Vincent Kompany speaks out on Leon Goretzka after Manchester United links

Bayern Munich brag Vincent Kompany insists Leon Goretzka is ‘important for us’ aft the midfielder was linked with an exit having fallen down the pecking order.

The 29-year-old has played conscionable 1 infinitesimal successful the Bundesliga truthful acold this season, with plentifulness of contention successful Bayern’s midfield acknowledgment to the likes of Aleksandar Pavlovic, Joao Palhinha and Joshua Kimmich.

As a effect Goretzka has been linked with a determination distant from the club, with Manchester United and West Ham some touted arsenic funny parties.

The Germany planetary did travel disconnected the seat connected Tuesday nighttime successful the Champions League, though, scoring successful the 9-2 demolition of Dinamo Zagreb.

It was lone a precocious cameo successful the crippled which saw Harry Kane people 4 goals, but Kompany says the midfielder is inactive a large portion of his squad.

‘He’s important for america and volition proceed to be,’ the Bayern brag told DAZN. ‘The squad loves him.

‘I lone person players who privation to play and judge the contention for places. At Bayern, it’s ever casual to speech astir idiosyncratic players. But I privation to speech astir the team, that’s important to me.

‘He is precise important successful this team. He’s doing well, but truthful are the others.’

It volition beryllium a conflict for Goretzka to interruption into the Bayern squad astatine the infinitesimal aft a blistering commencement to the play nether Kompany.

The Bavarian giants person won their opening 3 Bundesliga games, scoring 11 goals successful the process, and got their Champions League run disconnected to a stunning commencement with the 9-2 rout.

Big tests are to travel for Kompany and his team, though, arsenic they big champions Bayer Leverkusen earlier the extremity of the period and past spell to Aston Villa successful their adjacent Champions League outing.

After the resounding triumph connected Tuesday, Kompany said: ‘It is astir 3 points. Nine goals is simply a spot antithetic but it was a batch of fun. The vigor was good, the squad showed the close spirit.

‘We person played conscionable 1 crippled and not much than that. It is present astir the adjacent game, to support going.’

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