Vincent Kompany - 2018/19 Performances

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7evens said:
You're right, it's not a good idea to let him rot in the reserves. Has everyone deliberately misread my original post? I said we can't let him rot in the reserves because he's still more than good enough to contribute to the first team in his own way. That pretty clearly makes the point that I don't want him to rot in the reserves. Both you and Karen have jumped on that minor footnote in a much wider point and completely misinterpreted it in your subsequent posts.

There's a lot of talk as though only playing Kompany for 5-10 games in the league is a bad idea, but that's the strategy we've taken both this season and last season. He didn't even play in the 0-0 against Huddersfield but he still came out to lift the trophy. In fact, Pep even said this time last year that we'd use him specifically for this purpose ("We have to wait for Vincent to lift the titles"). We brought him back for the League Cup final, the home stretch, and the United game towards the end of last season, we brought him back for the Liverpool game earlier this month. I imagine the next month will be spent with him in rehab attempting to get him fit for the League Cup final again. It's how we should deploy him.

He's the club captain and deserves to continue to be, and the club captain should get to lift the trophies at the end of the season - should we win any. One of the biggest criticisms I've seen repeated this week is that this side lacks leadership without him and that you couldn't pick an obvious candidate to take over as captain should he leave - and it's highly unlikely that we'll name a new signing as the club captain in the summer, so I think a two-year extension with him as fourth choice CB is a perfectly reasonable conclusion to come to. Kompany won't meekly retire for a number of reasons and we can't sell him to another club for a number of reasons, so offering him a reduced role but with perks like appearing in big games and lifting the trophies we win seems like a decent compromise.

I don't want him to rot in the reserves.
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Read my post again fella; where did I say it was your scenario re. him rotting in the reserves? I agree; we shouldn't let him rot in the reserves.
 
Vinny may have lost a yard of pace , but we need his leadership qualities for the run-in , even if he is only coming off the bench he is vital for the rest of this season , his experience is immeasurable , he's got three Premier league medals under his belt and knows the drill , the Dippers have nothing like that , we need him fit and available and the sooner the better.
 
Hope he plays some more important matches tin the future like ths Pool match. Although Pep hasn't been overly positive about his health, we need him for crunch time. That's for sure.
 
Respect to Kompany on the wage cut news if true. Although he’ll still be earning a mint, it’s the fact he’ll take a wage cut for the club rather than the amount. Not enough players like him in football clubs.
 
I guess if they're thinking about Garcia that means no new contract for Mangala.... ;-)
 
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