Avram Grant has brushed off David Sullivan’s comments after the West Ham co-owner questioned the players’ commitment and survival hopes.<\/p>\n
The Hammers currently languish at the bottom of the Premier League after a four-game losing streak brought a sudden end to a mini-revival.<\/p>\n
West Ham’s form led to comments from Sullivan the club have a “25% chance” of staying up and are “likely to be in the Championship next year”.<\/p>\n
The Hammers have a mere four games to drag themselves away from the precipice and face a tough trip to Manchester City on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Despite this, Grant believes West Ham can pick up the points that will secure survival and refuted Sullivan’s comments.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t read it so I can’t tell you everything but David is a businessman,” he said.<\/p>\n
“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
“We showed that even we had less chances before we played well and took points.<\/p>\n
“Now we have four games to the end of the season and I don’t know how the chances are by percent, I am not a businessman.<\/p>\n
“What I can tell you, though, is that we have a good chance to stay and we will do everything to do it.”<\/p>\n
Grant believes his charges need nine points to secure survival but admits seven points could be enough.<\/p>\n
However, the former Chelsea and Portsmouth boss refused to put a percentage on their survival chances.<\/p>\n
“If I say to you now there is a 51% or 32.5% chance it doesn’t matter,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It only matters in money because if he wants to give 25% more to the players if they stay in the league, it is okay.<\/p>\n
“If you put the chances of us staying up four months ago the chances were 10%, so it always changes.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
Last weekend Grant’s side were beaten 3-0 at Stamford Bridge and now face a trip to Eastlands without key players such as Scott Parker, Mark Noble, Gary O’Neil and Wayne Bridge.<\/p>\n
The quartet have been some of West Ham’s key performers this season, while several other players have seemingly failed to live up their billing.<\/p>\n
Such performances led Sullivan to question whether the players care enough but Grant does not necessarily agree with the view.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think so. I didn’t read the article so I need to read it because sometimes it is translated not so good by the media,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But I can speak only about what I see. I could say yesterday, against Chelsea last weekend and the games before that the players are giving everything.<\/p>\n
“Of course we can ask for more in quality but they are giving everything and the spirit is good.”<\/p>\n
While Grant disagreed with several of his co-chairman’s sentiments, the Israeli manager did echo Sullivan’s comments on the Hammers fans.<\/p>\n
Sullivan said he felt sorry for the West Ham supporters and felt they had failed to deliver this season.<\/p>\n
“West Ham is a massive club and part of our vision is to stop fighting against relegation because West Ham did it too much in the last years and also this season,” he added.<\/p>\n
“This season we knew it would be difficult but of course we didn’t want to be in this place so we feel for the supporters.<\/p>\n
“We are doing everything for them to feel good and I think even the supporters know the players give anything.<\/p>\n
“They are behind us and if you saw the last game against Chelsea you heard them more than we heard the Chelsea supporters.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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