Vincent Kompany doesn’t hold back in an astonishing scene in the Burnley documentary fuming with Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
In the clip, Kompany says to the camera “You can’t say, I want confidence. You can’t say I want results. You have to live in a certain way to achieve results.”
Then comes the training ground footage: “You’re not gonna get the ball by asking nicely.”
He says to the camera: “And then its about controlling. Controlling your emotions. It’s being on that fine limit of being passionate and driven, but never reckless. And again, boys, last time, people who behave in that way become winners.”
We go back to the training ground, and this is really where it intensifies.
He says: “You we don’t fucking test me. Don’t fucking test me. Enough of the fucking moaning. Enough of the fucking moaning. Play fucking football. What gives you the fucking right to moan for everything? Fucking play. How many times do I have to tell you? Stop fucking moaning. Why? You got something you want to communicate to the team. You want to communicate to me? You big boy? No, you’re a big boy.”
Gudmundsson says: “You want to finish that tap?”
Kompany: “No. You’re moaning about everything.”
Gudmundsson: “What have I moan about today?”
Kompany: “Body language is fucking shit. I’m not accepting. Fucking hell, man. Fucking all that talking about it, walking out of this, close.”
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— Burnley FC Clips (@BurnleyFC_clips) August 11, 2024
In July 2016, Johann joined newly promoted Premier League side Burnley on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee, and in January 2023 signed a new contract extension with Burnley until June 2024.
He helped Burnley secure promotion back to the Premier League as champions, but his side were relegated after a season back in the top flight.
In May 2024, it was announced that Johann would leave Burnley following the expiration of his contract.
Kompany left Burnley for Bayern Munich.
Then in July 2024, following Scott Parker’s appointment as new Burnley manager, Johann signed a new one-year deal to remain with the club going into the 2024–25 season.
The Iceman returns!
Johann Berg Gudmundsson has rejoined the Club to sign a new one-year deal 🙌
— Burnley FC (@BurnleyOfficial) July 6, 2024
Speaking on his first day back at the training ground having rejoined, Gudmundsson told Clarets+ he feels like he’s back home again: “Yes! I’m back and I’m extremely happy! This club means so much to me.”
“Leaving the club in the situation it was, getting relegated, was difficult. I didn’t want to leave. I wanted to help get us back into the Premier League where we belong.”
“I knew my football career was definitely not over.”
The 33 year old midfielder admitted a chance meeting on a plane with Burnley’s chairman helped open the door to his return: “I was on the same flight from Amsterdam as Alan Pace and we had a good conversation about the club and what we could do to get it back in to the Premier League where it belongs, and here I am, signing again as a Burnley player.”
“I’ve also spoken with the new manager and I just want to help this team to get back to the Premier League.”
“It’s going to be hard. The Championship is extremely hard. But the talent we have in this squad, the experience we have in this squad we can look at this season in a positive way.
“We know we’ve got to work hard. It’s not enough to have talent in this league. You have to work hard every day, every game, and that’s why I’m here to make sure that’s what we’re going to do.”
As we saw, Vincent Kompany doesn’t hold back in an astonishing scene in the Burnley documentary, fuming with Gudmundsson, this is how fans reacted…
@francescalynn23: A bollocking I have no issue with. However, to belittle and insult someone, especially in front of everyone else? Awful.
@FixingFootball: What a massive arsehole he is! Burnley may have gone the long way round with it. But the best thing for them is that he’s gone! Toxic
@ClaretNick: Heard from multiple people that Kompany created a toxic environment in the club. As much as 22/23 was the best season ever, part of me has wondered for a while if VK just got lucky. I think he mishandled Benny, Trafford, Cork, Zaroury, Muric, Taylor, and going by this, JBG.
@bjacobs14: This is horrific management! There’s a way to berate players and this is absolutely not it!
@Hillionaire23: he’s going to struggle with the big personalities at Bayern isn’t he
@Hairy_biker1: Classic bully behaviour. He wouldn’t have done that to someone his size. In all the years I’ve been watching JBG I can’t say I’ve ever seen his body language be off or questioned his attitude.
@PantherCraig: You should never speak to someone like that in front of their colleagues, totally unacceptable and unprofessional
@hackabusi: Giving it big licks for camera. Lack of respect for jbg with that rant. That’s not management personally. Not in front of everyone
@qprjohn11: Try that at Bayern he won’t be there long, what a strange bloke 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@mrliamcello: You can achieve great success without being a narcissistic performative bullying knobhead. Your players hate you pal, no surprise Burnley got relegated under an idiot like that. Liam.
@OrmerodMatty: Its either great editing by Sky or pure irony that the clip is opened with him talking about controlling your emotions and then a clip is shown about him losing control of his emotions, can’t imagine it was the first and last time he did it either.
@Mclaughlin7937: Mate could you be arsed with someone screaming like that at you for the sake of it. Forgets that he missed more games than he played. Ego of Pep with a record of Steve Kean
@JakeJones_94: Seen a similar clip when he outs someone at Anderlecht in front of everyone after a game, talks about control but has no control over his own emotions, embarrassing 🙈
@rushy_sport: Very glad I voiced wanting Kompany out so frequently last season now. Knew he’d lost the plot, but even I didn’t see him doing that to our senior player who cares so much about the club
@joeskinner13: This just confirms my thoughts. Ego and arrogance off the scale.
@R1130_: As well an absolute fraud it appears Kompany is a first class helmet too. Be some laugh him trying this with the Bayern team, half of which have basically won it all already
@GJHeidler: The shouting and swearing isn’t even what’s bad (tho NEVER for me). It’s that he’s wrong. For a team that didn’t score many goals, Guðmundsson wanting to finish attacks shows great attitude. He stands up and questions his coach calmly, all great personality and attitude traits.
@amywiseman22: Of all players to go at about attitude, JBG would be the last in our squad. He knows what it is to be Burnley through and through, and to belittle him like that is a disgrace. Clearly lost his head.
@LaFocaFachera: My thoughts are that VK is a FUCKING piece of shit that puts the blame in others as he is too arrogant to assume his own mistakes and try to improve a little bit from them, I couldnt be more glad that he´s gone. Johanns attitude here is remarkable. Love him. #twitterclarets #UTC
@MrShot7: Kompany is a bellend
@AndyHa_: Get a camera crew to Bayern this season. We need footage of him yelling nonsense at players who have won the Champions League, whilst they walk off laughing at him
@sagres23: What a prick
@Patr1ckKey: what an awful coaching approach from a clearly frustrated manager who got comfy winning the champ with an unfairly good team
As much as I’m sure this sort of thing happens between players and coaches more often than any of us realise as supporters; it’s really not a good look for Vincent Kompany. You wouldn’t think it would go down well with the players at Bayern either. https://t.co/GISHPpc6dD
— HLTCO (@HLTCO) August 12, 2024
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