Vincent Kompany on the changes to his Championship winning squad

Vincent Kompany was asked in his press conference if he has made too many changes to his Championship winning side.

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00:00 The question you ask is part of a much bigger question really, about the gap between the

00:08 Championship and the Premier League and just the different strategies you can find to try

00:17 and close that gap.

00:21 So, I don't think the question is as simple as that.

00:25 Every team is different in how it's composed when it comes up and how it goes when it goes

00:29 down.

00:30 The example of some of the teams that went down to the Championship with a lot of Premier

00:35 League players playing in the Championship, so you could be fairly confident that if they

00:39 come back up they have a…

00:41 I think in our case, because it's a bigger question, we built a team in the Championship

00:48 that was built to be good in the Championship, but when you come up you're facing a totally,

00:54 totally different level and part of the fact that we've had to do that…

00:59 I'm sorry, I'm letting you in on a bigger question because it is something…

01:03 Probably not the right time to reflect on it, but just to set the context, because those

01:09 are things that we openly discuss every time.

01:12 But part of the things that you have to take into consideration is that we went down with

01:20 a very small squad, I had nine or ten players in training in the Championship when I signed.

01:26 It wasn't 30 players in training and you have to trim it down.

01:29 No, it was no players and the few players that you think are those players that you

01:34 have to sell them and we rebuild an entire Championship squad really out of nothing that

01:41 was quite successful in the Championship.

01:43 It was quite a remarkable season.

01:44 I think eventually in the future people will appreciate the magnitude of the task we had

01:49 that year.

01:51 But to say that that team was ready to go from Championship to Premier League just like

01:54 this, there was just as little experience in the Premier League in the Championship

01:59 team that we had last season to go to the Premier League as in the Premier League team

02:02 we have this year.

02:03 It is what it is.

02:04 It's a reality.

02:05 But, OK, meanwhile we've got 28 games in the Premier League so we've built our own

02:10 experience into the squad a little bit.