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Grant reflects on broken promises
Portsmouth, 09:55, February 3, 2010 ,
Portsmouth boss Avram Grant has admitted his dismay at the ongoing uncertainty at the club but insists he will not quit his job.
Grant has had to work under increasingly difficult circumstances at Fratton Park as Pompey continue to struggle with serious cash-flow problems with the players yet to be paid their monthly salaries once again.
The former Chelsea boss was forced to sell Younes Kaboul and Asmir Begovic in the January transfer window to help balance the books - deals he did not sanction and he admits he has been let down by some club officials who he admits have not been able to deliver what they promised when he took charge.
Grant said: "I'm not a quitter and I'm not afraid of problems - for me a problem is a big challenge and I came here with a big challenge.
"But I'm very, very disappointed with the situation off the pitch and I'm very disappointed that people cannot do what they promised me."
Grant added: "When I came to the team, I knew the situation was not good with the football side, but they promised me everything was good with the financial side and that we would bring four players more.
"So we made a lot of progress on the football side. We took points and the team played good football - not worse than the teams in 10th or even eighth place.
"We showed a lot of character and were thinking about the next step - to stay in the league.
"We needed to bring in players so that the squad could be good, especially as we had a lot of injuries in the team.
"There was a lot of pressure on a very short squad and we didn't have time to let players who were coming back from injury ease their way back into the squad.
"We've had injuries, as we thought we would have, and instead of bringing in two players, we sold two players. I'm very disappointed."