{"id":1121728,"date":"2022-06-14T14:16:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/14\/burnley-appoint-vincent-kompany-as-new-manager\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T14:16:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:16:05","slug":"burnley-appoint-vincent-kompany-as-new-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/14\/burnley-appoint-vincent-kompany-as-new-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnley Appoint Vincent Kompany As New Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vincent Kompany<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Burnley have appointed former Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany as their manager.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian, 36, had been in charge at Anderlecht for two years before leaving by mutual consent in May, having led them to a third-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>The Clarets sacked Sean Dyche in April and replaced him with interim boss Mike Jackson, who was unable to prevent relegation from the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited by the challenge ahead,\u201d Kompany said following his appointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurnley Football Club is a truly historic English side and it is an honour to be appointed first-team manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been impressed by the board\u2019s vision for the club which aligns with my own and I look forward to playing my part as we enter an important season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Belgium international Kompany spent 11 years at City, where he won 10 major trophies \u2013 including four Premier League titles.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment comes amid Burnley\u2019s financial troubles. The Clarets had received a \u00a365m loan with American finance company MSD Holdings, a \u2018significant proportion\u2019 of which now has to be repaid after falling out of the top flight.<\/p>\n<p>The club have not specified the length of the deal that Kompany has signed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: BBC SPORTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Vincent Kompany Burnley have appointed former Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany as their manager. The Belgian, 36, had been in charge at Anderlecht for two years before leaving by mutual consent in May, having led them to a third-place finish. The Clarets sacked Sean Dyche in April and replaced him with interim boss Mike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1121730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2791,7691,17560,2316,15617],"class_list":["post-1121728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-appoint","tag-burnley","tag-kompany","tag-manager","tag-vincent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}