Former Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany is set to make his debut as Anderlecht player-manager in late June.
Anderlecht’s first friendly for pre-season will be against RWDM on June 22 and this could be the match when the defender will officially become part of the team.
It remains to be seen whether Kompany will appear in the Brussels derby as a player or merely as a trainer.
At the beginning of July, RSCA will go into camp in Venlo in the Netherlands.
Kompany’s first media conference of the preseason is due in mid-June.
Kompany left a victorious Manchester City dressing room at Wembley for the fifth and final time citing family commitment as the reason for his exit but later announced he was returning to Anderlecht, the club he called home between the ages of six and 20.
He was, as his statement on Sunday morning explained, “born and raised” as a footballer there and he will leave City in order to spend the next three seasons attempting to revive their fortunes as player-manager.
The announcement, released in two parts as an open letter on his Facebook page, initially spelled out that Saturday’s 6-0 FA Cup final victory over Watford, which secured a historic domestic treble for City, had been his last game for the club, ending weeks of speculation over the likelihood of his 11-year stay being extended.