if as per your way of putting it, the Grant should win the
league before X'mas right? since they had been the champion twice
before he took over..
things doesn't comes this simple, not only with its just new
players, the change in Manager does affect their generalo
performance too...
Nooo... All I am saying is when Jose arrived, the backbone of
the Chelsea squad were already there and playing together for
sometime already otherwise they wouldn't have came in 2nd... Even
Lampard, Duff and Crespo had their 1 year to gel with the
squad during Ranieri's last year... When they came in 2nd which
wasn't a bad result... They had that 1 year under their belts
already to gel with the squad, the rest had even more...
Why are we even talking about Grant? But if you want to look at
his track record, he inheritted a squad that lost the
title by 6 points and improve it to 2 last season and even took
them to within the CL title... All this despite he didn't even had
a pre-season or get his own signings...
All I am saying is your first post seemed to suggest that all
credit should have gone to Mourinho... But if you were to take a
closer look, how many new players did Chelsea had in Jose's first
team during his first year? Spurs on the other hand... From
Jun only, On record show they had 9 new players, and 6
are in the first team... How about those that came in Jan,
Woodgate, Hutton...
Jose deserve credit for taking them to the title but not the
kind of credit you are referring too...