The decision to relieve Patrick Vieira of his duties was a very poor one, according to Burnley boss and former Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany. The Belgian questioned Palace’s logic behind the decision – considering they are still above the Premier League’s drop zone.”I looked at the league table first and was just checking, and I thought Palace were in the bottom three and five points short of safety. But I see they are 12th and three points clear of relegation. So for my objective, rational mind, I’d say Crystal Palace would be very happy if they are not in the relegation zone based on the squad they have assembled.”🗣️ “It doesn’t sit well with me. You’ve taken out a manager who is overachieving.” Vincent Kompany disagrees with the decision makers at Crystal Palace for sacking Patrick Vieira ❌🦅 pic.twitter.com/xq5EGduGgl— Football Daily (@footballdaily) March 17, 2023 Vieira and Kompany played together for 18 months at City, but the Burnley tactician insists that he’s looking at the situation with no bias. Palace may have gone 12 games without winning, but Kompany believes Vieira was a victim of a tough run of fixtures.”I looked at Palace’s run of games and I saw Newcastle, Chelsea, United, twice City, in-form teams Brentford and Brighton. I saw that Zaha has been missing for games in that spell. Games that are left are against Leeds, Nottingham Forest, Wolves, Everton. All the winnable games are still to come and they have just had the hardest run of the season.”##NAJAVA_MECA_7108300##Vieira isn’t the first and he surely isn’t the last coach to lose his job due to a mix of bad circumstances. Kompany himself tasted such treatment at his previous club Anderlecht. Perhaps that’s why he’s firmly on the Frenchman’s side.”Palace’s decision doesn’t sit well with me. If you are underachieving in your job, then I think it is fair enough if a club makes a decision but if you are overachieving, which is what they are doing, then whoever is making the decision has to come forward because what you have done is taken out a manager who is overachieving, no matter which way you want to turn it. That I think is a problem in general in football.”
