Newspapers and reports indicated that company (38 years old), coach Burnley Who was relegated to the first division (Championship) in England this season, is on the verge of succession Thomas Tuchel.
According to the newspaper “Bild” and the “Sky” network, a preliminary agreement was reached between Bayern and Kompany for the Belgian to become the next coach of the Bavarian club.
“Bild” revealed that… Bayern Munich Now an agreement has been reached with Burnley, as Kompany still has a four-year contract.
After defending the colors of Hamburg when he was a player (2006/08), Kompany played For Manchester City The Englishman (2008/19), before starting his coaching career with his former Belgian team Anderlecht in the summer of 2019, where he spent a season as a player and coach.
In the summer of 2022, he took over the leadership of Burnley and won the first division title with him in the spring of 2023, but he failed to keep them among the elite clubs and ended the 2023/24 season in nineteenth place in the league. Premier League Excellent.
Search for an alternative to Tuchel
Bayern is looking for a new coach, after deciding at the end of last February to part ways with Tuchel at the end of his season after a series of disappointing results, as the Bavarian team left empty-handed this season.
Bayern suffered a series of setbacks in its quest for a new coach, as it first tried to sign the Spaniard Xabi Alonso Who announced at the end of last March that he would remain with Bayer LeverkusenThen he tried with his former coach, Julian Nagelsmann, but the latter renewed his contract as head of the technical staff of the German national team, then Ralf Rangnick, who decided to remain coach of Austria until the summer of 2026.