Vincent Kompany isn’t Bayern’s first choice - but he may be the right one

Vincent Kompany is a bold move from Bayern Munich, but the young head coach could be exactly what the faltering German giants need right now.

It reportedly took Vincent Kompany just five minutes to say yes to Bayern Munich. After a gruelling Premier League season that had seen his Burnley side pick up just five wins from 38 games and succumb to relegation almost as quickly as they had won promotion the season before, the former Belgium international must have surely thought the phone call was some kind of sick joke. Why would the biggest club in Germany want to hire a manager that had just failed to keep Burnley in the English top-flight?

The obvious answer is that they didn’t. At least not at first. Depending on what reports are to be believed, Kompany is the Munich side’s fourth, fifth or sixth choice to coach Bayern next season. The former German champions are unquestionably stuck between a rock and a hard place. Desperation has set in. They’re all out of options. So they’ve now had to act fast and it would seem as though they’ve finally found someone to take the job. But why Kompany?

Having left German football over 15 years ago, following a brief spell at HSV, Kompany is hardly a household name in the Bundesliga or a young head coach that has rubbed shoulders with the decision makers at Säbener Straße. He’s an outsider and, most worrying of all, a relatively unknown quantity. But there may in fact be some method to this madness and it could prove to be a rather shrewd move from Bayern in the end.