Burnley boss Vincent Kompany looks destined for relegation less than a year since being heavily touted for the Tottenham Hotspur job.
Tottenham fans are mostly enjoying life under Ange Postecoglou.
Spurs are finally playing attacking football once again and whilst Tottenham are not the finished product, few would want to see Postecoglou leave any time soon.
The move to bring Postecoglou from Celtic has produced encouraging results but Spurs did look at appointing other managers.
One of them was Vincent Kompany, but the Burnley manager now finds himself in danger of dropping out of the Premier League…
Vincent Kompany struggling after Tottenham links
When Antonio Conte left Tottenham, we saw plenty of rumours surrounding a potential move for Kompany.
The Belgian guided Burnley to promotion from the Championship last season, playing superb football throughout.
Reports indicated that Tottenham saw Kompany as another Mikel Arteta, believing that he could change the club just like Arteta has at Arsenal.
Kompany instead signed a new contract at Burnley, committing his future to the Clarets and leaving Spurs to look elsewhere.
In came Postecoglou, but Kompany’s season with Burnley hasn’t really gone to plan.
Many thought that Burnley would take the momentum from a superb campaign last season and comfortably achieve survival.
Instead, Burnley have struggled badly and Sunday’s 2-0 defeat to Bournemouth leaves them in a perilous position.
Burnley sit 11 points adrift of safety with just 11 games to play, with a hefty points deduction for Nottingham Forest seemingly their only realistic hope.
It’s now four defeats in a row and seven in the last nine games, whilst Kompany’s side have leaked 60 goals and scored just 25 this season.
Burnley would need a pretty remarkable turnaround to stay up at this point, having won just three times in 27 games this season.
This isn’t to say that Kompany is being exposed as a manager, but it’s difficult to imagine him being linked with a job like Tottenham again for the foreseeable future.
We do think Burnley should stick with Kompany; he has a very young team and backing him to improve them over the time would be a sensible move.
Sacking Kompany and replacing him with somebody to try and push for survival would mean ripping up a project Burnley have built carefully over the last 18 months.
Stick with Kompany, regroup in the Championship and who knows, maybe the Belgian will indeed become a hot property once again.
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