Vincent Kompany has insisted that he has made the right decision in signing a new five-year contract with Burnley.
Kompany has guided the Clarets back to the Premier League at the first time of asking following their relegation last season and topped the table with an impressive 101 points and only three defeats.
The 37-year-old former Belgium international’s first taste of life as a manager came at Anderlecht, a post he held for two years before leaving by mutual consent in May 2022.
Kompany had been linked with the head coach vacancy at Tottenham Hotspur with the north Londoners seeking a new manager since the departure of Antonio Conte in late March.
Fabrizio Romano claimed that the ex-Manchester City player had held positive talks with Tottenham over the vacancy, while the Daily Mail’s chief football correspondent Sami Mokbel took to Twitter yesterday to confirm that while Spurs did have a genuine interest, it was more exploratory than anything concrete.
Kompany said, as quoted by the Evening Standard: “I still had three or four years left and it’s not something I went chasing but there is a pragmatic reason for signing the new deal,”
“For my pathway, this is the right decision, but it helps when we try and recruit players.
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“When I’m trying to convince a player to come here it’s easier just after I have signed a new deal.
“We have had a massive advantage planning for next season, because we have known about promotion of a long time.
“But we were going to lose that if people were waiting for me to come out with a statement.”
SpursWeb Opinion
Kompany has made the right choice to continue his managerial career at Burnley, his stock is rising after a successful season and he will be given time to establish the Clarets back in the Premier League.
A move to Tottenham would have seen him placed under an intense spotlight to turn around their fortunes and potentially jeopardise his chances of managing Manchester City in the future.
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