Avram Grant Hates Mondays
By: Daryl | November 20th, 2007
Avram Grant’s paperwork problems just got a little worse. Despite his 21 years of coaching experience, including winning titles in Israel and managing the national team for four years, Grant lacks the all-important UEFA Pro License. He was given special dispensation until around Christmas after initially replacing Jose Mourinho this season, but that honeymoon period is running out and UEFA want to see some action. So the Chelsea boss has signed up for a 90 hour course, which takes place Monday nights from January to March 2008. No problem. Except that Grant lives in London and the classes are in Tel Aviv.
They actually take place in an office at the Ramat Gan Stadium, where Israel did England a favour on Saturday by beating Russia 2-1. There are definitely worse places to visit if you’re a proud Israeli football manager. But imagine flying all that way to listen to things you probably already know, just so you can have an extra badge to sew onto your tracksuit. With Abramovich’s billions, Grant will likely be flying luxuriously (I’m guessing keys to the private jet?) but still.
As well as being a pain in Avram’s ass, the classes also pose genuine logistical problems for Chelsea. For example, what if they have a Tuesday Champions League game? Grant won’t be able to take training or even be around the day before the game. And when Chelsea play on Sunday afternoons he’ll basically have to head straight for airport when the final whistle blows. Maybe it will all work out, but my guess is that Grant will have a new found appreciation for Garfield before the end of the season.
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What, Roman couldn’t put a suitcase full of Euros on the table at UEFA HQ to get AG’s class to be held at the Israeli embassy in London Technically, an embassy is sovereign territory of the country in question, so AG would be taking the class in “Israel,” which is obviously a requirement in UEFA’s weird universe of rules.
Roman, you gotta show the love!
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Avram Grant go DIE!!!!!peter crouch are the best…your the worst!!!!DOG~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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 insanely accomplished and talented stars, if you allow this kind of group to run rampant without a countering force, you will end up with a deteriorating side that has been snowballing 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. He has no star quality, you cant have a man like this lead a star team.
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” mentality for a moment, humble yourself 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. Not to mention lack of emotion from the fans that keep this great club moving. 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. There will be a decision made some day that will turn sour, its just how life goes.
It takes a real man to admit when he is wrong, it takes an even bigger man to correct it.
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