That's why pre-season tour matches must be maximized well, especially for a new coach like Kompany because he must find an effective strategy to bring the team to victory. Indeed, quite a lot of people will be waiting for Kompany performance with Bayern munich because last season Die Roten's performance in the Bundesliga was so bad because they closed the season in 3rd place.
But in the match against tottenham where Kompany managed to lead bayern to win the match with a final score of 2-1. I also think that a coach must be able to show a positive pace in the first few matches of the season because that will increase the confidence of the players or the coach.
Yeah if there is any coach that would value the pre season matches of course Kompany will be one of them because that's the only opportunity he has in regards to building the club the way it will be more suitable for him and also develop a strategic patterns that would make them to be ahead other teams, though already we can see that he has already started doing that because Bayern Munich seems to be on fire on this club friendly matches they are playing, however the good thing I like about there current performance on this club friendly is that Kompany has shown everyone that he has the experience to lead Bayern Munich team to any level because we can see how there performance has been especially on there match between FC Rottach they won 14:1.
Utilizing the opportunity to gain sympathy and confidence is of course very good but it should also not be used as a reference and rule out some players who should be given playing time especially for them young players.
So that there is a balance where when he takes the confidence of the fans to see him as a worthy coach, this is also intended so that he can make young players comfortable because they get flying hours in a club because they are given the opportunity.
With the few games Kompany has played in the pre-season he's done that and that's a very good thing I think. There are some players who are given trust and get a good potential in the squad when the friendly matches can build their mentality to be even better so that pre-season although in terms of results we cannot expect much but it was quite successfully done by Kompany.
Of course there should be a room for other small players to also prove themselves, actually I understand the reason why you mentioned that because in most cases whenever a new coach is giving the opportunity they will tend to disallowed other smaller players from performing so that they will be able to continue wining all there matches and in most cases players doesn't like that kind of coaching pattern, however the good thing is that Kompany is not that kind of coach because during the time he was playing for Manchester City he knows that there are so much performance on young players if given the opportunity so he will always consider them, so perhaps already we can see it from there pre season matches because he did not only use the old players but also few of there younger players to see how they can perform.