Former Burnley supervisor Vincent Kompany claims he misplaced his cool with Johann Berg Gudmundsson final season as a result of they have been ‘giving our lives for our membership’.
For the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons, the Clarets granted Sky Sports activities behind-the-scenes entry to file a documentary sequence on the membership.
Forward of the discharge of season two, a clip emerged on social media of Kompany berating Gudmundsson at coaching with exasperation and ferocity.
“Joey, don’t f***ing check me. Don’t f***ing check me. Sufficient of the f***ing moaning. Sufficient of the f***ing moaning!” Kompany shouted.
“Play f***ing soccer. You’ve acquired to f***ing work for the whole lot. F***ing play! What number of occasions do I’ve to let you know? Cease f***ing moaning.
“What? Have you ever acquired one thing you wish to talk to the staff?
“You wish to talk one thing, you massive boy? You’re a giant boy, you wish to speak?”
After Gudmundsson protested his innocence, Kompany retorted: “No, you’re moaning about the whole lot!
“Physique language is f***ing s*** and I’m not accepting it. Play! F***ing hell man.”
“It’s f***ing life or loss of life. F***ing play! F***ing… I’ve had a f***ing sufficient of this!”
Burnley ended up getting relegated from the Premier League, and Kompany was appointed as the pinnacle coach of Bayern Munich.
In an interview with DH les Sports activities+, Kompany elaborated on the verbal bust-up with Gudmundsson.
“I’ve additionally defined to him calmly!” Kompany laughed. “That is truly the primary time this yr at Bayern that i don’t have a digital camera crew filming my total season for a documentary. It was the case at Anderlecht and Burnley.
“When each speech and each coaching session is filmed, there’s all the time a second like that. However the message of all that’s that we’re giving our lives for our membership. If the membership will get relegated, folks will lose their jobs. we’ve a duty.
“We should always by no means discover ourselves in a scenario the place we’ve an absence of consideration. It wasn’t a few unhealthy move or a nasty tactical selection, however about basic issues: operating and combating for one another.
“He had damaged the fundamental ideas.”