Vin’s Pep talk

CITY NOW PRIMED FOR TITLE SAYS KOM

LEADER: Kompany is on the hunt for more silverware VINCENT KOMPANY believes Manchester City have finally got to grips with winning the Premier League.

It is three years since the City skipper last lifted the Premier League trophy but he thinks that Pep Guardiola has got the winning message across to his troops.

Last season, the Spanish coach finished without a trophy for the first time in his glittering managerial career after sweeping the board with Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

After Guardiola’s £230million summer spend, Kompany is pumped up about putting that dismal record right.

Kompany said: “Am I excited? Yes. I think it’s because we don’t play the way we play by chance or by luck. We’ve worked really hard to get this way of building up, of controlling games, of strangling teams as well.

“We’ve put a lot of work into this and it’s the first time in my career I’ve been working so hard on a game plan – a plan to beat any team. Now we have a few new players to integrate but there’s less to teach. It feels more natural.

“And I just feel that nowadays in football you have to have a very clear idea of what you’re trying to achieve.

“But that’s why it’s the best league in the world.

“You go across the street at United and they probably feel the same way – and yet there is only one winner.”

Kompany has won the Premier League twice, an FA Cup and two League Cups in nine years at the club. And now the Belgian is determined to deliver more success.

He added: “The club has given me so much and I think I have given this club so much, too. There’s a relationship which is going to grow and go further.

“Once I finish playing I’m still a Manchester City player for the rest of my life.”

Vincent Kompany was speaking at the launch of The Tunnel Club – Manchester City’s new hospitality experience that wraps around the first glass players’ tunnel in world football. For more information,

visit www.mancity.com/thetunnelclub