Grant has been Portsmouth manager since November 2009

Avram Grant admits he is unsure of his future at relegated Portsmouth after a season beset by off-field problems.

The Portsmouth manager has had to deal with financial chaos, administration, a nine-point penalty and relegation, but still reached the FA Cup final.

And the 55-year-old admitted he could leave if the club was not to quickly find a more stable footing.

"I was many other things this season - I only want to be a football manager," Grant stressed.

"I was a financial manager, I was a lawyer. I won't do this for another season. This is not good either for me or for the club," added the Israeli, who will face his former employers Chelsea in the FA Cup final on 15 May.

"People have sympathy for us, but they don't know what it's like to work in the circumstances like we had this year. You don't know what's coming day-by-day. I don't want a career like this."

Grant, who succeeded Paul Hart last November, revealed last month that he had received other job offers, but felt he could not leave as "my heart told me to stay" at Fratton Park.

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He did, however, add that he has yet to hear concrete details from Portsmouth administrator Andrew Andronikou about the ongoing search for new owners with the club debt now in excess of £130m.

But Grant argued that the club's problems will not see them suffer long-term financial hardship as experienced by the likes of Wimbledon in the past, even as they face up to life in the Championship.

"I don't think it will happen. Wimbledon was a small team in a big town. Portsmouth represents a city, a very nice city, and people of passion. They will be behind the team and try to find a solution", he told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek.

"What happened to Portsmouth this season could happen to many other clubs, even in the Premier League. I want to think positive, I want to think that everything will be OK."

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