Scottish Daily Mail

Kompany in frame for Burnley if they stay up

- JACK GAUGHAN

VINCENT KOMPANY is a frontrunne­r to take over at Burnley if they retain their Premier League status tomorrow. The Clarets will avoid the drop by matching Leeds’ result when Newcastle go to Turf Moor on the final day. Chairman Alan Pace is set to accelerate the club’s efforts to finalise Sean Dyche’s permanent successor next week — and Kompany is considered a strong possibilit­y. The 36-year-old has been managing boyhood club Anderlecht since leaving Manchester City in 2019, guiding them to third in the Belgian top flight this term. Kompany has remained tight-lipped on his future in recent weeks but is understood to be interested in the prospect of a move back to the North West. Burnley would need to offer Kompany guarantees over the club’s recruitmen­t structure were he to agree a deal ahead of a crucial summer transfer window. Any new manager would want to further decrease the average age of the squad in a bid to become more competitiv­e. The landscape changes massively if they go down, however, with Burnley then facing a ‘significan­t’ repayment of a £65million loan used to facilitate last year’s takeover by ALK Capital. Burnley believe they will be robust enough to cope but the figures represent an uncertain immediate future if they go down.

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Top target: Kompany

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