Kompany on why Burnley will continue playing attacking football despite their position
Kompany on why Burnley will continue playing attacking football despite their position
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00:00 Hi Vincent, I heard Jürgen Klopp and Eddie Howe both say recently that they feel the Premier League's changed in terms of the organisation of teams,
00:08 even all the way down the league and the commitment to attack.
00:11 Do you think yourselves and Wolves are probably two good examples of that?
00:14 You've seen Wolves obviously beat City, beat Tottenham this season.
00:17 Gary O'Neill seems to be someone who has a similar kind of attitude to you in terms of those kind of games.
00:23 Yeah, but I think Wolves has for some time now not really been a bottom of the Premier League kind of club anymore.
00:34 I think in the time when I was playing against Wolves, they were already very, very difficult to play against,
00:41 very, very dangerous, good players.
00:44 And obviously that's still in the club, definitely.
00:49 But I think what the managers maybe mean is there was four, then there was six, then there's eight.
00:59 And now it seems to be like the entire league is filled with teams who can run, first of all.
01:05 You used to always have this big gap where at the very top you had these teams who had all the players who could do everything.
01:15 And then down the bottom or in the middle of the league, you would have always teams where the best players weren't really running
01:23 or the most experienced centre-back weren't really mobile or weren't really quick.
01:27 Now that's gone.
01:29 There's no top players anymore in any squad.
01:31 I mean, you go through the Bournemouth team when we played them, you know, everyone runs.
01:36 And that makes it tougher even for top teams to play against the lesser teams,
01:42 because I suppose they're more ready to exploit a day where you might not be on your best.
01:52 Is that down to the managers?
01:54 Is that down to the money that's in the league, the fact that they're able to have stronger squads?
01:59 Well, money brings managers, money brings players.
02:02 So I suppose a little bit.
02:04 I mean, you have a competition who financially dominates every other league in the world, really.
02:13 You know, and I remember, so when I got into the Premier League, sorry, I'm taking it down memory lane now.
02:22 It's about 20 years ago.
02:25 It's ridiculous.
02:26 No, 15 years ago, let's say, when I arrived in the Premier League,
02:29 I remember that the standard of academies in England wasn't that good for a while.
02:35 You know, so I would say that the standard of infrastructure as well,
02:38 training grounds wasn't that good.
02:39 Players, yes, but not everything around it yet.
02:43 But with the money that the Premier League has earned, you know, within a year,
02:48 they were able to decide we're going to be the best.
02:50 And they got the best academies now.
02:52 They got the best training grounds, all the facilities.
02:56 There was a little bit of tactical lacking at some point with the Spanish
02:59 and the German, if you remember, there was a period where it was tough for English teams in Europe,
03:02 even big squads.
03:05 They got the best managers in, and so that's solved.
03:07 And now what you're seeing now is just, you know,
03:12 the reality is that a bottom of the league team in England can afford what a top eight team in Germany can afford.
03:20 And that's what you're seeing.
03:21 And that's why every game is so tough.
03:24 That's why players are fit, fitter, because you can cherry pick everywhere.
03:29 Where are we at, Cavanagh? Are we proven wrong?
03:33 Just to you.
03:34 Just a quick one then Vinny.
03:37 Yeah, you know, after a win, I'm not letting you out of here anyway.
03:42 Not doing five minutes after we get three points and another five hours when we lose one.
03:48 Just going back to Saturday, did you have some time with Paul Heckingbottom after the game?
03:52 Or was there not really time?
03:53 You know what, in the Championship we had more time,
03:56 but we had less interviews.
03:57 In the Premier League, we have not as much time.
04:02 But I saw him, like I said, I saw him at the award dinner not so long ago.
04:07 And the challenges he's facing is exactly the same as we're facing.
04:13 There's no difference.
04:14 You know, so we're each trying to solve it in our own ways.
04:19 But the nature of the job is objectively quite difficult, you know.
04:29 And there's no other way.
04:31 And that's what it is.
04:33 It's a challenge.
04:35 Yeah, you spoke well that night about how you two have been sort of neck and neck,
04:38 really, since you started.
04:40 Yeah.
04:40 Going up and then sort of down the bottom at the moment.
04:42 You've had quite a rivalry, really, haven't you?
04:45 Yeah, yeah.
04:46 And we got a thumping at that place.
04:49 You know, 5-2.
04:50 And that's why I say, you know, it was, we were the best team last year in the
04:55 Championship, but they weren't far off and they gave us a thumping.
04:59 So it's, I have massive respect for, like, of the last 18 months,
05:05 I've really seen three quarters of the time, two thirds of the time with him has
05:09 been really successful.
05:11 And, yeah.
05:12 You expect him to sort of bounce back?
05:14 I mean, you look at Gary O'Neill, he got, surprisingly, he got sacked at Bournemouth.
05:17 But he's come back at Wolves, so Paul could do the same if he does, you know,
05:21 if this is the end for him at Sheffield.
05:24 Yeah, yeah, I have no doubt.
05:26 I have no doubt.
05:27 It's like, I said it before, I don't know anything about his club, you know,
05:39 I don't know anything about his team, so I can't make any judgement.
05:42 The only thing I can say is that last year for us, it was a rivalry at the top
05:49 and the nature of the job in the Premier League is just tough.
05:54 But the biggest thing that I say in general is, I think you can accept that
06:04 football is this way, but personally, I don't accept it.
06:10 I know that the decisions have to be accepted, but my hope for football is
06:18 that it can be different, you know, and that's it.
06:26 If you do a bad job, you do a bad job.
06:29 If you do a good job, you do a good job.
06:30 But if the environment is right around you, then you don't have an excuse.
06:34 You know, that's fine.
06:36 But just in general, I think that when you set out to, sorry to put it this way,
06:44 when you set out to build a railroad or something, you know, you don't say,
06:47 well, we go left now, then we go right, then we go and then we go back that way.
06:51 You plan on how it needs to be built and you commit to it.
06:55 It's no different, you know.