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Computerworld UK's Roundup (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Avram Grant was ousted at Chelsea after taking the club to within an ace of the Premiership and Champions League so perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised to hear that VMware is parting company with its CEO despite having become the most successful business technology startup of the last 10 years.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
As Chelsea won game after game following Jose Mourinho’s sacking, it was hard to explain to those who hadn’t experienced Avram Grant at first hand why the new man just wasn’t going to work out. It wasn’t that he wasn’t Mourinho, nor that he didn’t have much of a CV, and it had nothing to do with the football, because Grant’s Chelsea was as good and as efficient as his predecessor’s. The problem, and...
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TrulyReds.com (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
The Portuguese FA has officially appointed Queiroz as their next national team manager on a four-year contract. They were searching for a replacement for Luiz Felipe Scolari, after the Brazilian left to Chelsea. Scolari was named as Avram Grant’s replacement during Euro 2008 before Portugal knocked out of the tournament at the quarter-final stage. Manchester [...]
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
It may surprise Avram Grant, but Roman Abramovich has told a court that he keeps his nose out of running Chelsea. The Russian billionaire has appeared to have plenty of input at Stamford Bridge since he bought the club in 2003, but in legal papers filed as part of his “clash of the oligarchs” court battle with Boris Berezovsky, he claims that he is not involved in the day-to-day running of the club....
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Football Corner (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Phil Scolari is a bad appointment for Chelsea according to the readers of Football Corner. In a recent poll on the website, where the choices were; bad, great, good or brilliant, an astonishing majority of 30% deemed him to be a bad successor of Avram Grant. The results were as follows; Bad-145 (30%) OK-119 (24%) Good-102 (21%) Brilliant-122 (25) Total Votes 488 Personally I think that Chelsea could...
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CaughtOffside (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Talk about a fall from grace. One minute you’re in a high-profile managerial job, next thing you’re managing FC Twente. Anyway, enough about Steve McClaren as our story concerns Avram Grant, another manager who finds himself looking for a lesser post, after being axed by Chelsea at the end of last season. The Daily Mail report [...]