Source: Team_Talk
Grant: Things must change for me to stay
Avram Grant wants to remain as Portsmouth manager - but only if he can stick to running the team.[LNB] The former Chelsea boss, who will lead Pompey into the FA Cup final against the Blues on Saturday, has presided over a season which brought relegation in the wake of a nine-point deduction after the club entered administration with spiralling debts.[LNB]They could yet face further punishment in the Championship with their financial problems still a major cause for concern.[LNB]Grant's own future has been a topic of debate for some time, and while he admits he could leave, he is hoping to stay.[LNB]Asked on BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek show what his message to the club's fans would be, he said: "Tell them that I love them and I love the city. It's a love story.[LNB]"If I can work like a manager of football and only a manager of football and not like this year, when I needed to be a manager of football and many, many other things...[LNB]"I don't know if you know, I was a financial man, I was a lawyer, I was many other things.[LNB]"This I will not do one season more. I don't think it is a good idea, not for me, not for the club.[LNB]"But I want to think positively, I want to think everything will be okay. But people don't know what it is to work under the pressures we have had this year.[LNB]"Even though I know everybody has sympathy for us, they don't know what it is to come day by day and don't know what is the problem.[LNB]"When you come in every day and you don't know anything, I don't want it to be like this."
