by Staff Writer
Monday, 26th January 2026
Former West Ham United manager Avram Grant has returned to the domestic game in a new role with Serie A's Juventus.
Grant, who managed West Ham for one season (2010/11) - a calamitous campaign which ended in West Ham United finishing bottom of the Premier League - has been hired as the Italian club's new Head of Football Operations, it has been confirmed.
Having previously acted as an advisor to Juventus, Grant - now 70 - takes on a much greater burden bearing the responsibility for overall management and development of the football club.
Designed to improve overall efficiency within Juventus, Grant effectively takes on the roles previously held by Dan McClory and Alberto Libanori, who were both previously the club's main point of reference for strategic choices.
Grant was hired by West Ham in June 2010 when new owners David Gold and David Sullivan sacked Franco Zola, who had kept West Ham in the Premier League the previous season against the odds.
Unfortunately for West Ham that proved to be the first of many major errors by the new administration, with Grant taking the club back into the Championship for the first time in eight years - a feat which ended up with him being sacked in the player's tunnel at Wigan Athletic and being told to make his own way home by Karren Brady.
The Hammers ended the campaign with only 33 points and finished 20th; Grant was replaced that summer by Sam Allardyce.
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