Chelsea sack Grant

Chelsea have sacked manager Avram Grant after only eight months in charge at Stamford Bridge.

Grant has been under severe pressure in West London since replacing Jose Mourinho last September.

And the Israeli, who steered Chelsea to a second-placed Premier League finish, has now been handed his marching orders after the Blues ended the 2007/08 campaign without a trophy.

Grant's last game in charge of Chelsea was the UEFA Champions League final penalty shoot-out defeat to Manchester United on Wednesday.

A statement on the club's official website read: "Chelsea football club can confirm that Avram Grant has had his contract terminated today (Saturday 24th May). This follows meetings over the last two days.

"Everybody at Chelsea FC would like to thank Avram for his contribution since taking over as manager last September.

"We will now be concentrating all our efforts on identifying a new manager for Chelsea and there will be no further comment until that appointment is made."

The likes of Internazionale manager Roberto Mancini and Frank Rijkaard will now be strongly tipped to take over at Chelsea.


sky sports.com

This comes to no shock to me. As Bruce Buck said being runners up for 3 trophys is no good. I do hope the special one does return, if Chelsea makes an offer for him. There will be alot of changes within management and the players this reason. They are trying to reduce the number of players they have, since they've got a big squad. I've heard Abrahamovich is offering 100 million pounds for the new manager in the transfer window. Hopefully all these changes will be to the better.

Should be inteesting to see who we get as our new manager,Especially with the news that Roman and Jose have put all their diffrences aside and are talking again.....

I know that Frank Rijkaard, is now the odds on favorite to get the job,But i wonder what odds you would get on Jose coming back!!