By G9ija
Ashley Cole ignores Jose Mourinho from the list of favourites Chelsea managers.
The 38-year-old who recently joined Derby County picked Scolari and Ancelotti as his best coaches at the club.
Cole spent eight years at Stamford Bridge and was part of the team who won the Champions League title in 2012 Former Arsenal defender Ashley Cole has named Luiz Felipe Scolari and Carlo Ancelotti as his best Chelsea coaches.
The 38-year-old spent eight seasons (2006 – 2014) with the Blues – winning one Champions League, Europa League and a Premier League title each among other domestic trophies.
Meanwhile, despite playing under Jose Mourinho for three seasons at the Stamford Bridge, the Portuguese tactician does not fit into the bill of the defender’s top managers at the club.
“I enjoyed Scolari and Ancelotti, probably my favourite two. I think Scolari [is my favourite], he came at a time when I wasn’t playing as well as I knew I could when I first came to Chelsea – I wasn’t the Ashley Cole they knew at Arsenal. he said.
“He came and he brought this new lease of life, it was like playing for Brazil.
He had me bombing up and down against players like Jamie Carragher, with [Jose] Bosingwa on the other side.
We had no rules, we could go where we wanted, left and right backs going at the same time.
We were playing great football, but by December it had petered out and he got the sack.
Cole, who joined Derby County at the start of 2019 from Major League Soccer side LA Galaxy however believes that the current Chelsea side have all it takes to succeed with Eden Hazard to be at his best. He is up there in the top three or four [I’ve played with].
When he gets on a pitch on a Saturday afternoon, he’s electric. He is a big player for them and you need him to keep firing on all cylinders.
READ ALSO: NAIJ.com upgrades to Legit.ng The former England defender also disagrees with Jamie Carragher who thinks Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri is under pressure at the club.
Cole said on Sarri: “I don’t think he’s under pressure. He’s trying to put his philosophy on it.
I watched Sarri-ball in Italy and the football they played is amazing. “It’s different now but I think it boils down to confidence.
They had the confidence to play out of the back. Some of the Chelsea players have to get with it sooner rather than later.” When asked about Chelsea changing their manager regularly, Cole insisted that it was all about winning.
He said: “You’re there to win. We took probably one of the greatest managers ever [Jose Mourinho] and two years after I had arrived he was getting the sack.
I think the chairman [Roman Abramovich] has been great. Chelsea are currently fourth on the Premier League table with 50 points from 25 matches and will hope to qualify for Champions League at the end of the season.
It’s understood that former Chelsea defenders Ashley Cole has completed a transfer move to Championship club Derby County.
The 38-year-old ex England international will now be under his old teammate at Chelsea Frank Lampard who is presently the gaffer of Derby County.
Cole had been plying his trade in America at MLS club LA Galaxy for the last three seasons including as captain last year.