Footage has re-emerged of Vincent Kompany’s brutal dressing-room tirade aimed at his Anderlecht players and Manchester City fans have reacted in delight after realising the Belgian boss was picking on a new United man.
The clip, taken after his side conceded a last-minute equaliser to draw 2-2 at Sint-Truiden in October 2021, sees the manager show the team ‘one f***ing side of [him] that [they] haven’t f***ing seen’.
First of all, Kompany aggressively reminds centre-back Wesley Hoedt that it is his decision whether they play ‘four, five or six’ men at the back as other members of the team watch on in shock.
He tells the Dutchman that he will ‘take responsibility’ if Anderlecht ‘lose or don’t perform well’ as a result of his tactics.
Kompany then slams new Man United signing Joshua Zirkzee which has amused City supporters, who watched the Belgian lift ten major trophies in a sky blue shirt.
Footage has re-emerged of Vincent Kompany ‘s brutal dressing-room tirade at Anderlecht players
Kompany slams a new Man United signing which has amused City supporters, who watched the Belgian lift ten major trophies in a sky blue shirt
He tells Joshua Zirkzee: ‘You come off, I don’t need a f***ing smile but I need attitude that’s perfect’
The now Bayern Munich manager says: ‘The second thing, Zirk last time I talk about your attitude.
‘You come off, I don’t need a f***ing smile but I need attitude that’s perfect.’
Almost screaming, Kompany adds: ‘You were not good, just like all the other ones.
‘I could have taken off from Hendrik [Van Crombrugge] to the last one without complaining.
‘Today we deserved to lose anyway. We can be f***ing happy with one point.
’95 minutes we just wasted time. You wasted your time, I wasted my time. It was better not to come. It was better to send the under-21s.’
Zirkzee, who was on loan from Bayern Munich at the time, overcame the setback to end the league season on 15 goals and eight assists from 32 matches.
This earned the Dutch forward a move to Bologna where he endured a tough 2022-23 campaign before scoring 12 in 37 in an impressive following season.
Almost screaming, Kompany adds: ‘You were not good, just like all the other ones’
Zirkzee, who was on loan from Bayern at the time, overcame the setback to end the league season on 15 goals and eight assists from 32 matches
Kompany currently manages Bayern Munich having joined from Burnley
He moved to the Red Devils in the summer for £35m and scored a fine goal in his first Premier League match against Fulham.
Kompany currently manages Bayern Munich having joined from Burnley, who he got promoted from the Championship before seeing them straight back down.
The German side have enjoyed a perfect start to the league season before putting nine goals past Dinamo Zagreb in their opening Champions League match.