Manchester City legend Vincent Kompany does not want to be compared to the club's current manager, Pep Guardiola.

The 34-year-old is head coach at Anderlecht, and is tired of comparison between himself and Guardiola.

The latter also went into coaching after a successful playing career, and quickly found his way to the very top with Barcelona.

But Kompany wants to chart his own path, and would prefer to do so without comparisons to Guardiola in terms of style.

"You have to stop comparing with Guardiola because I didn't come here saying that Anderlecht was going to become Manchester City," Kompany told Eleven Sports.

"I never said it but it will stick to me even if I never say it. It bothers me that we're getting too close to Pep because it's totally inaccessible. It makes the club look like a naive club, but we are not on the pitch.

"No one is talking about reproducing anything. Pep went to Barcelona to draw from [Johan] Cruyff and the Anderlecht I knew and the academy from which all the players came from draw on Ajax in terms of DNA, but it's not good for the club to bring this debate back to that and ultimately it doesn't reflect what we're trying to do.

"It's the Anderlecht identity that interests us and that's it. It will be different from other clubs and we have to accept it."