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Loved him when he was with us. 50 goals, and our top scorer 1999 season. Remember his hatrick against the yids ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ted/7291280.stm

If they do he said he'll go in The Guardian today; "If I feel I'm not doing my job to take Chelsea forward or if someone tells me I'm not doing my job I would not be here," said Grant. "The minute I believe I can't take the team forward or someone else tells me that, I'll accept it.'' Bye then.

Apart from most of his comments not making sense, he's clearly taking the piss with others. ''Their emabarassing defeat'' -talking about the players, Oh I see, nothing to do with him then . ''I came here to take this team forward and that's what I'm going to do." Crawling to Abramovich on the phone straight after, I can imagine ''it was them Roman, they let us down''-what a shyster. ''Any loss at Chelsea is like a World War'' Can we have that with a mini holocaust then ?

From The Independent Sport Grant denies feeling heat after Cup humiliation New, higher mesh fences were being erected around Chelsea's training ground deep in the Surrey countryside yesterday, but any suggestion of a siege mentality at the club following their shock FA Cup defeat by Barnsley was swiftly allayed by the comments of their manager, Avram Grant. The man whose future is being questioned just six months after he took over from Jose Mourinho came out fighting, insisting he was taking Chelsea in the right direction and adding that the players had responded positively to their "embarrassing" defeat. Having lost just four of his 38 games in charge, the first of them, at Manchester United, just a few days after filling the void left by Mourinho, Grant strongly defended himself against any suggestion that he was not able to motivate the players sufficiently for big games – a notion that has been raised in the wake of last month's Carling Cup final defeat by Spurs. "We are very disappointed to have lost on Saturday, even if we're in good company with the other 18 clubs in the Premier League who have gone out," said Grant, who clearly feels that Chelsea earn a disproportionate amount of media coverage in defeat compared to rivals such as Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool. "I'm not under any more pressure than I was before, and I'm not under any less. Any loss at Chelsea is like a world war. But you can look at it from a negative side, or from a positive. "We won nine games in a row but I still told you it was impossible that we'd win every match. I've spoken with the players. They're very disappointed. I told them I took the responsibility. They said they took the responsibility also. "The players were very hurt. They're very proud, and it was embarrassing losing a game like that. But it doesn't happen very much for us. We've won 80 per cent of the League and Champions League games. "In the Cup, you can't fix it if things don't go for you. You're out. I want to win a trophy this season. I wanted it before. The pressure to win trophies is better than the pressure at the bottom of the League. I don't want that. This is a good life. But it's more than this. It's about taking the team forward. We're doing a good job here, winning a lot of games and playing a lot of good matches. "We need to be more consistent but, sometimes, when you change to a different style of football there are problems in the way." Grant confirmed that he had spoken to the club's owner Roman Abramovich, in the wake of Saturday's quarter-final defeat. "He was disappointed, like all of us," Grant said. "No more than this. I'm not thinking about this. I'm in a big club. "A big club doesn't change targets because we've lost matches or we win nine games in a row. We share the same vision. I came here to take this team forward and that's what I'm going to do."

''Hi my name is Avi, I have yellow teeth and my breath might have a feint whiff of urine, but power is an aphrodisiac -you know you want to really'' http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/77714504.jp...84831B75F48EF45

T'was a good prog. Slightly off track, but of the same era, ITV 4 are screening 'The Big Match' early and mid eighties games, with the late Brian Moore. Thing is the wankers tend to screen them on Thursday daytime. This month it's games from 1983, Mickey Hazard etc Quite funny the commentary, and when it kicks off in the crowd, the camera actually pans onto the terraces

Theres seems a consensus amongst the media that Lampard, Drogba, Haim, Sidwell, Cudicini, Pizarro, are all on their way. Some saying Lampard to go for as little as £6 million, which is a joke but then again we let players like Duff go for next to nothing. Diego is a really good player and would be a good replacement if its all true.

Oy Vey Eddie, we've a very special car for you, moneys a bit tight you see...

If thats 'big' I feel sorry for his missus

Chelsea PR. Even the band played on when the Titanic was going down.

Tend to think there will be a bit of a demolition, and the Toad can get away with any team, or subsitutions more or less.

If we give Eddie McCreadie that car now, he may come back.

Yup Coca Cola is the new way forward.

Well I would have thought Grant would want to keep Ten Cates. He makes Grant look slim and butters his bagels. His two new assistants from Israel - Hymie 'bibs' Goldstein and Ronnie'cones' Levy will bring the exciting football. They'll take us to a new level.

The words 'stitched' and 'up' spring to mind

Lol All we have is hope, sadly the club couldn't give a flying fuck about the fans so we'll see. Dont like the idea of Grant mumbling about two more Israelis to help him though.

I've emailed the club about Lampard, not expecting a reply though from [email protected]

From the Independent. This is worrying. 'Glorious failure' may save Grant as Ten Cate is warned about conduct By Jason Burt Tuesday, 11 March 2008 The pressure is on the Chelsea manager Avram Grant to try to save his job but the role of his assistant, Henk ten Cate, is under equal scrutiny at the club. There has been an angry reaction to the coach's outburst over the weekend when he spoke to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf and accused players of "deliberately leaking stuff" to the British media. Relations between Ten Cate and the players have been strained for some time and that erupted before the Carling Cup final in his row with John Terry over his treatment of midfielder John Obi Mikel and his own selection for the match. Now the Dutchman is understood to have been told, by the club's board, that he must toe the line in future. It adds to the strained atmosphere at Chelsea with Grant effectively on warning that he needs to win either the Premier League or Champions League to save his job. However, "glorious failure" may suffice especially as the owner Roman Abramovich is keen to have the Israeli in place for the start of next season. The Russian billionaire, however, understands that it would be foolish to stick with Grant if results are poor and the manager appears to be out of his depth. However, he will give him every chance of succeeding although the so-called "Dutch faction", which includes Chelsea's head of youth development Frank Arnesen and the unofficial scout Piet de Visser, are believed to be sceptical as to whether Grant can succeed. If he does carry on, there is likely to be a major overhaul of the squad this summer, starting with last year's free signings – Juliano Belletti, Tal Ben Haim and Steve Sidwell – and including Florent Malouda, who cost £13.5m from Lyons, and Carlo Cudicini. The futures of Frank Lampard, with one year left on his contract, and Didier Drogba are also in some doubt, as both are "big personalities" in a dressing room that may need to change. Grant may also try to bring in an Israeli coach to work alongside him. The two names mentioned by sources are Eyal Lachman and Ronny Levy. Lachman works for the Ghanaian club champions, Hearts of Oak, and it is thought that he has already done some scouting for Chelsea. Levy is with the Israeli club Maccabi Haifa. Let Ten Cates take the blame, and get in another useless Jew. Brilliant. At this rate I'm going to be seeing more of Bristol City

They say it gets darkest before the dawn, but if this is true, its beyond a fucking joke now ! From The Independent; 'Grant may also try to bring in an Israeli coach to work alongside him. The two names mentioned by sources are Eyal Lachman and Ronny Levy.' Its in the Guardian as well; 'Grant would like to bring in another coach this summer, one from his native Israel'

La Liga - Blues eye La Liga defender Eurosport - Tue, 11 Mar 10:53:00 2008 Chelsea are reported to have lodged a bid for Uruguay international defender Martin Caceres, who is currently on a season-long loan at Recreativo Huelva from Villarreal. More Stories La Liga fixtures and resultsLa Liga tableThe 20-year-old centre half signed for Villarreal last year on a five-year contract after impressing in the World Youth Cup and they opted to send him on loan to help him adapt to life in Spain. But Caceres' form has already interested some of Europe's big guns, with Real Madrid and Chelsea said to waiting in the wings. Real made an enquiry, but before they had a chance to take it further Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich reportedly stepped in with a 10 million euros (£7.6 million) bid, which was rejected by Villarreal. Caceres's current buy-out clause stands at 20 million euros (£15.2 million) which neither Chelsea or Real are likely to go to, but the Premier League side have not given up and are keeping tabs on the player.

Ahh that valuable post. Who's currently fulfilling that role ? Abramovich has had the wool pulled over his eyes with Grants appointment, I expect Kenyon and Buck are whispering in his ear now, but they're just as implcated in this shambles.

As soon as he was 'Director of Football' Mourinho was a dead man walking. Now hes wasted our time, our money, the clubs time, Abramovichs and possibly some Chelsea careers. A case for the restoration of the death penalty if ever there was one.

Glad you've come to that conclusion . Weadled his way in, and rode the Chelsea wave doing fuck all. Now all we can hope is that he fucks off before the rot really sets in. .

I know its News of the Screws, but says he was fit http://blogs.notw.co.uk/sport/2008/03/lampard-future.html Also look at the letter from the Maccabi fan underneath

Hopefully -though scanning other forums I'd say it's about 60/40 want him out. Come on Avi, do the decent thing. You're payoff will be around £10 million . Oy Vey,