LONDON, May 28: Avram Grant insists Chelsea would have won the Premier League if he had been in charge from the start of the season.

Grant was sacked on Saturday after just eight months of being in charge as the Israeli paid the price for Chelsea’s first campaign without silverware for four years.

But Grant is convinced he would have been able to overhaul Manchester United if he had taken over from Jose Mourinho sooner.

By the time he replaced Mourinho last September, Chelsea were already lagging behind the leaders in fifth place.

“If Chelsea had played at the beginning of the season like they did at the end then they would definitely have been champions of England,” Grant told the Sun.

“Over the last three months of the season with me working as manager, we were never called boring Chelsea.

“No one expected Chelsea to win things because when I took over, the team were fifth and had just been held to a Champions League draw by Rosenborg.”—AFP