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Chelsea Fans’ Online Petition to Sack Avram Grant!
Now here is an online petition if you want to see Avram Grant sacked. The objective of the petition is to gather the feelings of the Chelsea fans who want to see Avram sacked and replaced with a world class manager.
I think this petition would go very nicely with Jonathan Dyer’s article on Chelseablog titled “Why Avram Grant Must Go“. The text of the petition is this:
Avram Grant should go. He is not a top quality coach to manage a team like Chelsea FC. Under Grant, Chelsea has gone many steps backwards and the future looks hopeless, considering how our rivals have gained ground.
We all request Chelsea FC to bring in a world class manager in place of Avram Grant, in order to reclaim and resurrect the team’s lost vigour, spirit, passion and respect.
If you support Avram’s stay at Chelsea, I’m sorry. Otherwise, you can click here to sign this petition!
100 Comments
1. vincent ferrari
2. Kyle
Avram Grant does not have what it takes to coach this club. He clearly does not have the respect of the players or the necessary leadership to do the job. This is obvious in big games and was never more obvious than in overtime when he sat with his thumb up his a$$ and let ballack, terry, and steve clark motivate the team. He is lost and needs to be fired.
On another note, abromavich needs to put his ego aside and realize that mourinho is arguably the best manager in the game and bring him back. Chelsea may have played conservative football on the pitch, but they always won, and always had an exciting story line off the pitch to follow along with. Jose brought an excitement to this team that needs to return.
3. Anonymous
sack grant
4. Farrell
Only if they are going to bring back Mourinho. Imagine the payoff Mourinho would require…no way Roman would go for that. He’s the 7th richest man on the planet…deals with Putin and world leaders. Doesn’t want to back down and bring back Mourinho. But Jose is the best. Still trying to figure how we lost him in the first place.
5. Guzman
Well to me Grant needs to leave and i give koodoos to Steve. CFC needs a good coach !!!
6. ruski chav
stupid chelsea.. how can u ask for a world class manager when u r not even a world class team??
remember,u just a toy club without history..
7. Roman's Error
Its not hard to see, Grant is a lesser personality that Jose was. Grant has no vigor nor top leadership skills to head such a strong charactered team. The Chelsea squad is full of hot shots and talented stars, if you allow this kind of group to run rampant without a countering force, you will end up with a deteriorating slide that has been rolling since Grant took over.
People try to give credit to Grant for keeping a good record since Jose departed. Wake the f up, its Mourinho’s team! All Grant is doing is shepherding them off onto the pitch, standing around pretending to be this world class manager which he is definitely not.
Its a job, and a very big job to take over. What do we all do on a new big job where you just edged yourself in due to a hook up? We try to impress and play a part that is beyond us. Now and then you will get a shark swimmer that can keep up and learn rapidly. In Grants case he clearly has not been able to stay abreast of the entire Chelsea FC emotion.
In order for Avram to succeed he would have needed to be a huge personality to give such a team belief and a high self esteem. This leads me to a side-note, I feel Roman brought Avram in due to his wet behind the ear quality. He is new to all this Prem stuff, this allows Roman to put his 2 cents in whenever he feels like it as Grant wont counter anything he says with any force that is. This is exactly why Roman got rid of Jose! Mourinho was simply brilliant and on top of that he had the charisma and character to lead such a massive team. The players more than likely wouldn’t question his superiority. This absolutely lead to problems with Roman and Jose, as such a strong people would surely bash heads given the time. So nix Jose and bring in stupid Grant with minimal training and no history as a player.
Come on Roman, back down off your “Im the Man” rubbish mentality for a moment and think about what’s best for the fans and for the team! The only result of the current scenario will be defeat and a team that will slowly disperse. Grant may be your mate and he may pray to the same god but none of this matters in football, esp this level of footie!
Bite your lip, call Jose, sweet him up a bit and bring him back….sacking him surely goes down as a mistake! And although Im sure a man like Roman doesn’t make many mistakes…..no one and I mean NO ONE, not even the most powerful men in the world are perfect.
It takes a real man to admit when he is wrong, it takes an even bigger man to correct it.
8. Sam Rhodes
Stevie Clarks blue and white army WE HATE AVRAM!
9. abe
Avram is exactly same as Raniery. Sack Avram!
10. Krishna
Bring Frank Rikaard or Biblic.
11. Mourofessien
All we are saying Bring back JOSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
12. Anees
Sack Avram. Bring Rijkarrd to reshape in a different style.
13. Johnarejr
ruski chav, even with Grant, Chelsea is alive for three trophies. So take your Anfield history and stick it in any part of your anatomy that you choose! Funny how you sure were absent from this board for the past three seasons. Save your sorry insults for your own board when Rafathead once again does not add anything to your “history.”
abe, Ranieri was and is a better manager than Grant. True, the Tinkerman made us speak in more tounges than a pentecostal pastor. But, looking at the job he has done with Juventus, don’t insult Ranieri like that.
Not only must Grant go, I say take Sheva with him! Think back to the end of ‘06 when it was clear that Crespo wanted to go back to Italy. Look at the fine young talent that was out there for the taking; Polodzki, Tevez, Martins, to name a few. There was no need to spend that kind of money on an older striker with his best years behind him. But no, Roman just had to spend a king’s ransom on this one mercinary who wasn’t nearly as good as Drogba. And if he was getting paid like that, why wouldn’t Chelsea’s proven players want the same? Sheva is a cancer that reeks bad morale on the team.
I am willing to give Grant to the end of the season if he can keep the Blues in the fight for a treble to the end of March to mid April. But, if things are falling apart, sack him (and Sheva) and let Clarke be the caretaker manager until Roman finds the quality he needs or he swallows his billion dollar pride and brings back the boring trophy winning fellow.
14. blue_victoryAUS
Don’t just sack him get Taylor to tackle him.
15. neo
grant poyoooo…jeee…mcm hampeeeh…..tak tahu tactic langsung….aku rasa budak sekolah pun lagi tahu…..buang je grant….hidup CHELSEA…..
16. Meo-MALAYSIA
Just fired/sack…avram….stupid manager….dont even know how to select player…dont see any good tactic….only bad tactic…..just stop FOOLING around….SACK AVRAM GRANT NOW!!!!!..BEFORE TO LATE……but i still love CHELSEA…CHELSEA…CHELSEA….
17. ruski chav
johnarejr.. who says im a scouser? do i look like one? im a just genuine football fan.. for me liverpool is just a team living in their past..
but chelsea is the real deal here.. unless they get a manager who can handle all the greedy, money-motivated players, like mourinho did, chelsea are going no where.. bcos there’s no reason whatsoever that those players are playing week in week out,with the pride of the shirt.. all they see is money..
so,you are saying that even with grant chelsea are still alive in 3 fronts? just wait,i give u another 2 weeks.. n all the 3 fronts will falter before u know it..
18. neo
ruski-chav….chelsea got world class player so chelsea deserve a world class manager….n we making history….
19. Cossa
Can call me CRAZY! But I want Mourinho Back!
I want the special one!
Sack that ******* ***!
20. True Blue Fusion
@BC
I Feel the petition should make it’s way at the end of the season……..not for giving grant time but for the sake of commonsense
majority of us are of the logic sack grant install clarke/ten cate………….i mean they are already there…….they are there helping in tactics and motivational aspects……i mean it would just bring more press nothing else in terms of productivity.
on a fair day i expect at the end of season
grant moves back to dof
riijkard comes in
major changes in squad by riijkard to make it play the way roman wants
21. BlueChampion
TBF
I feel we are not harming any of our chances by adding pressure to Grant, because I don’t think we can win anything this season. If we do, that’ll be fantastic.
I’m prepared to give him the time when everytime I see that Grant does not even try to suit this role, I feel this should stop now.
Do you think Grant really tries hard? I don’t think so. He has taken this job very lightly and is feeling the heat now. I’m not feeling for dropping the trophy at the final. I’m annoyed at the way we played and we have been playing of late. I’m even more annoyed to see that the dressing room is not really united and there are serious differences between the staff and players. If this is not addressed, this might even result in quarrels and fights among the players very soon.
For once, I’m happy that the Press is on Chelsea’s neck. Let the Chelsea top management feel the pressure and act on this soon.
22. True Blue Fusion
@BC
why not create a post for who should be the next manager?
My choices
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1.Slavan Bilic-Croatia Manager……….just watched him only once action while he was busy dumping “self-created world’s best” out of euro.
he has left a huge impression on me………almost everything which mourinho had with exception of brand of footy played…….he played f*ckin attacking flair footy which roman craves for……..he likes to win and that’s why he actually defeated “we-are-world-class” at allegged fortress when even a defeat would have no effect on their standings……brilliant subs……..one of which gave the winner.
if you ask me,perfect replacement…….young,hungry,passion for what he is doing………..i will be following euro with croatia as my second side………..hope roman and co. too
2.Frank Riijkard
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ok…..many of us don’t like him……..but fact is fact he has won at highest level ……albeit as many trophies as jose if you notice that cc and cs are not played in spain and with the best football…….YOUNG and long term replacement
23. True Blue Fusion
@BC
Not supporting grant…………..but if we sack him right now……he will be getting a big compensation………why not kick him unofficially………next season move him to dof and let him rot in there.
24. Johnarejr
If by some reason Chelsea stays in the CL and FA and takes advantage of their game at hand and cuts the Gooner’s lead to six, let Grant stay where he is. That is still a better performance than all but two managers in the league even if he really doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Think about it, if we give him (AND SHEVA) the axe now, who can we get to replace him? Will Rikkjard abandon Barca before the end of the season? I’m sure the other possible candidates also have some sort of obligations that they want to finish before comming to the Bridge as well. Only JM would be immediately availiable and Chelsea would have to fall rock bottom and Roman would have to eat a lot of expensive crow for that to happen. No, as long as the team, theoreticly, have a shot at all three remaining trophies by mid April, leave the bums (bums) alone.
However, 12 April and Chelsea is out of the CL and FA, Clarke should be named as caretaker manager. He has seen the club in it’s rise and fall and knows best how to hold the players together enough to salvage some sense of pride. He’ll provide some sense of team spirit and unity until the end of the season.
25. Johnarejr
Correction, there are a few other managers who are doing better with their clubs, not just Wenger and Sir Alex. But, 12 April is a suitable deadline for Grant to get it together or get a new job (and take Sheva with him).
26. mike ayad
i dont want mourinho back i want to see rijkaard come in during summer and let mourinho go to barca. Then everyone will be happy……except for stupid grant.
27. ruski chav
appoint who ever u want.. once roman got boring of him, he’ll be gone before you know it..
28. MourofEssien
TBF,
Get Rijkaard so he can give us what Roman wants? Does roman want what chelsea need at all? I do not think so. If he did, he would not 1. sack a great manager at the beginning of the season 2. replace him with a man with no pedigree 3. have the audacity to give that man a four year contract when everyone except him could see that the man was only depending on the solid work left behind by Jose.
What Roman wants is not what the majority of chelsea fans want. i get sick to realise that we have become such a toy in the hands of a man who is not even sure what our club needs.
The surest guarantee of silverwares if you ask me is Jose- rijkaard with all those fantastic talents hardly ever managed to beat Jose’s blues when they play 11 against 11. This romantic notion of eye pleasing football should be discarded pls. what Chelsea needs is a man who can deliver us trophies regularly, frighten the hell out of all our opponents, generate news and controversies that will make us a household name once more and put us where we deserve- number one spot in the world. and that man is Jose.
Roman should face it- he screwed up big time and he should be man enough to realise this and get jose back.
29. denver
Guys who are some of the managers you guys would want to see at Chelsea, i think vote on the best one and send it in to Celsea and explore the possibilities of getting him.
*** Mr. Roman caused this….. why you ask? well he is trying to play manager and this is causing a host of problems!
*** Mr. Roman SHOULD NOT have sacked “THE SPECIAL ONE” at the start of the season, he should have waited if he wanted him to leave so bad. that move sent our season down the hill!!
He (Mr. Roman)seems to have forgotten the injuries we had last season but we still won two cups!!
This season Jose would have won the CC and EPL FA cup and Carling cups!!but roman messed it all up!
so now we have to looking for a new manager before the season has ended!! thats not good for a team like ours(Chelsea) that want to build a history.
Guys im sad to say but after such a good start the special one gave us we will have to start building again!!
(Jose didn’t buy Sheva or Ballack Mr. roman did, Jose want to buy Eto’o) that was Mr. Roman thinkering with the team.
GUYS do you agree???!!!
so lets make that list of managers and vote on it
with that said i think Grant should get the axe, but im not so sure we should do it when the champion’s league is at stake. do you agree?
30. denver
Yes i think so too he should just go back to Jose and beg him to come back.WE NEED JOSE BACK!!!
Guys you remember when Jose used to tell the opposition they would loose the match!! in the press conference!! and the opposition would just loose their confidence!!! and we would destroy them on the field!!
those were the good old days!!
31. denver
Guys one more thing… I think, no, I know that if Chelsea, our team wants to be a very big club we need to keep a manager for a very long time,not just 3-4 years. look a arsenal, and manu, they had success and failure at their respective clubs but they didn’t axe their world class managers. we had one!!
32. MourofEssien
All we are saying, Bring back Joseeeeeeeeeeeee-
That is the petition fans should sign online and circulate at the bridge to get most of our fans to sign and then present it to Roman.
33. moyo
Denver, i really dig what you were saying. I remember those days when jose used to tell redknapp, martin jol and even wenger during the press conference that they would lose and they al eventually lost to us everytime. But now, this Israelite buffoon with no experience has dragged our name in the mud. This old illiterate cannot take our team anywhere.
We all know we cannot win anything again this season so i expect kenyon and roman to sack this fool and get another manager. I know jose will NEVER come back to the bridge so i’ll advise we get someone else.
34. Syed
Sack Ten Cate. Clarke and Zola as stand in managers for this season, if we cant bring Jose back. Scolari or Hiddink next season.
35. midfield_decider
Guys, let’s talk sense -
1. Roman will not go for Jose
2. Jose himself will not come back
3. We don’t need Jose (when he was sacked he was on downhill, on his 1-st year he played fantastic football because of Ranieri’s fantastic attacking players)
We need Rijkaard, given that Roman does not interfere in his job for at least 4 years. Then we’ll be a new Barcelona.
36. MourofEssien
M_D, we disagree again. Jose downhill? tell me how many managers can still keep their team in all four competitions till almost May, even though, the club owner aided by vicious hangers on were dogging every single one of his steps not to mention the unexpected injuries to key players like JT, Cech, Carvalho and robben. Don’t tell me we managed through same injuries this season- the reason we did so was largely down to jose’s foresight in securing Alex free belleti on the cheap and also the resurgence of SWP.
And why can’t Roman be man enough enough to admit his mistake? Jose loves Chelsea- if he sees real and genuine turn around in roman, he will give it a though because he knows we the Blues really love him.
37. Cosmas Chuku
BRING BACK MOURINHO! SWALLOW YOUR PRIDE, BRING HIM BACK, HE IS WHAT WE NEED. HE NEEDS US WE NEED HIM! AS AN EXCELLENT TACTICIAN HE CAN METAMORPHOSE INTO AN ATTACK MINDED COACH. IF CAPELLO CAN COACH DEFENSIVE MILAN AND THEN ATTACKING REAL MADRID THEN MOURINHO CAN CHANGE
38. AGfriend
@9. abe -
C’mon abe Ranieri if he reads your blog, he will get offended, can you see Avram Grant managing ANY italian team? let alone Juve, the only thing Ranieri misses is the killing instinct, that JM had.
Now regarding JT frcas with Ten Cate, I only feel sorry that JT didnt head butted Ten Cate, so next time he stops bullying players that are much better than he EVER was as a footballer. For missing to head butt Ten Cate Roman should fine him £100K, period.
About JM he will NEVER come back, secont turns are seldom successful, just watch Kevin and Oldcastle.
When Roman sacks AG he should have a clause in the departure, that AG should NOT manage any english team for 24 months at least, this guy (AG) may manage another team and make them challange the top 4 teams, also he (AG) may take most of the players with him, he is that BRLLIANT.
About his (AG) continuity, if he manages a troffy OR IF HE MANAGES to stay in the first 4 places in the EPL, damn it no 1 can catch us now too many points adrift, Liver playing extremelly inconsistent, Everton or any other teams below are too far, and they have not got the players to do it so we may still have to suffer this damn clown for some time. An with 4 joining the CL next season he is already assured CL football. so this is no brainer, another Roman’s trick to appease the FANS.
I am REALLY worried that if AG leaves there will be a double decker full of top teams to sign him, this could challenge the ambition of Chelsea to be a TOP club in the world. Better keep him (AG) as a manager of synchronised swimming, at least he could delight himself at long nice legs.
39. Penguino
He needs to go, Under Jose we were on the front & back pages of every newspaper WORLDWIDE, whether the story was good or bad, we were in everyone’s faces both on the field and in the media. Sadly Grant was surviving on players playing for the team & their team-mates, injuries, suspensions and African Cup spared Grant from making tough tactical decisions when it came to team selection and tactics. The Carling Cup final showed that Grant is WAY out of his depth, a better manager with a much lesser team outplayed & outstrategised Chelsea. Team selection, tactics, substitutions and team talk (non-existant at extra time, was left up to John Terry) were ALL woeful. I agree that at the end of the day the players are the only ones that play the game BUT under Jose at the same time of the year last season, Chelsea were in the same situation but the players ALL played as though it was a cup final, it didn’t matter who was chosen and in what position, mostly players were played out of position but played for their manager, thats ALL gone. I’m devastated, Roman Abramovic’s advisors who told him that with a team as great as Chelsea, ANYONE can manage it & win things, so he gets rid of Jose & appoints Grant, expecting to achieve the dizzy hights that Jose got us to, well where are those advisors now? We are still in the FA Cup, Champion’s League and fighting for the Premiership. Chelsea may reach the final of the FA Cup based upon a lucky draw but won’t win it as long as Man Utd are there, simply a better manager will outstrategise Grant. The Champion’s League, we are struggling to beat Olympiacos, how will we go against Spain or Italy’s finest? I see an early exit even if we get past the Greek team. The Premiership, we still have to face Arsenal & Man Utd at home, Grant has stated that they are matches where we can catch the league leaders, well I see it as matches that Everton, Liverpool & others can catch Chelsea if we lose them. We’ll be luck to finish 3rd. GRANT OUT ASAP. Jose, Rijkard, Hiddink, Lippi or anyone one with a decent track record in.
40. loyaday
give the guy a break, he’s got an over paid lazy ego driven prema donas, who are not doing their jobs and need to be move on, chelsea fans need to wise up and tell the players to start earning their wages and respect of the fans.
41. AGfriend
@40. loyaday
Players earn all right their wages, but first and foremost they play
for the manager, they are not prima donnas at all.
If they were prima donnas JT wouldnt go to the length of motivating his team mates in the final, when AG was scratching his half bald top arse, yes chelsea fans need to wise up, we did since the moment we chanted “you dont know what you are doing”, wait and go to SB and see the huge bannner that is going to be shown, if the stewarts allow it, LOL.
Players are only as good as any other workers, albeit better paid, but then again their careers are a short ones,but most importantly is the guidance, if things go wrong you expect the manager to put things right, but when they know the manager has a less clue than the players, they just do not believe, you must as well put RA as the manager, at least we cfc fans can have an excuse.
This AG is the only manager that tries to make us to bielive that “stupidity is a virtue” the clown, used to say that cfc is playinmg a better type of football, so loyaday join the reason, I am furious that we lost a “mickey mouse” cup but still a cup.
And all because the fans knew better, the simple message is get rid of AG nad on the way take TC with you, leave SC to manage the team he will do much better.
Even if cheslea wins something this year, we the fans dont believe in the management team, apart from SC, with players of the calibre that cfc has we should be destroying the opposition, any opposition.
period.
42. Captain Birdseye
I campaigned for the sacking of Ranieri, so could hardly lose face by calling for Grant’s head. However, I now concede defeat and Grant must go.
43. Chris Gower
Chelsea Fans’ Online Petition to Sack Avram Grant
What a joke
Are we signing the Petition because he lost 2 out of 35 games?
Or that we only wan 25 of this games?
Or that he made it to the carling cup final? But lost it
OR because we made it to the final every year in the last 5 and wan it all?
Or because the team missed about 11 players in the last 3 month and now they are back and some adjustments need to take time?
Or maybe
You are just a group of the most arrogant selfish childish self centered fans the IPL have ever seen.
I think that’s more appropriate to describe the hard core of this blog
I see some funny geniuses don’t want to spend time on building a new team like Arsenal or Man U did,
They think it’s not the time to spend time lol, but they do want to spend…..that’s
RA $$$ lol,
They think it’s good we win more titles with his $$$$$ before we build something new on the racks JM Mr. big time spender left here in terms of salaries and expenses
Where have we been without RA?
RA is still spending about 100 million pounds a year (like the last 5 years) to cover JM spending and you tell him what to do for the benefit of the team, and still some of you take it for granted.
I keep seeing here the 2 words “world class”
That’s when you talk about the team players or about managers that need to come to the club,
Funny it comes from a D class fans
44. AGfriend
@43. Chris Gower
Chelsea Fans’ Online Petition to Sack Avram Grant
BECAUSE HE IS ABSULOTELY CRAP THATS ALL
now go back to the tv set and do some knitting.
45. MourofEssien
Chris Go-Away@43
Which part of grant go-away, don’t you get? Does this chelsea team even remotely reminds you of the awesome blues Jose was leading to battle? Listen, Sreve clarke would have achieved same results Grant achieved. The real measure of a great manager is what he does when he squares up with other great managers. which top quality manager has Grant beaten? Do you want me to tell how many Jose whipped?
Just Go-way, chris.
46. Johnarejr
M_D, in a last defense of JM, Chelsea did start the season with some major injuries. Also, if the Gooners and Man U could stick with their managers in seasons when they didn’t win the Prem and Anfield STILL has some faith in Fathead, a bad start to the season(heck a bad season)should have been tolerated. Okay, Mourinho ain’t comming back and Roman won’t ask him. Moving on now.
Whom ever Roman selects to manage the team, HE HAS TO LET HIM DO HIS JOB! Rikkjard, Hiddink, John Doe; nobody is going to want to manage a team that the owner wants to manage. The next Chelsea boss should be allowed to choose what players are the best buys, how much is too much to pay for someone, and wheter or not he’ll fit into the team’s chemestry. Yeah, Tinkerman’s selections paved the way for the first Prem. But, Drogs, Essien, Carvalliho were players who complemented if not completed what was already there. Can the same be said for Sheva? Hasn’t his overpriced unproductive buttocks caused friction in the dressing room? Ranieri would have never asked for him at that price. Roman forced him on Jose. Grant’s successor has to be given freedom from such hiddeous choices or Chelsea will not regain the kind of team unity needed to win anything by playing “boring” or “beautiful!”
47. Midfield_Decider
Hey Deat follow fans i would want Avram Grant to be sacked in next 24 hours Cos he is uselesss and incomplete man,He cant make a rightful and sensible decision.
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