Kompany will begin his new career as player manager at Anderlecht (credits: telegraph)

Leaving Manchester City, Vincent Kompany becoming Anderlecht player-manager

In the middle of the domestic treble celebration, Manchester City captain, Vincent Kompany announced his team that he was quitting the club after 11 years services.

Kompany will begin his new career at the Belgian club, Anderlecht, as player manager on a three-year contract starting this summer. From a player to a manager is a fresh start for him.

Anderlecht was Kompany’s childhood club, where he had played from six-years-old to 20 before he transferred to Hamburg, said that he was born and raised at Anderlecht.

City’s manager Pep Guardiola and team tried to keep Kompany for next season, however, after deciding carefully, he chose the Anderlecht’s offer. The City’s captain thought that the offer for being a player-manager was too good to refuse on several levels.

He said that this was the right moment to bring an end to his magnificent career at the Manchester City. Kompany started his career with Manchester City in 2008 and won 10 trophies.

Kompany mentioned that Guardiola’s style of football was the one he wants to teach and to see played at Anderlecht .

“With that, I will also put a bit of Manchester in the heart of Belgium,” he said.

Kompany’s forthcoming quit will intensifying Guardiola’s will to recruit Ajax’s captain Matthijs de Ligt and Leicester’s centre back Harry Maguire.