Good Post BC.. As Always =]

This move is still terribly hard to stomach.

Mourinho is always boss , he is not EX-boss. I really expect Chelsea fans who have chance to go to stadium on sunday , Call Jose MOurinho proudly, he did a lot for chelsea. he had a significant effect on chelsea.
I have watched chelsea with 4 managers, Gullit , Vialli , Ranieri and Jose , and I can tell you they way chelsea played with him was absoloutly fantastic, unbelievable. uncomparable with predecessors.
He really loved chelsea, you can realize this from his last interview.

Well done. Unfortunately, we only appreciate what we have after it is gone.

Manchester - Chelsea
my prediction : 2-0 Manchester.

—————- CECH —————–
belletti—-Terry—-Alex——–Ashly
SWP—–Essien—–Mikel—-Malouda
———-SHEVA—–Kalou————

don’t make mistake , I said Manchester 2-0 Chelsea

I hope chelsea win this game , but even if we won , I would believe Grant is not a good choice.

guys give some respect to new guy, u have rejected him without giving him a chance, thats not reasonable and democratic in any way…stop moaning about the past(thats what most of you ranted after Robben’s departure)….Mourinho’s departure may bring in new era for Chelsea….wait, watch and then give out your judgment….

manishchandra :
wish respect to your idea, If you watched Grant interview , you would realize why I said so , he is not a professional man , he is just a puppet right now.
he has no plan , he has never coached a big team , no one talks about his knowledge, everyone says he is a good person, being a good person is not equal to being a good coach , if it was so , Jesus was the best coach .
i have no doubt he won’t be successful and he won’t be chelsea manager for a long time, as i said if chelsea won Manchester 1000 -0 I still believe he is not a good choice for chelsea.
if we don’t need Jose , Ok , bering someone better than him , at least bring someone in his level , someone who bring something new to Stamford bridge. I wonder if Grant knows how to train a team.
but let me tell you something, as long as Roman wants to interfere with manger tasks, no big manager will come to Chelsea , do you think Capello or Lippi allow Roman to choose player for them , NOT AT ALL, Roman needs managers like Grant
, I think Roman will help Grant to prepare Line up.

Roman will leave Chelsea very soon. write this sentence on your room’s wall.

Let see what happen on sunday.
We’re still Chelsea fans , so lets go and win.

Hey the new guy grant ( I’ll always write it in small letters ) is taking a day off before the game and on top of it he DOESNT have a coaching license .What the F%$%@$$%@#%&$*#@$ K is going on ?

We lose a great man and substitute him with a guy who is not even eligible to coach the third division cos all he has is a piece of flimsy paper typed hundreds of years ago .

Hey guys read the story I wrote in the last post’s thread !

And also let’s wait to see what grant does, once the egos of super-paid guys collide in the dressing room ,on the training ground and when they’re injured or left out of the first team.Or when they’re 2 down to Liverpool at half-time
Then :
We shall see if he’s got the right stuff !

I thought Chelsea would turn into a circus with revolving doors /dance of the coaches / players stuff
You know Scolari , Lippi Deschamps etc etc etc etc

You know real drama in the wake of JM’s departure

Now it’s the worst scenario possible it’s a pale-faced clown who doesn’t even have a B card to coach. God a third-rate B actor without even a union card !

But I am still a Chelsea fan !

( but also a JM fan and will follow his career , and hope he doesn’t replace old red face at ManU when the old geezer retires )

Joseholiday!

That was a great gesture (change of your nick) from you!

Guys

Let’s give Avram a chance. While we have no substantial proof from his past, we’ll never know about his future. Let’s see how he performs. Let’s not repeat the mistake of not supporting our manager in an unjustified manner. Blogs influence the media too. See what happened with the rumour on Arsenal signing Palacio.

When the newspapers and news websites say that ‘fans’ are right behind the coach or ‘fans’ want to oust the coach, the ‘fans’ that they are referring to, are the ones in the stadiums, the ones in the blogs and websites, they are you and me.

Let’s not start with a bad note. Let’s see what Avram can do. Roman would not allow his dream to go waste by a poor manager. While we can like or dislike his choice, we should respect his choice for he is the owner and he is the prime reason for our revival and he is a smart businessman.

I can say on behalf of the red half of manchester…..that we are glad that jose has left.i hated the man,hated his arrogance,his stupid one sided comments,his astonishing excuses.and just the way he made chelsea fc play….my god!how he rose the bar in english football!chelsea never played the prettiest football with jose…..but what he did do was instill a horrifying winning mentality(that was what bothered us opposition fans the most).bout the new boss avrham or whatever?looks like a dam puppet to me.to replace the charismatic and full of life jose mourinho with this boring avrham guy??anywayz i wont judge this terriblely looking book by its cover.but my bet is that hell last till the end of the season and hiddink,lippi,scolari or if the season goes terribly bad….jose mourinho might return!!see u lads tomorrow!!!!come on u reds devils!!!

Are drogba and lampard really out of tomorrows game??il wait for the team sheet….i hope hargreaves is not injured and that fergie lying. We need that rock in our midfield.

MORINIHO for england

Great coach for a great club had to leave…just keep it simple…if he is reinstated that would be the greatest day eva however thats not likely to change so its times like these that you separate the real fans from the clowns…back the club!!!! back the team…back the coach whoever he is…

Supporting the club and loathing the owner’s decisions are different things !

Mourinho’s gone,i felt like dyin bt all d same i’ll neva cease 2 b Chelsea fan

why do we always manage to shoot ourselves in the foot so often, i feel a Christian Grose moment coming. i can’t see this bloke lasting. good luck Jose.

YES YES YES. Time for the club to realise what a terrible foundation u have. How can chelsea hate roman??? what would u do without him. Now MR puppet is in control and I for one know that cuuuummmm sunday!!!AT OLD TRAFFORD Chelsea fans will have nothing on their minds but **** GRANTTT!!!

@JoseHoliday

i am eagerly waiting for the 2nd part of the story… nice buildup

Again I post the fable by popular acclaim :

Once upon a time a road-side dealer in blackmarket diesel struck it rich working with corrupt officials.
So he bought a Ferrari ,the best money could buy.
To look after it he got the best driver-cum mechanic around to tune it up and race it for him.
The driver-mechanic did so , but looking at the state of the roads and such, got the Ferrari going up only to a respectable 150mph.
But the blackmarket dealer wanted it to go up to 200mph with the roof off.
So they started to squabble about the car’s performance etc…

When the car started needing spare parts for repairs ,the owner bought over-priced second-hand stuff and told the driver-mechanic to use the stuff.

The mechanic did the best he could but one day the car was sputtering a bit so the former blackmarket dealer got angry.
And he sacked the mechanic.

Now he’s got his buddy from olden days, the bicycle flat-tire repair man to look after it.

To be continued………..

To be honest……………………i m in a shocked state……….disilluisioned and not in a right condition to think whether avram grant is suitable or not.
@Blue Champion
this was a similar trend in orkut…………..arsenal,man utd,liverpool fans were claiming how unjustified was our sugar daddy in ripping off the special one from cfc………….how grt he was as a manager……….and man utd fans who took no pains in abusing the arrogant man,have found suddenly jose as the best man who who can suceed SAF…………..irony isn’t it

@Everyone
joeblue and midfield_decider are off…………….they proved they are man utd fan…………they will come back if avram is somehow sucessful

im Truely Devastated at “the special ones’s” exit im going to watch the chelsea game at old trafford on sunday and im really worried the fellow travelling chelsea fans wont be as vocal as i will be!

i have already got my banner ready, it Reads “AVRAM OUT, with love the EPL” does any1 think thats appropriate???
i have chosen this as i think the way in which he wormed his way into the club was disgusting! he was always sat on jose’s shoulder (metaphorically) and even when he was first mentioned i did not want him here, no proven record and “success” with the issralie national team….so what??? when did they last win the world cup??? OR EVEN QUALIFY!!!!!
im disgusted that fat **************** (disgusting expletive) has joined our club, i hope he leaves as soon as possible!!!! id ather have alex ferguson managing us than him!!!!!

I found support and shock from rival fans too. The offside got loads of comments from rival fans.

SAF was class in his words and so was Wenger. As for Benitez, I didnt expect anything from him and we got nothing!!!

SAF was brilliant when he complained of not getting his special glass of wine from Jose!!! - Classic.

As Jose would say KEEP YOUR CHINS UP EVERYBODY and

KTBFFH

from the words of jose it is clear that he doesnt wish to come back to epl,

he may work on spain or italy……………

one thing is sure, from his qoute that “i am very very happy”,= he is not happy

JOSE dont go from epl…

my wish is to either you come back to CHELSEA(tats not gonna happen frm this kind of guy)…. or take in charge of any low profile club and make them win the EPL. you can do it.

ONLY YOU CAN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg3GY90vOSc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GMu1K1926c

enjoy….

TV update 1.

just to say Liverpool’s struggling against Birmingham. 0:0 65 mins gone….they are playing the elusive very attractive football… so attractive that I cant detach my self from the net.

Avram , why did you take such a thankless job ?
Doesn’t matter if your wife thinks you are special or not, just don’t put the old girl in too much grief OK , quit like Jose when it gets too untenable.

And also you say you are a ” normal one ” but I think you are a ” greedy one ”
Well remember I am ” a crazy one ” and you are gonna have to read my comments here whether you like or not.

And also Roman, big boy , you have given me grief and pain, not even thinking about us fans you did this.

Well I hope that you have to spend 200 million pounds a year, just to keep the club afloat and spend half your fortune on it in the long run and your younger kid reaches 16 soon and calls you a crazy old man for doing so !

I won’t be buying any of the club trinkets that PK tries to sell me either !

Too much has happened to a club that I love in the past few days.Roman Don’t play with the feelings of others like that again. We’re not like ur ex-wife to dissappear whimpering .

You owe us nothing now.

Although sudden exit, i beleive JM has left us with a winning mentality both as a team and fans. We surely have to move ahead as things were not working for him, and to be frank i’d rather lose JM than RA. with RA we may not have been able to afford JM let alone get out of the insolvency we almost entered under ken bates.

We surely don’t know AG but he has inherited a good squad and he seems to like attacking football more. Any coach that comes afterwards will always be compared to JM.

lets leave JM to the past and move on. enter AG and lets see your worth.

Although sudden exit, i beleive JM has left us with a winning mentality both as a team and fans. We surely have to move ahead as things were not working for him, and to be frank i’d rather lose JM than RA. with RA we may not have been able to afford JM let alone get out of the insolvency we almost entered under ken bates.

We surely don’t know AG but he has inherited a good squad and he seems to like attacking football more. Any coach that comes afterwards will always be compared to JM.

lets leave JM to the past and move on. enter AG and hopefully our players are professional enough to follow and change to the new man.

up blues up chelsea

3 mins extra time. still 0:0.

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

for the record, thats the 3rd draw in a row.

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

To All Manchester fans :
SOme of you said chelsea did nothing without Roman , I wonder if you guys are enought old ot know or have enough knolwdge to know, we beat manchester 5-2 , without Roman .
@ Blue Champion : you said we don’t know anythnig from history and we don’t know anythnig from the future , dude , so why did we choose Grant ? Roman himself could manage chelsea, we don’t know anythnig from Roman’s history and future , or how about me ?.
it is funny , becaseu we don’t know anythnnig from him we have to give him chance . Grant is the worst cooach among Gullit,Vialli,Raneir and Jose.

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.

Maysam , I am still trying to rationalise the whole thing. its not losing Jose. its not taking care to replace like for like. its the thoughtlessness, the cronyism, the asskissing from the board members (esp Buck and Kenyon). Maybe the criteria is that the coachmust be Israeli…no offence meant but how does other anything add up? The bugger does not even have a coaching license…………….disgraceful…and that is a club aiming to be eno.1 in the world. we will win feck all….

just how attacking were AV teams from his little past. His teams drew more games than were won (national team). how does that add up to an attack minded coach. i think that Roman needs to surround himself with his yes men and cronies and this is just the start.

PS:Anyone want to buy a CPO share?

Avram Grant CV

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).

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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).

Blame not Avramovich the lapdog- rather blame Abramovich the man who can not see beyond the tip of his football nose.

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???????????

we will probably see one of Abromovich relatives in chelsea line up , next to Sheva , maybe toman himslef, he is younge he can play,
we this season we screwed up , I hope they don’t rush they take theri time and bring a good coach.

said Grant at his first press conference in his new role. “I have my own philosophy but I respect everything that Jose Mourinho has achieved for this club. He made a lot of success and things were good but I believe I can make them better.”

—- 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 .

Thanks to friends he becomes a coach , not becasue of his quality.

* 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.

I read a good article about chelsea possibilities, which one do you think be done in chelsea?

2–
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.

1–
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.

3–
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.

screw you disgusting chelsea fans 1000000000000000000000-2

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.

what the … are manchester fans doing here , hey guys who can introduce me some manchester blog ?