Chelsea fires Avram Grant
It’s been a whole 3 days since Chelsea lost the Champions League final to Manchester United, but that’s all the time it took for owner Roman Abramovich to part ways with coach Avram Grant.
In a way, I feel bad for Grant. Ever since he took over the role from the mercurial Jose Mourinho in September, Grant’s days had been numbered. The club parts ways with one of the most well known and respected coaches, the self appointed “special one” (Mourinho) and hires in his place Avram Grant. Avram who? Fans didn’t like this switch one bit, players didn’t like this switch, and throughout the season it seemed as if even Chelsea’s top brass didn’t like this switch.
But Grant didn’t exactly get crushed by the pressure of instantly becoming the most scrutinized coach in the Premier League. The team did falter a bit after the exit of Mourinho, but that’s only to be expected. Grant helped orchestrate a turn around. He led Chelsea to the final of the League Cup, only to lose out to a fiery and well prepared Tottenham. He push Chelsea up the league table, and even after weeks of hearing that Manchester United had already won the league, Grant had Chelsea poised to take over top position on the very last day of the season, but United held on to win the league. Grant even managed to do something his predecessor could not, get Chelsea to the Champions League Final. Unfortunately, he lost that one too.
Maybe Avram Grant just doesn’t have that little extra magic it takes to be a coach that wins the big titles. Then again, maybe any old regular Joe could have done just as good as Grant; considering Chelsea has, by far, the best group of top class soccer players in the world at its disposal.
2nd in the league, 2nd in the league cup tournament, 2nd in Champions League. The message is clear, 2nd is not good enough.
So step up managers of the world, do you have what it takes to coach the mighty Chelsea FC?
Thoughts?
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