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EXCLUSIVE: City don't have a problem with player discipline - Kompany
Published 22:30 20/10/11 By Oliver Holt
Vincent Kompany listens to the question and a smile starts to spread slowly across his face.
He hears the question out. Hears the stuff about how his Manchester City teammates are a rabble of unmanageable egomaniacs, a loose coalition of the greedy and the damned.
Hears the accusation that, top of the table or not, ill-discipline runs amok among the Premier League’s northern stronghold of the nouveau riche.
Hears the theory that, as City prepare to take on Manchester United in Sunday’s mouth-watering top of the table clash, it has become impossibly hard for a manager like Roberto Mancini to exert authority over a band of selfish millionaires.
And that it was never like this back in the late 1960s when Mike Summerbee and Colin Bell were playing and Joe Mercer was the club’s revered boss.
The Manchester City captain is still smiling when he begins his reply.
Maybe it’s because he’s got a good answer.
“I just happened to see a movie about Leeds called The Damned United recently,” Kompany said. “It didn’t seem to be easier for Cloughie back in the day, as far as I could make out.
“You’re talking about 40 years ago. That movie’s the only experience of English football from that era that I’ve got. It tells me Brian Clough’s team became unmanageable because his players didn’t want to play for him.
“Things evolve, things change but in the end if you look at the best teams and the best players, there is always a problem somewhere because there are a lot of players to manage.
“It is not easy, regardless of the salaries they may be earning. Even in the lower leagues, it can happen. It is not easy to manage a group of players that are between 18 and 32 years old. There is a lot of testosterone.
“These days, everything is much more under the microscope. Everything is noticed and everything needs to be discussed and everything needs to be addressed.
“It was fine back in the day to go out on the day before a big game. Nobody would speak about it or notice it whereas now people make their own judgments about those kinds of things. These are different times.”
City go into Sunday’s eagerly awaited showdown with United buoyed by their form but still troubled by the fall-out from the Carlos Tevez Affair.
Public opinion has remained steadfastly behind Mancini in the aftermath of Tevez’s failure to come on as a substitute in City’s Champions League tie against Bayern Munich three weeks ago.
The furore over Tevez and the petulant reaction of Edin Dzeko to being substituted that same night in the Allianz Arena seemed to indicate a lack of respect for Mancini’s authority.
“A problem with discipline?” said Kompany, 25. “No chance. We are a good club. We have got strong personalities but nine times out of 10, strong personalities do exactly what is right for the team.
“I have always felt that England is the country where you most respect people who speak their mind. That way, there are no grey areas. There is not a lot left for assumption.
“We have got a lot of strong characters who speak their mind and in moments when we have been confronted with bad results, that quality has always pulled us back out of it.
“We have always been very strong after difficult moments. That is what happened after Bayern Munich. We went to Blackburn and got a very good result.
“People are taking aim at us, but because of where we are in the table, because of the way we have been playing, they can only shoot blank bullets.”
Kompany is a fine choice as City skipper, someone who is respected as one of the best defenders in the league, who leads by example on the pitch and takes his responsibilities seriously off it.
Eloquent and sharp, he often stays behind for hours after training, chatting with staff and giving advice to youth team players, involving himself in every aspect of the club.
He speaks his mind in the dressing room, too.
Even a man as forthright as Craig Bellamy admired the way Kompany conducted himself when both men were at the club.
And as Mancini leads City towards derby day, the Belgium international is happy to defend his manager against accusations his dictatorial style is upsetting too many star players.
“It is easy for me to talk about Mancini,” Kompany says. “Just look at our results. He is someone who focuses on small details. He is a perfectionist. That is one of the details we have in common.
“He always wants it to be better. Even when you win, he will look back at the performance and think we could have done it better.
“People talk about Mancini’s style but I would just say there are managers with so many different styles who have been successful over the years.
“No one can tell me that Mourinho is the same style as Ferguson but that doesn’t make one of them a lesser manager. We can argue about styles but in the end the results speak for themselves.
“The reality is that City didn’t win anything for 34 years and that is gone now.
"The reality is that we finished joint second with Chelsea last season, we had the best defence in the league and now we are in the Champions League.
"We are going places, you know.”
Like everyone at the club, Kompany is circumspect when the conversation turns to Tevez but even on that vexed topic, he finds humour.
“The only way I am going to try to give you an answer about Carlos,” he says, “is to say that I have been at the club for three and a half years and it has certainly not been uninteresting.
“A lot has happened. You get immune to certain events.
"No matter how much the outside world comments and discusses something, we just get on with the job and move forward.”
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EXCLUSIVE: City don't have a problem with player discipline - Kompany
Published 22:30 20/10/11 By Oliver Holt
Vincent Kompany listens to the question and a smile starts to spread slowly across his face.
He hears the question out. Hears the stuff about how his Manchester City teammates are a rabble of unmanageable egomaniacs, a loose coalition of the greedy and the damned.
Hears the accusation that, top of the table or not, ill-discipline runs amok among the Premier League’s northern stronghold of the nouveau riche.
Hears the theory that, as City prepare to take on Manchester United in Sunday’s mouth-watering top of the table clash, it has become impossibly hard for a manager like Roberto Mancini to exert authority over a band of selfish millionaires.
And that it was never like this back in the late 1960s when Mike Summerbee and Colin Bell were playing and Joe Mercer was the club’s revered boss.
The Manchester City captain is still smiling when he begins his reply.
Maybe it’s because he’s got a good answer.
“I just happened to see a movie about Leeds called The Damned United recently,” Kompany said. “It didn’t seem to be easier for Cloughie back in the day, as far as I could make out.
“You’re talking about 40 years ago. That movie’s the only experience of English football from that era that I’ve got. It tells me Brian Clough’s team became unmanageable because his players didn’t want to play for him.
“Things evolve, things change but in the end if you look at the best teams and the best players, there is always a problem somewhere because there are a lot of players to manage.
“It is not easy, regardless of the salaries they may be earning. Even in the lower leagues, it can happen. It is not easy to manage a group of players that are between 18 and 32 years old. There is a lot of testosterone.
“These days, everything is much more under the microscope. Everything is noticed and everything needs to be discussed and everything needs to be addressed.
“It was fine back in the day to go out on the day before a big game. Nobody would speak about it or notice it whereas now people make their own judgments about those kinds of things. These are different times.”
City go into Sunday’s eagerly awaited showdown with United buoyed by their form but still troubled by the fall-out from the Carlos Tevez Affair.
Public opinion has remained steadfastly behind Mancini in the aftermath of Tevez’s failure to come on as a substitute in City’s Champions League tie against Bayern Munich three weeks ago.
The furore over Tevez and the petulant reaction of Edin Dzeko to being substituted that same night in the Allianz Arena seemed to indicate a lack of respect for Mancini’s authority.
“A problem with discipline?” said Kompany, 25. “No chance. We are a good club. We have got strong personalities but nine times out of 10, strong personalities do exactly what is right for the team.
“I have always felt that England is the country where you most respect people who speak their mind. That way, there are no grey areas. There is not a lot left for assumption.
“We have got a lot of strong characters who speak their mind and in moments when we have been confronted with bad results, that quality has always pulled us back out of it.
“We have always been very strong after difficult moments. That is what happened after Bayern Munich. We went to Blackburn and got a very good result.
“People are taking aim at us, but because of where we are in the table, because of the way we have been playing, they can only shoot blank bullets.”
Kompany is a fine choice as City skipper, someone who is respected as one of the best defenders in the league, who leads by example on the pitch and takes his responsibilities seriously off it.
Eloquent and sharp, he often stays behind for hours after training, chatting with staff and giving advice to youth team players, involving himself in every aspect of the club.
He speaks his mind in the dressing room, too.
Even a man as forthright as Craig Bellamy admired the way Kompany conducted himself when both men were at the club.
And as Mancini leads City towards derby day, the Belgium international is happy to defend his manager against accusations his dictatorial style is upsetting too many star players.
“It is easy for me to talk about Mancini,” Kompany says. “Just look at our results. He is someone who focuses on small details. He is a perfectionist. That is one of the details we have in common.
“He always wants it to be better. Even when you win, he will look back at the performance and think we could have done it better.
“People talk about Mancini’s style but I would just say there are managers with so many different styles who have been successful over the years.
“No one can tell me that Mourinho is the same style as Ferguson but that doesn’t make one of them a lesser manager. We can argue about styles but in the end the results speak for themselves.
“The reality is that City didn’t win anything for 34 years and that is gone now.
"The reality is that we finished joint second with Chelsea last season, we had the best defence in the league and now we are in the Champions League.
"We are going places, you know.”
Like everyone at the club, Kompany is circumspect when the conversation turns to Tevez but even on that vexed topic, he finds humour.
“The only way I am going to try to give you an answer about Carlos,” he says, “is to say that I have been at the club for three and a half years and it has certainly not been uninteresting.
“A lot has happened. You get immune to certain events.
"No matter how much the outside world comments and discusses something, we just get on with the job and move forward.”
.