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.