Let me give you four numbers. 101. 24. 93. 100. The first is the points Kompany's Burnley accumulated winning the Championship in 2022/23. The second is the points they collected getting relegated from the Premier League the following season. The third is the goals Bayern scored under him winning the Bundesliga in 2024/25. The fourth is the Bundesliga goals Bayern have already scored in 2025/26, with six games still to play. One manager. Four numbers. One of the most unusual managerial careers in modern football.
101. Burnley won the Championship by ten points, scored 72 goals, and played football so attractive that Tottenham came calling that summer. Kompany turned them down. You know what happened next.
The 24 is where Komoany went to rockbottom.. The same manager with the same system and same philosophy but with different quality of opponent. The Premier League exposed every limitation in that Burnley squad and Kompany refused to adapt. He finished his second season as head coach in 19th place and with 24 points.
You won't believe that despite the relegation on his CV, Bayern Munich then paid £10.2 million in compensation to hire him.
93. In his first season, Bayern lost only twice all season and won the Bundesliga at a canter.
Then this season, Kompany added Luis Díaz to a forward line already containing Harry Kane, Michael Olise, and Jamal Musiala. Kane leads Europe with 47 goals in all competitions from 39 appearances. Olise leads Europe for assists with 25. Díaz has contributed 22 goals and assists.
Bayern have already equalled the 2019/20 treble-winning side's Bundesliga goal tally and are one goal from the all-time single-season league record of 101, set in 1971/72, with six games remaining. They will break it. They also set the outright record for the most consecutive wins to start a European season, winning their first 16 competitive games.
The Premier League did not break him. It showed him exactly what his system needed to work and Bayern gave him that.
He used that to beat Real Madrid 2-1 in the first leg of the UCL Quarterfinal today.
So I ask- ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
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The reaction to Chelsea beating Wrexham has been genuinely bizarre. You’ve got professional pundits and fans openly calling for VAR to be scrapped, even though it intervened correctly on two occasions simply because it denied them the romantic outcome they wanted.
We scream for VAR when it makes huge mistakes, but when it gets decisions right and the team people wanted to win doesn’t, suddenly the system is the problem. That kind of selective outrage is pure madness.
Liverpool spent an initial £240 million in the summer to sign Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak
The result has been a combined nine goals and seven assists
The athletic does not think this is newsworthy
🌀⚡️ BLUE IMPULSE 🧠🌀
Let’s dismantle the misinformation around Aarón Anselmino — properly.
🔺 Chelsea signed Aarón Anselmino in summer 2024 and left him on loan at Boca Juniors.
🌀 The key detail often ignored: he got injured, and Chelsea chose to bring him under their own medical supervision to manage recovery.
🔺 “He played zero minutes for Chelsea in 2024/25.”
🌀 True — because he was injured and in recovery, while Chelsea were also pushing hard for top-four.
🌀 He still featured for Chelsea youth sides and later made his debut at the Club World Cup.
🔺 With no immediate first-team space, he was loaned to Borussia Dortmund (summer 2025).
🌀 The aim was simple: structured minutes, rhythm, fitness after a long layoff.
🔺 Did he “break into” Dortmund’s side?
🌀 Reality: 10 appearances out of 28 possible games, with recurrent injury relapses.
🌀 His minutes weren’t being carefully managed, and Dortmund also began publicly tapping him up in the media.
🔺 January 2026: Chelsea explore CB options.
🌀 Jérémy Jacquet was a summer-only deal due to Rennes’ stance — not a winter option.
🌀 Chelsea still needed immediate cover, which is why Mamadou Sarr made sense — already trusted by the coach and match-fit.
🔺 Anselmino’s Dortmund loan was NOT “terminated.”
🌀 It had a recall clause — legally and contractually planned.
🔺 “He returned expecting to stay at Chelsea.”
🌀 False. Aaron was fully aware Chelsea wanted him out of Dortmund, especially amid tapping concerns.
🔺 Why Strasbourg?
🌀 At RC Strasbourg Alsace he gets:
• controlled minutes
• close medical oversight
• consistent football
• a clear pathway — just like Santos and now Sarr
🌀 Most importantly: Aaron is on board with the plan, motivated, and excited — including reuniting with fellow Argentines.
Don’t fall for propaganda.
This was squad management, not deception. 💙
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The biggest ick isn’t just someone who lies. It’s someone who lies to themselves. A flip flopper, fantasy addict, emotional con artist. A validation addict & emotionally unavailable love bomber who performs closeness but has no real anchor inside. Let me explain:
Feel sorry for Florian Wirtz, those around him should've looked after his best interests more, horrible career choice that he'll regret in years to come.
Why doesn’t 27 year old Euros winning LB or 25 year old Champions League winning RB ever count as experienced in these convos? Who do Arsenal have in their team that are so much more experienced?
Genuinely insane to post this, completely ignoring how he died, who was responsible, that they have remained a member of your organisation for the last two years. Add UEFA to the complicit in genocide list, if they weren’t there already. Shameful.
Most Chelsea fans on this app have zero control over their emotions. Even if we lose after going 50 games unbeaten, you will still see people crying and moaning.
I remember last summer when Maresca came in and was trying all sorts of combinations and the fanbase was in a total meltdown after every game. I mean in fvcking pre-season with a new manager.
As far as this fanbase goes, context does not exist. It's meltdown nonstop whenever we lose, it doesn't matter how many wins before or how we lost. Nobody cares. At times, it's unbearable reading all that, but fans will always be fans. Our own is just the extreme. I don't even understand why.