Vincent Kompany is hoping to persuade two valued members of Manchester City’s backroom staff to join him in Anderlecht as he prepares to make his first foray into management.

The Manchester City captain announced on Sunday that he will be leaving the club after 11 years in order to take over as player-manager at Anderlecht this summer.

And sources in Belgium have indicated that Kompany is keen for Simon Davies, one of City’s academy coaches and a former midfielder with Manchester United, and Sam Erith, the club’s head of sports science, to follow him to Brussels.

Davies has been in charge of City’s Under-23 side since Patrick Vieira left for New York City FC in Major League Soccer in the US in 2015 although the 45-year-old is now taking on a new role as head of academy coaching from the Under-13 age group up to the Under-23s.

Vieira was a keen admirer of Davies and Kompany is known to hold a similarly high opinion of him. Erith has been at City since 2011 and oversees sports science, fitness and conditioning at the club. Prior to joining City, he worked for seven years as head of sports science at Tottenham Hotspur and is highly regarded both at the Premier League champions and within the game.