It may be the footballing definition of failing upwards; commit in excess of £100m to new signings and get relegated from the Premier League but escape the consequences in the Championship by landing the Bayern Munich job.
But then Vincent Kompany was always a Burnley manager with a difference. Even in his leaving, that has proved true. When Eddie Howe and Owen Coyle were poached, it was by Bournemouth and Bolton respectively. Steve Cotterill’s next job after leaving Turf Moor was at Notts County, Stan Ternent’s at Gillingham. Neither, it is safe to say, ever appeared on a shortlist compiled by Bayern.
