{"id":459207,"date":"2026-02-05T03:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/459207\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:21:08","slug":"man-city-makes-bayern-boss-kompany-no-1-target-to-replace-guardiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/459207\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City makes Bayern boss Kompany No.1 target to replace Guardiola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Vincent Kompany is Man City\u2019s number one target to replace Pep Guardiola, sources have told Football Inisder. There is a growing sense within Premier League circles that the Spaniard, 55, will leave after a decade in charge at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">City have started to plan for the possibility of his departure by holding preliminary talks with potential managerial replacements. Enzo Maresca, who worked at City as Guardiola\u2019s assistant, informed Chelsea that he had spoken to representatives of City and Juventus before being sacked by the London club last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Xabi Alonso will also be of strong interest to the Premier League giants following his departure from Real Madrid. But Kompany is said by sources to be City\u2019s first choice, although luring him from Bayern Munich may be an almost impossible task.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">One factor in their favour is Kompany\u2019s strong emotional attachment to the club he skippered to multiple trophies during the best days of his playing career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vincent Kompany is Man City\u2019s number one target to replace Pep Guardiola, sources have told Football Inisder. There&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,190108,74759,596,85],"class_list":["post-459207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bayern-munich-coaches","tag-bayern-munich-transfer-news-and-rumors","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}