'I have a different vision and philosophy to Hayes' - Bompastor

Sonia Bompastor arrived astatine Chelsea pinch large boots to fill.

Her predecessor Emma Hayes won 14 awesome trophies, including 5 successive Women's Super League titles, earlier joining nan US women's nationalist team.

It is an awesome trophy haul but location was a glaring spread successful her Chelsea resume - nary Women's Champions League.

This is wherever Bompastor comes in. The erstwhile Lyon leader has won 3 European trophies arsenic a subordinate and head and hopes to do nan aforesaid successful London.

The 44-year-old hopes to build connected nan beardown foundations group by Hayes but insisted, arsenic she addressed nan media for nan first clip astatine Stamford Bridge, that she is "a different person" to her predecessor.

"[Hayes] gave her life to nan club. The guidelines is really good, and she near nan nine successful specified a awesome position," said Bompastor.

"But I was not expecting thing other from her. She's specified a awesome head and personification - truthful it is bully for maine to travel aft her.

"I person a different imagination and philosophy. I’m conscionable trying to build connected that bequest and find a measurement to negociate nan players and staff.

"What is really important is to travel to this club, respect everything that was built earlier and build my ain vision. I dream we will beryllium successful."

There are already parallels betwixt Bompastor and Hayes.

Bompastor says she "hates losing" and "doesn't want to talk astir it" erstwhile she does, driven by a request to triumph - thing we saw successful abundance pinch Hayes.

The 2 are besides mothers. Bompastor has 4 children, including twins, and she held them successful her arms arsenic she mingled pinch members of nan media connected Wednesday.

Moments earlier, nan Frenchwoman had announced she "really likes pressure" and joked she was incapable to reply a mobility because of a connection obstruction erstwhile asked astir Chelsea's attack for her while she was still Lyon boss.

She besides questioned nan home almanac and its deficiency of support for English clubs competing successful Europe - thing Hayes based on for galore years - and gave america an penetration into nan level of aggression she will show successful her guidance style.

"I'm a very different personification to [who] I americium arsenic a manager. In life I deliberation I'm quiet. I for illustration to bask life and wound connected everything," said Bompastor.

"As a head I americium really competitory and I don't for illustration losing. I americium a really bad loser. I ne'er want it to happen.

"I americium besides a head who really likes to return attraction of people. It's a difficult job. I americium wholly different astatine location and successful my job. You will see, I deliberation we will person immoderate nosy times together."

This is simply a caller era astatine Chelsea and Bompastor's beingness marks that - truthful really will her squad play?

She has recruited nan likes of England defender Lucy Bronze from Barcelona and France guardant Sandy Baltimore from Paris St-Germain this summer.

Bompastor says she is building a squad that tin header pinch nan beingness demands of nan WSL and its competitiveness each week, arsenic good arsenic having nan value successful extent to situation connected aggregate fronts for silverware - astir notably successful Europe.

"I want to person a squad who are really ascendant successful nan convention [and] successful nan Champions League. We want to person nan shot arsenic overmuch arsenic possible," she said.

"I want nan players to beryllium really committed. I want them to bask being connected nan field, playing a bully style and [in a] nosy measurement for everyone, scoring a batch of goals.

"This is what we are going to effort and achieve. My occupation is to make judge it's clear for nan players, and for them to beryllium free connected nan transportation and to definitive their talent."

Implementing a caller style tin sometimes return time, Bompastor admits that herself, but she is nether nary illusions arsenic to what nan expectations are.

"I cognize erstwhile you are successful a nine for illustration Chelsea, nan results are nan astir important, and you person nary clip to build your crippled model," she added.

"You person to beryllium an businesslike squad from nan beginning. I cognize that, and I cognize I want to make judge from nan opening you tin spot my ain measurement to coach."

Chelsea went done a thorough recruitment process to switch Hayes but Bompastor was ever their apical priority.

They said it was her winning mentality, thrust to clasp a caller situation and her occurrence successful Europe that attracted them to her.

She comes pinch pedigree and location are precocious expectations.

"At nan infinitesimal I don't consciousness immoderate pressure. Even if nan nine puts maine nether immoderate pressure, I'm nan 1 who puts moreover much unit connected myself," said Bompastor.

"I don't request personification to travel and show maine what I person to do. I've signed for 4 years. I deliberation 4 years is simply a bully clip for maine to put successful my ain philosophy, imagination and what I feel."

Her determination to time off Lyon was not an easy one. She ended her playing profession there, led their academy, and past became caput coach of nan first squad for 3 years.

Bompastor's children - nan eldest being 9 years aged - had to move schools. They moved home, moved to a caller country, a caller civilization and now mostly speak their 2nd language.

"I conscionable felt for illustration it was nan correct clip for maine to person a caller challenge, and this is what I'm looking for successful my life, ever to person these caller challenges," said Bompastor.

"After these 3 seasons [at Lyon], everyone was truthful utilized to each other. You conscionable spell to your comfortableness zone, and sometimes it's bully to travel retired of your comfortableness zone.

"For me, nan extremity is really clear. I wanted to travel to a nine who has ambitions to triumph nan Champions League successful a caller country, pinch a caller club...

"This is thing really special."