will be the score tomorow

back to reality, mourinho was a great manager, the best chelsea has had in years, though i really hate his style of play, 70% of the time it works, im going to miss his wacky pre match interviews.

real prediction:
2-0 OR 2-1 to united OR 3-2 to chelsea.

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Roman would appoint young well-known coaches – Deschamps, Matthaus, Koeman – and expect them to work with more experienced advisers and accept that he was in overall control. Given the lack of control over playing style and personnel they would last a season, maybe two and bring domestic success but fail to secure the Champions League.

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Roman would bring in a Chelsea legend – Zola perhaps, or Desailly – and promise attacking, expansive and successful football. Unable to produce consistency under such pressure the legend lasts two seasons before Abramovich brings in a vastly experienced taskmaster – such as Marcello Lippi. He steadies the ship but the fans are turned off by the football and so he is sacked – and the cycle starts again.

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Roman would take advice and seek out the best coach for his club (rather than the best coach per se), give him the financial backing to put his own team together and back his decisions even if they didn’t lead to immediate success.

* After a promising career as a young coach with his home club Hapoel Petah Tikva in the 1970s and early ’80s, Grant was earmarked for bigger things with Israel’s major clubs. He coached Maccabi Tel Aviv twice (1991-95 and 1997-2000) – (Reuters) – Factbox on Avram Grant of Israel who took charge of Chelsea’s first team alongside Steve Clarke after Jose Mourinho left the English Premier League club by mutual consent on Thursday.
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Born: May 6 1955, in Petah Tikva, Israel

* After a promising career as a young coach with his home club Hapoel Petah Tikva in the 1970s and early ’80s, Grant was earmarked for bigger things with Israel’s major clubs. He coached Maccabi Tel Aviv twice (1991-95 and 1997-2000) and Maccabi Haifa (2000-2002) with whom he won league and cup titles.

* Appointed Israel’s national team coach in May 2002 after the resignation of Dane Richard Moeller Nielsen, a position he held until his departure in 2006. Following a disappointing Euro 2004, Israel just missed a playoff spot for the 2006 World Cup finals, finishing unbeaten in a group behind France and Switzerland.

* Befriended Roman Abramovich during meetings in Tel Aviv in the spring of 2006 when he was expected to take up the role of coach of Hapoel Tel Aviv, which was designated to become a feeder club for Chelsea. The deal by Abramovich’s friend Levi Leviev to buy Hapoel fell through, however, and Grant moved to England.

* Appointed technical director of Portsmouth in July 2006, the club partly owned by Alexandre Gaydamak, the son of Russian-born billionaire Arkady Gaydamak, the high-profile owner of Israeli league champions Beitar Jerusalem.

* Left Portsmouth to take up the position of director of football at Chelsea, where he became reportedly the closest confidant on football matters with Abramovich.

* Took charge of Chelsea’s first team alongside Steve Clarke, replacing Jose Mourinho.

—- Better than what , better than the best .

questioned the Israeli’s suitability for his new job. How, one asked, can a coach who has not managed a side in a major European league or international tournament adequately replace a manager who twice won the Premier League? More pertinently, can a man who has coached a team in only six Champions League games return two European Cups in six seasons – the requirement that Peter Kenyon, the Chelsea chief executive, confirmed the club expect? ”Maybe yes, maybe no,” replied Grant with a shrug, a purse of the lips and not a flicker of emotion from his hangdog eyes. “I have been in football for 20 years and coached at many levels I think I have enough experience.”

— I know many people in my country who have been in football more than 30 years, they are very cheap they probably were good choices. just take a look at Kenyon asnwere , “Maybe Yes, Maybe No” , they fired Mourinho based on possibilities, Maybe chelsea get better maybe not. well that’s roman’s money but nothing is endless.

BC was talking about his history in Isreail international team ,
take a look at these statistics, these are remarkable ?

Israel 2002-2005 game:33 Win: 14 Lose:6 Draw:13
he won less than 45% of games,

mourinho
Chelsea game:120 win:85 draw:25 lose:10

by the way , EPL is much tougher than Euro games, specially in Isreail group .

I said and i will repeat it- he deliberately refused to get us any reinforcement last January because he wanted to sabotage jose and use it as a reason to get the fans’ love away from Mour but it did not work. The more he frustrated Jose the more we the fans love him.

will someone tell roman that there are things that money cannot buy. He may be a shrewd businessman but for me when it comes to football he is just a spoilt brat who will rather destroy all he has built because he cannot have his way.

Thank you Roman for all you have done but I will rather have an owner who does not toy with us on the basis of whims and caprices.

Am sure he never expected the massive support Jose has received even in the Press.

Its crazy enough getting Jose out but really its unspeakable to replace him with a nobody like Avramovich. The guy is not chelsea standard and i mean Pre- Roman Chelsea. Ranieri, Vialli and Gullit are streets ahead of him.

Even if we do well this season, it will only be down to the boys killing themselves for the sake of their own image not because of this Roman lapdog.

Avram who???????????

These include his time in charge of the Israeli national side, where he only lost six out of 33 games, and a World Cup 2006 qualification group stage where Israel finished unbeaten, narrowly missing out on qualification, which went to Switzerland and France. (more draws than wins).

‘I know that unfortunately I don’t have any experience of the English league,’ he admitted. ( you dont even have a certificate)..

‘But I have visited the training of the big coaches in England more than five, six times a year, they are my friends, so nothing can surprise me and I will try to do my best. ( ooh dear, what a genius. that makes me a good coach too. I have been to some training sessions too and played football as well).’The last qualification for Israel, we were in a group with France and we scored more goals than them.

‘In my years of football in the Israeli league ( th very best league in the world that is…if you cann remember where it is) I was always first or second in top scoring for goals.’

Grant also silenced critics who questioned his experience by comparing his arrival to that of other great coaches around the world.

‘I don’t know if people cannot expect me to be successful. But remember when Wenger came to Arsenal, everybody said Arsène who? ( he dares compare himself. Arsene was not a nobody when he came to Arsenal).

These include his time in charge of the Israeli national side, where he only lost six out of 33 games, and a World Cup 2006 qualification group stage where Israel finished unbeaten, narrowly missing out on qualification, which went to Switzerland and France. (more draws than wins).

‘I know that unfortunately I don’t have any experience of the English league,’ he admitted.

‘But I have visited the training of the big coaches in England more than five, six times a year, they are my friends, so nothing can surprise me and I will try to do my best. ( ooh dear, what a genius. that makes me a good coach too. I have been to some training sessions too and played football as well).’The last qualification for Israel, we were in a group with France and we scored more goals than them.

‘In my years of football in the Israeli league I was always first or second in top scoring for goals.’

Grant also silenced critics who questioned his experience by comparing his arrival to that of other great coaches around the world.

‘I don’t know if people cannot expect me to be successful. But remember when Wenger came to Arsenal, everybody said Arsène who? ( he dares compare himself. Arsene was not a nobody when he came to Arsenal).

PS:Anyone want to buy a CPO share?

Liverpool 0-0 Birmnigham , so Benitez should be sacked ? who spent a lot on buying strikers? no of course not ,just a stupid person like ROman does so , but anyway, I am just counting days to see Roman’s departure, because everyone knows chelsea as an unstable club, and they don’t dare to come to chelsea.

@bigbadblue : Liverpool’s owners are not that stupid to do so.

the A#@S&%*S^^H()L#S

you think Benitez and Liverpool will come to a mutual agreement to part ways tomorrow??? your thots…