Sacked Chelsea boss Avram Grant feels proud of the way his team played in the closing months of last season.

"In the last three months in which I was manager people no longer called the team Boring Chelsea," he said. "If we had played at the start of the season the way we did in those last months we would have won the championship.

"I was told by the club that I had come in as part of building the future and my position was not dependent on achievements. Nobody expected we would win anything, because I was given the club when we were fifth in the league and had drawn at home to Rosenborg in the Champions League.

"Nobody believed that we could even finish second or reach the Champions League Final in Moscow.

"But the target I set myself was to at least reach the Champions League Final because a team that invests so much money should at least reach the final."