting started.
 
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Jiggafini19Deux said:
She was quite good and played 20 minutes. Excited to see more.

It was 1-0 when a quad substitution of Swanson, Smith, Rodman and Coffey entered the match. Five minutes later it was 2-0 and the chances just kept coming. Emma Hayes is just getting started.
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I'm excited to see the next generation fully take control. The last generation was extremely successful so I understand why the USWNT held onto so many of them for 2023. But it's time.
 
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