Vincent Kompany says working with Pep Guardiola inspired him to pursue his own managerial career.

The quondam Manchester City captain, who was appointed Burnley dominate this summer, spent 3 seasons with Guardiola before embarking on his first coaching role at boyhood society Anderlecht.

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Six of the 12 trophies Kompany won with City were achieved under the Catalan and the legendary former center-back says the influence of his old dominate was a decisive gene in his determination to go into coaching.

"He has definitely been someone who triggered me wanting to become a manager and he meant then much to my career every bit a football thespian," he said on BBC Radio iv's Today programme.

"But information technology'southward what you take away from it. Rather than trying to solve everything in the aforementioned way, yous have away an idea of solving problems.

"He was very important in me looking at the game in a unlike way, like he has been for many players and many other coaches.

"I but accommodate what I think is feasible to my situation and I desire to be my own manager, so that remains a big part of my day to day."

Afterwards calling fourth dimension on his City career at the end of the 2018/nineteen season, Kompany was initially appointed thespian-manager at Anderlecht before taking upwards coaching full-time in the summertime of 2020 following his retirement from playing.

He guided the Belgian outfit to 4th and third place finishes in the Jupiler Pro League and, whilst he admits the circular-the-clock nature of football management tin can be specially challenging, he considers himself lucky.

The 36-year-sometime remains certain that playing football remains the best job in the world, only coaching comes a close 2d.

"The best thing well-nigh existence a football manager is information technology'southward the closest thing to being a player," he added.

"Having been lucky enough to have the best job in the globe, y'all then want the second all-time!

"You lot're in the chore for a challenge and then hard is actually the manner I would draw it. You accept to put in the hours.

"We have a team where 13 players have gone and they were adept players so you take to supervene upon them with quality, which involves a lot of background checks and so you lot come up to the tactics and preparation.

"It's a lot of hours! That's the magic word in football: time.

"There is no magic recipe, information technology's usually hard piece of work. Fourth dimension is a big role of it and every now and and then you need a little bit of luck."