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Among tactical implementation, developing players and dealing with the media, keeping a healthy dressing room atmosphere is one of the most important roles for a football manager. Managers can be strong tacticians but a failure to keep the dressing room under control could lead to total collapse-something Vincent Kompany's predecessors, Julian Nagelsmann and Thomas Tuchel, learnt the hard way. In contrast, the 39-year-old Belgian manager is capitalizing on his emotional intelligence to find the perfect balance at Bayern Munich.

Generally speaking, he's a very good player who's had a very good development,

Breaking through at Bayern Munich as a youth player is exceedingly difficult. Lennart Karl may have made it look easy, but usually one has to compete with an array of stars as an academy player to get game time. Felipe Chavez is in a fairly similar boat. He caught the eye with a bright display in the big 5-0 friendly against RB Salzburg before making his Bundesliga debut against VfL Wolfsburg.

Harry Kane has been a revelation with Bayern Munich, regularly scoring or assisting goals and even started several attacking moves that end in a goal. That's what he embodies: goal, goal, goal. Bayern has a goal too: to extend his contract before anyone can have a sniff, much like they did with Vincent Kompany when Manchester City were on the prowl.

FC Bayern kick off the Rückrunde on Saturday with an away game at RB Leipzig. Despite having 47 points and a goal difference of 66:13 - the best-ever first half of a Bundesliga season - and a comfortable 11-point lead over second place, the start of the second half of the season is kind of a new beginning for Vincent Kompany: "We're starting from scratch again," stressed the record champions' head coach.

Former Bayern Munich stars Thomas Müller and Mats Hummels had a little get together in Berlin to watch the NBA game between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Orlando Magic. As it turns out, the boys also ran into another familiar face - former Mainz 05, Borussia Dortmund, and Liverpool FC head coach (and future Real Madrid boss) Jürgen Klopp. German players (and brothers) Franz Wagner (18 points) and Mo Wagner (7 points) helped power the Magic to a 118-111 victory.