GRANT: READY FOR MANCHESTER UNITED

Chelsea's new first team coach, Avram Grant, has said that he will have the Blues playing attacking football over the coming months.

The ex-Israel coach believes that entertaining, aggressive football is at the heart of Chelsea's future.

'I love attacking football, I think it's good,' he says. 'Football became entertainment in the last few years, more than before.

'It has always been like this but in the last few years it has become more than this when you see how the top clubs are playing.

'You can't always play good football though, but it's our ambition to play positive football that wins lots of titles.'

Grant also thinks that although he may not have a high familiarity with the Barclays Premier League, his accomplishments to date should represent his coaching credentials.

These include his time in charge of the Israeli national side, where he only lost six out of 33 games, and a World Cup 2006 qualification group stage where Israel finished unbeaten, narrowly missing out on qualification, which went to Switzerland and France.

'I know that unfortunately I don't have any experience of the English league,' he admitted.

'But I have visited the training of the big coaches in England more than five, six times a year, they are my friends, so nothing can surprise me and I will try to do my best.

'The last qualification for Israel, we were in a group with France and we scored more goals than them.

'In my years of football in the Israeli league I was always first or second in top scoring for goals.'

Grant also silenced critics who questioned his experience by comparing his arrival to that of other great coaches around the world.

'I don't know if people cannot expect me to be successful. But remember when Wenger came to Arsenal, everybody said Arsène who?

'I don't want to compare to him but he did a great job and no one knew him in the beginning. And Capello in Milan, he was a youth coach and no one knew what he was going to do.

'I am more than 50-years-old, I want to be younger but I can't but I have experience in football and I love football.'

The Manchester United game tomorrow will be his first in charge of the squad and Grant is fully aware of the challenge that he faces.

'To play against Manchester United at Old Trafford is always a difficult game, but I will not change my way so we will see.'