Vincent Kompany slammed for 'disrespectful' moment after making return to Man City

Manchester City are in the throes of the end of an era as Pep Guardiola says his goodbyes and leaves the Premier League.

Man City became habitual winners with Guardiola in charge, converting extraordinary spending power into trophies at a rate that most clubs would envy.

Perhaps one of the few who can claim to be as prolific is Bayern Munich, where former City captain Vincent Kompany has won back-to-back German titles and ended the season with a domestic double.

Guardiola's send-off began at the Etihad Stadium after Sunday's defeat at the hands of Europa League winners Aston Villa and continued on Monday with a celebration of City's own 2025-26 cup double.

City won the Carabao Cup and FA Cup this season, adding to Guardiola's extensive trophy haul as manager.

The Catalan won the Premier League six times in his decade at the helm and City became the second club to win the Champions League on his watch.

Guardiola is credited with a vast influence on other managers and football as a whole, and nowhere more so than at the top of the Premier League and the Bundesliga this season.

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta worked under the 55-year-old at Man City. Kompany was a league-winning captain at the club, where he played with distinction in defence for more than 10 years.

Kompany was in Manchester for Guardiola's send-off and paraded the Premier League trophy, bedecked in blue and white ribbons, in front of thousands of City fans.

As a four-time winner, the Belgian appears to be as entitled as anyone to mark that particular part of Guardiola's legacy.

'Very, very disrespectful'

Such is the performative nature of Football Twitter's obsession with R-E-S-P-E-C-T and the need for players and managers to be ultra-competitive, rivalry-fuelled winning machines 24 hours a day that it was inevitable that someone would find fault with Kompany's participation in the tribute to the manager of another club.

Reposting the video of Kompany swaggering up a temporary staircase and hoisting a trophy his current club cannot win anyway, one user immediately hit the big red 'Disrespect! There is a disrespect happening!' button.

"Why is a Bayern manager getting so involved in all of this?? Kinda feel this is very, very disrespectful to Bayern," posted the chief superintendent of the fun police.

Vincent Kompany and Bayern Munich have not been approached for comment.