The Bundesliga giants had been searching for a new manager since agreeing to part ways with Thomas Tuchel at the end of the 2023/24 season in February. Despite being linked with former managers Julian Nagelsmann and Hansi Flick, as well as Ralf Rangnick, Bayern failed to reach agreements with any of them. Talks of potentially retaining Tuchel were dismissed by club chiefs.

After considering other options like Erik ten Hag, Thomas Frank, and Roberto De Zerbi, Bayern settled on Burnley boss Kompany.

In his statement to Bayern channels, Kompany expressed his excitement for the challenge, calling it a great honor to work for the club. He emphasized his coaching philosophy, highlighting the importance of creativity, aggression, and courage on the pitch. Kompany also expressed eagerness to work with the players and build a successful team.

Vincent Kompany is the new head coach of FC Bayern, putting pen to paper on a deal until 2027 🔴⚪#MiaSanMia pic.twitter.com/XHQs4mmOUw

— FC Bayern Munich (@FCBayernEN) May 29, 2024

Kompany said: “I’m looking forward to the challenge of FC Bayern. It’s a great honour to be able to work for this club – FC Bayern is an institution in international football. As a coach, you have to stand for who you are as a person: I love having the ball, being creative – and we also have to be aggressive on the pitch and courageous. I’m now looking forward to the most basic things: working with the players, building a team. When the foundation is in place, success will follow.”

Max Eberl: “We are delighted that we have signed Vincent Kompany for FC Bayern. In our talks with him, we were immediately on the same page. He made it clear to us how much the job at FC Bayern appeals to him and that he absolutely wants to take it on. Vincent Kompany is hungry and has everything he needs: Even as a player, he was a leading figure in top international football and is also making progress as a coach. We would like to see more continuity in this position. Together with him, we want to achieve a lot at FC Bayern – and of course be successful together.”

Kompany led Burnley to the Championship title in 2022/23 with attractive possession football. However, his young side struggled in the Premier League, resulting in relegation back to the second tier.

Prior to managing Burnley, Kompany spent time in charge of Anderlecht, both as a manager and player-coach. With a win percentage of 43.23%, he has overseen 83 wins, 58 draws, and 51 losses across 192 games in management.

Kompany faces a significant task at Bayern, as they finished third in the Bundesliga in the 2023/24 season behind Bayer Leverkusen and Stuttgart.

🗣️ Vincent Kompany: “I’m looking forward to the challenge of FC Bayern. It’s a great honour to be able to work for this club – FC Bayern is an institution in international football.”

🔗 https://t.co/pnLojm8U95#MiaSanMia pic.twitter.com/BSzOLAAHAV

— FC Bayern Munich (@FCBayernEN) May 29, 2024

3️⃣ questions with our new head coach, Vincent Kompany 👋📽️#MiaSanMia pic.twitter.com/sN54Lxlmh9

— FC Bayern Munich (@FCBayernEN) May 29, 2024

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According to reports, PSG have sacked head coach Christophe Galtier, with Julian Nagelsmann set to be drafted in as his replacement.

PSG football adviser Luis Campos informed Garthier of the club’s decision on Tuesday morning, according to Le Parisien, after which a formal announcement would be made. Gaultier remained in the spotlight at the Parc des Princes for just one season despite winning the Ligue 1 title in 2022/23 before losing to Bayern Munich in the round of 16 of the Champions League. After that, it was severely criticized.

Galtier became PSG’s seventh permanent manager after signing a two-year deal last summer since Qatar took over in 2011. Under the Frenchman, the French giants managed to defend their Ligue 1 title, finishing one point behind runners-up Reims. But he suffered setbacks on the European stage, struggling to get the most out of superstar names like Lionel Messi and Neymar.

Gaultier also faced accusations of racism stemming from his time as Nice manager in April and gradually lost the credibility of the club’s leadership after PSG ended their final season on a whim.

Former Bayern Munich coach Nagelsmann is the favourite to fill Galtier’s shoes in the Parc des Princes training park, with Foot Mercato reporting that the German is in advanced talks with PSG officials.

Nagelsmann, who has been out of work since being ruthlessly sacked by Bayern in March, could be joined by Arsenal legend Thierry Henry. The Qatar properties see Henry as the perfect candidate for the role of Nagelsmann’s assistant as he previously held the same position alongside Roberto Martinez in the Belgian national team.

Galtier isn’t the only one to make it past the Parc des Princes exits this summer. PSG have also confirmed Messi’s departure, with the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner eyeing a return to Barcelona as a free agent.

He has also been closely linked with moves to Saudi Arabia and the MLS but has yet to announce where he will play next season. Sergio Ramos is also leaving when his contract expires at the end of the month, and Neymar is said to be pushing for a move after being targeted by PSG extremists outside his home.

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As Chelsea gets closer to hiring Mauricio Pochettino as their next manager, Frank Lampard has endorsed their choice to look at all possible candidates.

Chelsea’s hiring staff evaluated a number of candidates, including Julian Nagelsmann and Luis Enrique, after Graham Potter was fired last month.

But Pochettino, the former manager of Tottenham, is now anticipated to take over at Stamford Bridge after Lampard’s interim tenure is over. Pochettino has been unemployed since he was fired by Paris Saint-Germain last summer.

Chelsea had thought about replacing Potter immediately with a permanent successor, but Lampard thinks he knows why the team’s next manager will prefer to wait until the end of the current campaign.

‘Do they [Chelsea] need to take their time to get the right manager? Yeah, they absolutely should do,’ Lampard said.

‘We are at that stage of the season now where we understand that we are not going to get into Europe, and other managers are probably going, ‘I’ll take a look at this and wait till pre-season when I can enforce what I want to do’.

‘It’s not silly on their part, we’ve got the top four in the run-in and that is going to be a difficult process of games.’

Lampard also believes Chelsea need to abandon their previous strategy of frequently changing managers in order to build long-term success.

‘I don’t think there is always an obvious method but I do think that if you are trying to work for something, you look at the successful models at the top end of the league at the minute and you see managers that have been working there a long time,’ Lampard said.

‘Recruitment is aligned with the type of squad and identity they want to bring and it works in a direction.

‘You see City, Liverpool and Arsenal [have success with long-term managers]. So, clearly, if you want to get there it’s something that hopefully aligns. At the moment for us it hasn’t. We have to find a way that it does.

‘I was always part of the Chelsea team that changed managers regularly. With casual hindsight it is easy to say I had great success. I won three [league] titles but I should have won five or six. That’s my feeling.

‘We might have won more titles if we’d had more consistency and been able to work in one direction. And I feel like we should have done.’

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According to reports, Chelsea and Mauricio Pochettino’s agents have reached an agreement in principle for the Argentine to serve as their next head coach.

The Blues have been interviewing potential candidates as they look for Graham Potter’s long-term replacement for the last month.

Former Barcelona manager Luis Enrique and former Bayern Munich manager Julian Nagelsmann were the first managers Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital met with about the role.

After an early round of negotiations, Chelsea distanced themselves from Enrique, and Nagelsmann withdrew from consideration last week.

While Luciano Spalletti of Napoli, Ruben Amorim of Sporting CP, and Vincent Kompany of Burnley were all praised, Pochettino emerged as Chelsea’s new top choice, and the two sides have been engaged in discussions over the past several days.

According to reports, a contract has been made in principle for Pochettino to lead Chelsea, and the specifics of the arrangement are now being worked out.

The Argentine is attempting to relocate his four regular coaches to west London: assistants Jesus Perez and Miguel D’Agostino, goalkeeping coach Toni Jimenez, and his sports scientist son Sebastiano Pochettino. These negotiations are still in progress.

According to a February story, Pochettino rejected a Chelsea offer in part because Potter was still in charge and was still more than a month away from losing his job.

Pochettino has been jobless since parting ways with Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the previous campaign. Although he had shown interest in rejoining old team Tottenham, the north London club never made an approach, which allowed rivals Chelsea to pounce.

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Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernandez has reportedly informed the club that he wants former River Plate boss Marcelo Gallardo to take over permanently.

They both worked at River and once Fernandez graduated from their academy, Gallardo gave him his first team start there in 2019.

According to UOL, the 22-year-old still views his former coach as a “father figure” and would be happy to meet him again, apparently giving Chelsea “the go-ahead” to make their move.

Even further, the Brazilian site claims that Gallardo is “near” to being appointed.

The 47-year-old has not held a managerial position since leaving River in November, but rumours out of Argentina indicate that he is eager to return and is optimistic about being hired by Chelsea.

Since leaving River, Gallardo is rumoured to have started learning English, and he is eager to test his skills against those of the Premier League.

Of course, it will be the Chelsea hierarchy, not Gallardo or Fernandez, who will make that choice.

Given that Graham Potter was dismissed from his duties owing to his relative inexperience at the top level, the nomination of the Argentine tactician would undoubtedly be a surprise. Early frontrunners for the position include high-calibre names like Julian Nagelsmann and Luis Enrique.

The latter is rumoured to have spoken with Chelsea representatives in person last week.

However, Todd Boehly and the company appointed Frank Lampard on an interim basis precisely to give them time to explore their choices, thus Gallardo’s name will probably still be on the list.

In the meanwhile, Fernandez and co have a Champions League quarter-final to attend, as they travel to holders Real Madrid in Wednesday’s first leg.

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Frank Lampard is pleased to be returning to “my club,” claiming it was an “easy decision” to accept an interim position.

After Graham Potter was sacked, the Blues icon made a third return visit to Stamford Bridge and served as manager for a second time. The former midfielder, who lived in west London for 13 years while playing, has agreed to serve as interim manager of Premier League heavyweights till the end of the 2022–23 season.

Lampard, who was relieved of his duties by Chelsea back in Chelsea 2021, has said of finding himself back in familiar surroundings: “Easy decision for me, this is my club. I’m also a very practical person. I’ve been on a different path since I left Chelsea but to come back when I’ve been asked and come back with a belief I can help until the end of the season. Delighted to get the opportunity and I’m thankful. I’ve a good understanding of the squad, the training ground, the stadium and the fans and I’ll do my best.”

The likes of Julian Nagelsmann and Luis Enrique have been linked with a permanent role at Chelsea, along with former bosses Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte, and Lampard is reluctant to speculate on whether he could put himself in the frame.

He added when asked about his future, having been a star on the field for the Blues when Champions League glory in 2012 secured interim boss Roberto Di Matteo a full-time contract: “Roberto did an incredible job to stay on but that’s a different time in the club’s history. I expect those questions but what is important to me is to park it to one side and get on with the job. I was at the game on Tuesday, there’s a lot of a talent in the squad and I’m excited to work with them.”

As the Blues prepare to go to Wolves on Saturday, Lampard says his immediate goals are to “install the highest confidence” and “win as many games as we can.” the Blues currently sat 11th in the Premier League table heading towards a trip to Wolves on Saturday.

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Frank Lampard has made a surprising comeback to Chelsea, with the club appointing him as interim manager following Graham Potter’s dismissal.

The 44-year-old, who played for 13 years in west London, has reacted to an SOS from his former employers after they were forced to look for a new manager once more.

Potter was sacked after just 31 games as manager, and despite having close relationships with players like Luis Enrique and Julian Nagelsmann, no permanent replacement has been named before the conclusion of the 2022–23 season.

It has offered Lampard the chance to take full control once more, nearly two years after the Blues gave him his own marching orders.

The former England player was sacked by Everton in January of this year after serving as manager at Goodison Park for a year after leaving a significant Premier League position in January 2021 with 44 victories from 84 games in charge.

Co-owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali told the club’s official website: “We are delighted to welcome Frank back to Stamford Bridge. Frank is a Premier League Hall of Famer and a legend at this club. As we continue our thorough and exhaustive process for a permanent head coach, we want to provide the club and our fans with a clear and stable plan for the remainder of the season.

“We want to give ourselves every chance of success and Frank has all of the characteristics and qualities we need to drive us to the finish line. We have an important game against Wolves on Saturday and then we will turn our attention to our Champions League quarter-final in Madrid next week. We are all going to give Frank our full backing as we aim to get the best possible outcome from all our remaining games.”

According to multiple sources, including Sportsmail, the former midfielder allegedly arrived back in Cobham on Thursday to partake in his first training with his new team.

Together with Joe Edwards and Paul Clement, who have previously lived in west London, he will be joined by fellow Blues icon Ashley Cole.

Frank Lampard returns as Caretaker Manager until the end of the season. 🤝

— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) April 6, 2023

Lampard’s appointment means N’Golo Kante will play under four different managers (Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter, Bruno Saltor and Lampard) in five consecutive matches, due to his long-term injury which saw him out of action between August and March.

Lampard takes over as manager of a team that has received £600 million ($748 million) in investment over the course of the previous two transfer windows as Chelsea sits 11th in the Premier League rankings.

In his first game back, the Blues will travel to Wolves on Saturday. The first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal matchup with Real Madrid will take place at Santiago Bernabeu the following Wednesday.

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According to reports, Frank Lampard has agreed to take over as Chelsea interim manager till the end of the current season. The terms are still being worked out.

The renowned player and manager for Chelsea made 648 appearances and 211 goals during his illustrious career at Stamford Bridge.

In his last brief stint as first-team manager, Lampard also had some success, winning 52.4% of his matches while in charge of a young Chelsea squad.

With Graham Potter’s dismissal on Sunday, the Blues will now temporarily rely on Lampard again.

The finer details, according to reports, are still being worked out before the legendary player takes over as caretaker coach for the rest of the season.

According to sources, Bruno Saltor’s refusal to stay on as interim coach drove the decision to look for a replacement. As revealed earlier on Wednesday, Bruno is eager to remain faithful to Potter, who granted him his coaching debut in 2019 after his playing career ended.

Lampard’s willingness to return to the team where he played for 13 years has been essential to the success of discussions.

Sources claim that although Lampard accepted an interim job, he still views himself as a manager and would be eager to secure a permanent position, but is more than glad to assist the Blues for the time being.

Although Lampard will likely be appointed interim manager, the report claimed on Wednesday that former Barcelona and Spain coach Luis Enrique had travelled to London with his agency to discuss a permanent managerial position with Chelsea.

The club has also made it known that they will be meeting with Julian Nagelsmann later this week.

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Thomas Tuchel, the manager of Bayern Munich, criticized Jamal Musiala for taking a “crazy gamble” in their DFB-Pokal match that cost Freiburg the winning penalty.

Dayout Upamecano’s first-half goal was cancelled out by Nicolas Hofler’s goal, but Bayern Munich has been eliminated from the cup competition thanks to a stoppage-time winner from Lucas Holer.

After replacing Julian Nagelsmann as the head coach of the Bavarians, Tuchel suffered his first defeat.

In the 93rd minute, with the score still level at 1-1, Musiala handled the ball within his area, and Holer converted the resulting penalty kick with ease. After the game, Tuchel vented his anger over the 20-year-old’s careless error.

“Nowadays you can’t jump in like that in the sixteen. You just can’t do that. You’re taking a crazy risk,” the Bayern coach said to Sky Sports.

Tuchel was livid not only with Musiala but also with his other defenders as they failed to clear their lines at such a crucial juncture. “We lost two headers before that in the box, in the last minute. You have to put your body in there, be more stable, be tougher. Two header duels, a first ball, second ball, third ball – that’s too much in the box in the last Minute. It’s easy,” he added.

Bayern will turn their focus back to the Bundesliga after a discouraging setback in the DFB-Pokal on Saturday when they take on Freiburg once more. They will then travel to England to play Manchester City in the opening leg of their Champions League quarterfinal matchup after that game.

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Gary Neville believes Graham Potter would be happy to leave Chelsea and claims that ex-Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is the man to replace him.

Less than seven months after taking over at Stamford Bridge, Potter was fired on Sunday night. The team was 11th in the standings following a dismal home loss to Aston Villa.

The odds were never in the English manager’s favour as he battled to gain the fans’ respect, win over his players, and work with the club’s new ownership, who were implementing dramatic and extensive changes behind the scenes.

Just 12 victories in 31 games was a poor record on the field, but Neville believes that Potter will be happy to have left a club in disarray since that is where the real damage appears to have been done.

The Manchester United legend told Sky Sports: ‘Graham Potter is a good man. He’ll have gone home after he was sacked and I bet there was an element of relief.

‘I don’t think he was enjoying it there, I bet he will have thought it was mad.

‘What he has been used to in terms of what his view of football is, he will have seen what is going on behind the scenes – they lost Petr Cech and Marina Granovskaia at the start of the season, that wasn’t planned.

‘They lost [Thomas] Tuchel, that wasn’t planned. He has come into a club that is in massive transition, they [Todd Boehly and co.] have paid millions of pounds, they don’t know what they are doing to be fair, they are learning on the job.

‘He’ll probably think, “These lot are mad”, and actually I suspect that Graham Potter has gone to Winstanley and said, “Get me out of here”.’

Now the question of who will succeed Potter is in focus. The early front-runner is ex-Bayern Munich manager Julian Nagelsmann, while Pochettino, ex-Barcelona manager Luis Enrique, and Napoli’s Luciano Spalletti are all on the extremely lengthy shortlist.

Neville believes that Pochettino, who has been unemployed since leaving PSG last summer, is the ideal candidate for the position since the Argentinean won’t be careless when it comes to making fresh player signings.

He added: ‘Everything Chelsea is saying and Boehly is saying is that they have spent £600million and they have done their spending apart from a centre-forward for the next three years.

‘If they sign [Zinedine] Zidane, [Diego] Simeone, Enrique, they are going to want another £300m because they won’t like some of the players they have signed.

‘They have got to appoint a manager that is going to inherit and like the squad they have already got. I think that man, because a lot of them are young, is Pochettino.’

For the time being, Bruno Saltor will lead Chelsea against Liverpool on Tuesday night.

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After a reported falling out with former manager Julian Nagelsmann, Thomas Tuchel has urged Sadio Mane to prove his value at Bayern Munich.

The Senegal international allegedly challenged Nagelsmann over his reduced role before the German was ousted by Bayern, having only seen eight minutes of play against Paris Saint-Germain in the second leg of their round-of-16 Champions League tie.

Former Chelsea manager Tuchel was appointed as Nagelsmann’s replacement during the international break, and he expects Mane to regain the form that propelled him to prominence as one of Europe’s best attackers at Liverpool.

“He scored 20, 30 goals every year for Liverpool and was an absolute key player there. His quality is beyond any doubt,” Tuchel told reporters. “Even at his age, it always takes time to acclimate after a change of clubs. That can take time. There’s no doubt about his quality and what it can bring us. It’s about trust and patience so he can get back into the rhythm. A goal usually helps the confidence.”

In the last 20 minutes of their Der Klassiker triumph over Borussia Dortmund over the weekend, Tuchel substituted Mane off the bench. He immediately appeared energized as Bayern finished the game with a 4-2 victory to reclaim first place in the Bundesliga.

The forward has failed to re-establish himself as a starter since his comeback in February due to a leg injury that has forced him to miss significant amounts of the season. He underwent surgery to treat the ailment.

He will, though, be aiming to make a good impression on Tuchel in training so that he is given a bigger part in the crucial portion of the season.

Mane is expected to start for Bayern against Freiburg on Tuesday in the DFB-Pokal quarterfinals.

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Thomas Tuchel has acknowledged that because he no longer is familiar with life at Stamford Bridge, he would be unable to provide Julian Nagelsmann with any advice about going to Chelsea.

Under the former owner Roman Abramovich, Tuchel rose to prominence at Chelsea, but the new Todd Boehly–Clearlake Capital ownership decided to replace him with Graham Potter and gave him his marching orders early in the current season.

Six months later and Potter has been given the boot as well – just over a week after Tuchel himself returned to work with Bayern Munich.

Chelsea’s interest in Julian Nagelsmann, who Tuchel succeeded at Munich has emerged as the early favourite to fill the vacant Stamford Bridge position, has set off something of a managerial merry-go-round.

Asked whether he would advise Nagelsmann to move to Chelsea, Tuchel said: “I saw the news [of Potter’s exit] late last night. It’s awful timing as it coincided with my appointment here.

“It took me a while to distance myself from Chelsea. I really enjoyed working there and formed friendships for life. But the club has changed a lot, which has made it easier to distance myself, so it didn’t really trigger big emotions in me.

“I could not give advice [to Nagelsmann] because the club has changed.”

Given that Bayern Munich is close to finalizing a deal that would see the Chelsea coach reconnect with Tuchel, Anthony Barry may soon follow Potter out the exit door.

Chelsea is now looking for a new manager and is said to be interested in Luis Enrique, Mauricio Pochettino, and Ruben Amorim in addition to Nagelsmann.

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