Premier League - City seal Kompany deal

Eurosport - Sat, 23 Aug 13:40:00 2008

Manchester City have confirmed the signing of Vincent Kompany from Hamburg for an undisclosed fee.

FOOTBALL 2007-2008 Bundesliga Hamburg Kompany - 0

The defender has put pen to paper on a four-year deal and becomes City's third signing of the summer following the arrivals of defender Tal Ben Haim and Brazilian striker Jo.

The 22-year-old moved to Hamburg from Anderlecht in 2006, and has since been regularly linked with a move to England.

Kompany was angered last week after Hamburg recalled him from the Beijing Olympics for their opening Bundesliga match against Bayern Munich. The resulting row is likely to have contributed to his departure, with the Belgian international claiming that Hamburg denied him an Olympic medal.

Belgium reached the semi-finals and will now face Brazil in the bronze medal match on Friday.

The highly-rated defender said at the time: "I am being made to look as if I broke a promise. There was a written agreement between Hamburg and the Belgian FA, but my promise was that we would look at the sporting situation.

"Hamburg have been in the Bundesliga for nearly 50 years and played Bayern nearly 100 times, and they will play Bayern another 100 times, but for Belgium, it was the first time ever at the Olympic Games."

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Sporting Life / Tony Mabert / Eurosport

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  1. dwayne no john terry in the best team in the world i dont think so hemissed the vital penatly in the champions league final buckled under pressure just like he did and will do again with england rio is the man your looking for but yes it is a good team

    From chris, on Fri 22 Aug 7:14PM

  2. is dis the best team in de world? ? ? :buffon/lahm,carragher,terry,ramos/ronaldo,gerrard,pirlo,kaka/ torres,messi...

    From dwayne, on Fri 22 Aug 2:58PM

  3. stop sayin how gd he is on football manager, its not real!!! we'll soon see how good he realy is.

    From kevin_bennetts@..., on Fri 22 Aug 2:30PM

  4. Iam also a Belgian and know that Vincent is going to perform very well for City. Come on guys, Mark Hughes is a very shrewd manager and he would not have agreed to the transfer if the player was not in his plans.
    By the way, I live in Ghana and teams should come and see the "potentials" within this part of the world.

    From philippe d, on Fri 22 Aug 2:06PM

  5. he doesnt play on the wing, good news perhaps on keeping corluka.

    From kvbrock82, on Fri 22 Aug 11:56AM

  6. Wonder where he will play him, our defence was woeful against Villa, and Dunne has made a few howlers recently, so beefing up the back four or just in front.
    Looking forward to (finally) seeing Jo & Benyani up front.

    From p.keane@..., on Fri 22 Aug 10:10AM

  7. Keith R, keep your scumbag opinion to yourself! I don't even bother looking on utd's news page, so why do you take the time to look on CITY'S? Pot Kettle Black as far as your Richard Dunne comment is concerned, rooney's a fat lumbering shrek c*!t who's in Dunne's pocket whenever we play you! He's an overrated granny-sh*!ging ugly scouser!

    From Stephen, on Fri 22 Aug 8:17AM

  8. In football manager or in flesh, this man is a handfull of player.. City is very lucky to get him..

    From anonymous_mandyasa, on Fri 22 Aug 2:19AM

  9. lol that many thumbs down im honoured cheers people thats what you get for taking an ex utd player to be your boss all hail mark hughes the true city fan!!

    From chris, on Fri 22 Aug 12:55AM

  10. dead right....he'll have his work cut out to get in front of Dunne....he's so fat and lumbering he'll be out of breath by the time he gets round him !!

    From Keith R, on Thu 21 Aug 10:58PM

  11. Yes a good signing for Man City. If he continues to progress im sure he will be one of the top central defenders of his generation. He has his work cut out to get in front of Dunne & Richards, but good luck to the lad, I'm really hope he makes it.

    From sunglassesron53, on Thu 21 Aug 10:36PM

  12. Is everyone on here rating him off Football Manager? If so, he should have gone to Arsenal - bexause that's his favourite club

    From fistfullofvisas, on Thu 21 Aug 9:13PM

  13. wow thats a signing !

    From lionhell, on Thu 21 Aug 7:42PM

  14. NOOOOOOOO! He should have joined Arsenal. Enough said.

    From The Northerner, on Thu 21 Aug 7:40PM

  15. home of true football you must be joking kompany is a quality player why on earth go to man @#$% united or arsenal i could understand city are using dirty money and dirty tactics tapping up every decent player there is man city scum

    From chris, on Thu 21 Aug 7:15PM

  16. lets just wait and see how good he is wonder if he can play midfield,forward and defance all at the same time,come on the blues

    From paulcassidy69, on Thu 21 Aug 7:07PM

  17. he's going to the home of true football, in the only true footballing city

    From Christopher, on Thu 21 Aug 6:29PM

  18. This guy is great. If he doesn't get injured, he'll be fantastic. In a few years he'll be one of the best.

    From josmanjos, on Thu 21 Aug 5:48PM

  19. He's good in the flesh aswell!! Seen him play on a few occasions!!!!

    From jamesdavies719@..., on Thu 21 Aug 4:45PM

  20. to bursey boy he is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better tha silvestre

    From opowicz, on Thu 21 Aug 4:42PM
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