Sean Dyche takes brutal dig at Burnley successor Vincent Kompany over Bayern job

Sean Dyche took a brutal swipe at his Burnley successor Vicent Kompany after he landed the Bayern Munich job despite spending over £100million more and being relegated with fewer points

Sean Dyche has taken a swipe at Vincent Kompany, questioning Bayern Munich‘s decision to hire him after he led Burnley to relegation last season.

Kompany had taken over from Dyche at Burnley and won the Championship in 2023. Dyche was let go by Burnley after nearly a decade in charge in 2022, but under interim manager Mike Jackson, the club couldn’t escape Premier League relegation.

The former Manchester City captain took over as Dyche’s permanent replacement the following season, setting a Championship record as Burnley clinched promotion with seven games to spare. However, their top-flight campaign was a struggle, resulting in relegation after only five victories all season.

Despite this, Kompany was appointed Bayern Munich manager last summer, prompting Dyche to sarcastically remark that he wishes he could have “left the club £127million in debt and then got the Bayern job”.

Now hosting a talkSPORT radio show after being sacked by Everton in January, Dyche couldn’t resist a dig at Kompany while discussing his time at Burnley. “So what the club were brilliant at, they dealt with that promotion [up to the Premier League in 2014] in the right way,” Dyche said.

“And the reason was, and I was involved in this, but I said to them they were still paying players off from two years, three years previous when they got in the Premier League.

“And I went, ‘You can’t go through that again’. I said, ‘There’s got to be more to it. Now you’ve got to do something that means something’. So they agreed, built the training ground, took a knock, went down that first season.

“I spent about nine million quid on the team, which is farcical, really. But put the money into the club and the future of the club. And they did stand by me. So we did go down that season on 35 points.

“People forget that. We’ve gone to big Komps [Kompany], haven’t we? 24 [points], I think they got. It’s been £127million and he got the Bayern job.

“Come on, I don’t know how that works. I wish I was doing it. I wish I’d have left the club £127million in debt and then got the Bayern job. Anyways, there’s an interesting twist of life.”

Kompany’s Bayern are currently six points clear at the top of the Bundesliga and are set to face Inter Milan in the Champions League quarter-finals, having gone trophyless last season for the first time since 2012.