Grant was a person who didnt had control of the players.. It was
like everyone disrespected him and there was no harmony involved..
You could see players coming out saying they were unhappy and
stuff, yes i wanted a big name and i thought scolari was the one,
at least it seemed so from the early stages but its only half
a season gone, he did change the way Chelsea plays football.
Grant when you looked at Chelsea playing under him, the players
was like on auto pilot mode, you rarely even see him shouting
directions to players or so, Barcelona is having a good run under
Guardiola, but then again he was also a former fan favourite at
Barca being a former player, and he's doing very well, but if there
was a string of bad results going his way suddenly, will people be
questioning his managerial position?
I was quite confident that a Jose side can beat Juve because
they're disciplined and hard to beat and besides this Juventus team
isnt one of the past where they were stronger and Rianieri is not a
manager i rate very highly either.
I am not sure about not having control of the players but last
season for those 7+ months that he was in charged, the Chelsea
players seemed to look more determined to me then they current
do...
I don't buy one minute that a team can be or stay in "auto-pilot
for that long a period... There are so many examples, Look at
Blackburn, they ended last season on 7 place
after Hughes left them, they started to go down... Now that
Big Sam took over they started winning again... Then there is
Portsmouth... We all know they were doing very well and even
winning the FA Cup. But since Harry left and Tony Adams took over,
they are no longer as good as they were...
So this auto-pilot thing really don't sell... I
am just amazed that Chelsea fans, I am not
referring to you but those who love Mourinho blamed
Grant for his sacking and whatever good he did for the club they
refuse to give him credit for it... This auto-cruise thing I am
afraid is just one more people will come up with to take-away the
incredible job Grant did last season.
On Barce's new manager... You are correct on one thing and that
is he was a former player. But never a top level manager, in fact
never manage another club side before... This is his first
real manager job you can imagine... Talk about big name... He is
like maybe Dennis Wise, no... maybe Chelsea's present reserved
manager at best....
And Barcelona is having a good run under him currently not out
of coincidence... There is certainly no auto-pilot there... He
started his job when last season ended... The decisions he has
to make like, persuading players who might wanted to
leave (Eto) to stay back and deciding to keep others like
Henry and Yaya too... At the same time getting rid of
those that was no longer good for the squad (Deco &
Ronny) ironically Scolari came to buy him...
On Juve and Ranieri, Ranieri is doing a great job now... 9 win
out of their last 10 is a great run. They had lots of injuries
early in the season and even now Buffon is still not back
yet... Whatever it is, when they meet I feel there is no clear or
easy winner. Either one could make it, just who gets more
lucky.
