Should Chelsea manager be surprised that his massive squad of world-class players are challenging for title?
May 6, 2008
After all, the Blues have quality all over the park. Chelsea’s second string would probably finish sixth or seventh in the Premier League, so why have Avram Grant’s expectations been exceeded by his team’s strong finish to the season, which could mean a domestic-European double this season?
Look at the players he has at his disposal! Perhaps Arsene Wenger should be the man that is making the below sort of quotes, considering the smaller squad and the terrible luck with injuries that Arsenal have experienced in the past few months. To hear Grant speak (through the medium of Sky Sports), anyone would think he was manager of Aston Villa or Everton.
“From day one our target was to be in the Champions League final and to improve our game,” he said.
“We’ve done more than I even expected, so we want to believe the season will end well and we will fight to the last minute.
“United have had a fantastic season. They’ve been champions many times before but this year we have given them a good battle and it is not finished yet.
“Even if they win the title on goal difference you must give my team respect.”
Hmmm, can’t see many neutrals ‘respecting’ Chelsea for their achievements, particularly as their success is down to a Russian billionaire deciding to pick them as his pet project and investing hundreds of millions to ensure that they become one of the world’s leading clubs and brands. Surely, Everton, Villa, Portsmouth and Sunderland deserve more respect for having decent seasons, while Stoke and West Brom should also be praised for scrambling out of the Championship without having a bottomless pit of cash.
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Great isn’t it Matt you prikkkkkkkkkkkkk
100% agreement with this article, who does he think he is playing the sympathy card
oh poor me, I’ve turned things around by playing the most tediously dull football with a squad full of overindulged paycheck players with a squad value of only £255 million
I could manage that squad and get them to the champions league final, so demanding “respect” for achieving something that they would never have managed prior to Abramovich is lunacy
At least Mourinho bought the players in the first place (not that it did them any favours, Shaun Wright Philips anyone?)
In Grant deserves to be respected on the basis of what he has achieved with the resources available…. absolutely nothing that anyone else wouldn’t have been able to achieve, with the added bonus Chelsea are now the least interesting team to watch on the planet
Precisely. They sound like they were expecting to finish in the bottom 3!! You don’t earn respect by asking for it.
Matt you are the biggest knob end. Chippy, chippy chippy knob end.
chippy chippy knob end
It simply is not fair. I thought it was all agreed that Man Utd should win the premiership this year. After all we are the prettiest team in the league and Curbishley say we really should win and everyone knows he is an expert . Nobody told us that we would have to go to Wigan and win –awful prawn sandwiches there– and not a crowd we should really have to associate with. Then we have to go to Moscow to play that foreign club from London, I can’t understand why we cannot play that game at Old Trafford particularly since we can easily provide the ref.
SAF- Im so sorry Liverpool didnt make it to Moscow, its just that ur shite. Sour faced knob.
Rumour has it that Bolton will be sending the ladies team down to give Chelski the best possible opportunity of winning the game without having to rely on Roman paying a visit to “see” the referee before the match
I’m wearing a pretty little summer frock today with my pink ballet pumps. SAF, you’re a retard, you should wear girlie clothes like me then you’d be cool and feel great.
who is this stupid fool pretending to be me -i’m not a tranny, i am a transgender weirdo
I like wearing stockings and suspenders - but no dresses.
i’m so effeminate that i’m flimsy, diaphanous and ethereal
Oh WHY was I born a bloke?!!!
Children, please stop you arguing will make Ronaldo fall over!
Penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty!!!!!
ha ha ha ha ha ha ronaldo - he wears strappy stilettoes…. just like mine!
Hi
As Liverpool didn’t qualified the Champions League Final, we are not going to Moscow, so tickets are open to offers:
Category 1 & Category 2 (Tribune A, Section 7).
Cheers,
Ron
liverbul{at}gmail.com
Ron would love to buy your tickerts but just can’t be sure their not forged.
He should be surprised because he’s shit
At the end of the day Man Utd will probably win the title on goal difference. This really illustrates the importance of having a consistent standard of refereeing in the Premiership. The FA should stop grand announcements about what they are going to do for the future of the game and concentrate on getting referreeing sorted out in the league.
As a Spurs supporter I could scarcely want Chelsea or Arsenal to win the league but the reality is Chelsea should have won it. Utd benefitted from such weak refereeing as it takes a strong ref to give decisions against them because of their historic status and bellicose manager. In the game against Spurs at WHL at least two of the Utd players should have been off for their continual harassment of the ref for decisions against them, harassment that was considerably more agressive that subsequently highly publicised instances later in the season. Utd consequently stole a point at the end as a result and that will probably clench the title The final irony is that SAF then publicly demanded respect for refs!!.
The moral is that officiating has to be fair, strong and consistent otherwise the results becomes a mockery.