[football] walk side by side

As Chelsea's performance gradually stabilized, Abramovich also seemed to feel that the head coach who was temporarily brought in by him still had two brushes.This allowed Grant to change from a "Chelsea interim head coach" to a full-fledged head coach, and it was officially announced that he had signed a three-year contract with Afrahan Grant.

Due to the team's overall performance is good, and the state is gradually getting on the right track, therefore, at this time, Chelsea's dressing room is relatively peaceful.

However, this short period of peace did not last long.

After the winter transfer window, Chelsea once again introduced Anelka and Ivanovic, but it was these two new aids that became the fuse of the chaos in Chelsea's dressing room.

On the forward line, Shevchenko has an unusual relationship with Abramovich. He wants to say anything. As Chelsea’s meritorious player in recent years, Drogba has played a role in several heavyweight champions of Chelsea. Possibly accepting the position of substitute, the new striker Anelka would have been a big thorn...

Edur Gudjohnsen was originally a striker, but as time went by, his position in Chelsea has become more and more deep, a good striker, and gradually became an attacking midfielder, and later, even Being reduced to a defensive midfielder is simply intolerable for a player who loves to attack and shoot.

On the defensive line, Ivanovic is also full of fire. Among the teams that paid attention to him at the beginning, there are many rich teams. He is willing to come to Chelsea. Over the past few years, Chelsea's overall performance is still quite good because of it, but what is it now?

Not to mention, he has been left in the reserve team by Grant since he came to Chelsea!

Ivanovic has nothing to say about this. Since he is not going to use him at all, why does the Israeli coach buy him?He bought it but didn't use it, and threw it to the reserve team repeatedly. How much does this head coach hate him?

If Grant was a head coach with a tough and cruel style like Mourinho and a lot of honors, these players might still be obedient and not say anything... But what is he Grant?

A head coach who has never won a top league title deserves to torment them like this?

Such a series of contradictions made Chelsea's dressing room more irritable and dangerous, and Grant himself was not good at speaking, which made the coach almost become a punching bag for Chelsea players.

As the two players with the highest status in the dressing room, John Terry and Frank Lampard watched this with cold eyes. Frankly speaking, even Lampard, who has always been good-tempered, doesn't like this coach very much. In the midfield position, both of them prefer Drogba and Cyril, who have been working together for nearly three years. Grant's choice made the two also have complaints. It was only for the team that they did not do anything to Grant. Just an act of rejection.

This bad, chaotic state reached its peak when Chelsea were out of the League Cup——

Whether they were kicked out by Manchester United or Arsenal, they can still understand... But what about the facts?They lost to Barnsley!A Championship team!

A team ranked in the top three in the Premier League lost to a Championship team!

This defeat made Chelsea the laughing stock of the entire Premier League without any suspense. Abramovich was going crazy about it. He immediately gave Grant an ultimatum-"If you don't win the championship this season, get out!"

But these have nothing to do with Cyril.

He was sent to the reserve team, and now his daily routine is training, extra training, and participating in the Premier League reserve team.The smoke of the first team seems to have been ruled out of his life.

"Without Slade, without Ivanovic, Shevchenko is in such a poor state and still uses him all the time. Will this head coach really know how to direct the game?"

It has to be said that fans are often such a kind of creature-they can ignore all kinds of things when the team is going well, and once the team loses again and again, their accusations will follow.Victory can make people ignore many things, and failure can also make people start to care.

This kind of complaint reached its peak after Chelsea once again lost 0-1 away to the local super giant Fenerbahce in the Champions League. At the same time, the Chelsea reserve team won this year's reserve league championship.

"I think it's better to exchange the reserve team with the first team..." Powell complained, and sat down holding the Chelsea flag. For these fans, complaints are nothing but complaints, and the home team still has to support them.

"Isn't it!" The fan sitting next to him muttered: "I don't know when I can see Cyril on the court... If there is Cyril, what are Fenerbahce and Barnsley? !” He is still brooding over the loss to the Championship team.

While they were muttering under their breath, the players also entered the field.

"Here is the quarter-finals of the 2007/2008 UEFA Champions League. Chelsea played at home against the local giants Fenerbahce. In the last round, Chelsea lost to Fenerbahce with a score of 0-1. If Fenerbahce cannot be reversed in this game, Chelsea will miss the final again this year."

Jimmy's commentary is relatively simple and concise, and does not involve other topics. Instead, his partner commentator Walker said a few more words about Chelsea recently: "Chelsea's overall state is relatively poor recently, and this game may be dangerous. The only good thing is that Grant seems to have finally realized the importance of Slade in this series of failures. Cyril Slade, who just led Chelsea to the reserve league championship a few days ago, finally returned Returned to the roster once and was included in the substitute list for this game."

At the same time, the fans quickly spotted the familiar figure appearing on the bench.

The big screen in the stadium was also transferred to Chelsea's bench. As if realizing something, Cyril raised his head and smiled shallowly in the direction of the camera.

"Ahhhhhhh!! Today's male god is too! Special! Don't! Handsome! Thank God! Grant finally realized the importance of Cyril to Chelsea!"

"Don't be too happy, Cyril is on the bench, what if Grant still refuses to play for him?"

In the home stands of Stamford Bridge, there was a burst of cheers because of Cyril's appearance. Although Cyril was only sitting on the bench, for some reason, the Chelsea fans felt a lot more at ease, as if as long as there was Cyril I am here, Chelsea will not lose.

In fact, the mentality of Chelsea fans is not unfounded-after Grant’s disastrous defeat against Manchester United because of abandoning Cyril, some good media specially counted the small data and found that in Cyril Chelsea had the highest winning percentage in the games where Grant played, to prove the stupidity of Grant abandoning Cyril.

Seemingly indifferent on the surface, in fact, he had already quietly watched the reactions of the fans in the stands. Grant slightly lowered his eyes, which were inexplicably obscure.

It's not that he doesn't know the importance of Cyril to Chelsea, it's just Abramovich's wish, and he can't go against it.

And this game...

The Chelsea boss is in a terrible mood when he thinks back to his dressing room of late.

Being silent and having a good temper does not mean that Grant has no temper. During this period of time, the low pressure inside the locker room, the players finding faults, and not cooperating, made Grant feel angry as well, and Abramovich said "" Get out if you don't win the championship this season!" Grant simply broke his can!

If he can't win the championship, he will leave. If that's the case, why should he compromise?Simply arrange it according to his own wishes. As for those thorns, only one day when he is the head coach of Chelsea, he decides the team's quota one day!

The inclusion of Cyril in the big list is not only because the team really needs Cyril, but it also means that Grant is protesting to Abramovich in disguise.

You want Shevchenko to play, okay.You don't want to see Cyril, no problem.It took a lot of mental work to get Ashley Cole, and that's okay.Chelsea will become like this, isn't there any reason for you to intervene repeatedly?

Full of unwillingness and annoyance, Grant sat on the coach's bench in silence.

At first, he sat firmly on the coach's bench, silently watching the situation on the court, but soon he stood up, frowning.

Chelsea did not play well on the offensive line. The connection between the midfield and the frontcourt was intermittent, and they were still unable to play any effective offense.The forwards don't get enough support in the frontcourt. Joe Cole is more inclined to attack by himself than to pass the ball. Although Lampard can also make wonderful passes, his overall organization is confused and unclear.

This is actually an old problem of Chelsea. In the previous leagues, most of Chelsea's draws and losses were due to this reason. From the root cause, it will become like this, and it is also caused by Cyril's absence. After getting used to Cyril's organization, for the Chelsea players, this is like letting people who are used to eating big meals suddenly have to eat coarse grains, and they are not used to it.

Grant rubbed his temple roughly, looking hesitant.

He was thinking about whether to replace Cyril.

Putting Cyril on the bench does have the idea of ​​replacing him when necessary, but more, Grant actually wants to use Cyril to demonstrate to Abramovich.

In other words, he doesn't really want to fight Abramovich if he can.

but……

"GOOOOOOOAL! Fenerbahce scored the first goal! Now the total score is 0-2, Chelsea is in danger! Chelsea's frontcourt is a bit messy now, and there will be disjointed running positions from time to time. If Slade is on the court, Chelsea Probably wouldn’t be like this, would it?”

There was a sigh in Walker's voice, and he said bluntly that in the past three years, Cyril has used his strength to conquer the entire Premier League, and even many other European giants. The reserve team, many football-related people feel sorry for this.