{"id":408122,"date":"2011-04-29T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/29\/grant-unfazed-by-sullivan-fears\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T16:07:16","slug":"grant-unfazed-by-sullivan-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/29\/grant-unfazed-by-sullivan-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant unfazed by Sullivan fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"85.0485477178\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/efc97de0011566731-1.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Avram Grant \" \/> Grant took over as West Ham boss from Gianfranco Zola last summer<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>West Ham boss Avram Grant says he is not concerned that co-chairman David Sullivan believes the club have a &#8220;25% chance&#8221; of avoiding relegation.<\/p>\n<p>The Hammers are bottom of the the Premier League, two points from safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now we have four games to the end of the season and I don&#8217;t know how the chances are by percent, I am not a businessman,&#8221; said Grant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I can tell you, though, is that we have a good chance to stay and we will do everything to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>West Ham have lost their last four matches and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/eng_prem\/9470663.stm\">travel to fourth-placed Manchester City<\/a> on Sunday, prompting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham\/8481245\/West-Hams-spoilt-players-may-not-put-their-bodies-on-the-line-to-keep-club-up-says-David-Sullivan.html\">Sullivan to tell the Daily Telegraph:<\/a> &#8220;Obviously we are facing the reality that 70-75% we are likely to be in the Championship next year.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"24.6232394366\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/13244012.stm#skip_feature_02\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p>If you put the chances of us staying up four months ago the chances were 10%, so it always changes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Avram Grant<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;But there is still a 25-30% chance we won&#8217;t be. We have to be realistic. The bookmakers put our chances at 28% and you have to accept that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Grant said he had not seen the interview with Sullivan but remained bullish about his side&#8217;s prospects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t read it so I can&#8217;t tell you but David is a businessman,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think we have a chance to stay up. We are two points from the place that will keep us in the Premier League and of course we can do it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We showed that even we had less chances before we played well and took points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grant added: &#8220;If I say to you now there is a 51% or 32.5% chance, it doesn&#8217;t matter. It only matters in money because if he wants to give 25% more to the players if they stay in the league, it is OK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you put the chances of us staying up four months ago the chances were 10%, so it always changes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we take four points from the next two games the chances will be more than the current figure and it will continue like this until the end of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan also questioned the commitment of some of West Ham&#8217;s players, saying: &#8220;I&#8217;m sure a few of the players are already looking at where they will be next season &#8211; their contracts are up, they&#8217;ll be off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grant responded: &#8220;I can speak only about what I see. I could say yesterday in training, against Chelsea last weekend and the games before that the players are giving everything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course we can ask for more in quality but they are giving everything and the spirit is good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/efc97de0011566731-1.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13244012.stm\" title=\"Grant unfazed by Sullivan fears\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grant unfazed by Sullivan fears<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Grant took over as West Ham boss from Gianfranco Zola last summer West Ham boss Avram Grant says he is not concerned that co-chairman David Sullivan believes the club have a &#8220;25% chance&#8221; of avoiding relegation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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