Chelsea News: "I loved Scolari and Ancelotti" – Cole confides Mourinho to the list of his favorite managers

Ashley Cole has named Luiz Felipe Scolari and Carlo Ancelotti as his two favorite managers in which he will play for Chelsea.

Cole, who now plays under Frank Lampard in Derby County, played with Chelsea from 2006 to 2014, winning the Premier League in 2009-10, while winning four FA Cups, a Champions League title. and a crown of the Europa League.

Jose Mourinho was Cole's manager for three of those seasons at Chelsea, but Scolari and Ancelotti were singled out as the two most comfortable defenders, while the defender had only seven months to go. his charge before being sacked.

"I loved Scolari and Ancelotti, probably my two favorite ones," Cole said. Sky sports.

"I think Scolari [is my favourite]He came at a time when I was not playing as well as I knew when I first arrived at Chelsea – I was not the Ashley Cole they knew at Arsenal.

"He came and he brought this new life, it was like playing for Brazil.He bombarded me up and down against players like Jamie Carragher, with [Jose] Bosingwa on the other side.

"We did not have rules, we could go where we wanted, left-handers and back-sides were going at the same time, we were playing good football, but in December, things had deteriorated and there was had been fired. "

Following a suggestion by Jamie Carragher that Chelsea's current director, Maurizio Sarri, is under pressure, Cole does not agree.

The Blues rebounded after a 4-0 defeat at Bournemouth to overtake Huddersfield 5-0.

Cole thinks Sarri will bring Chelsea where the club needs to be as long as the team continues to follow his tactics.

"I do not think he's under pressure, he's trying to put his philosophy forward." "I watched Sarri-ball in Italy and the football they played is incredible," he said. Cole.

"It's different now, but I think it's a matter of trust, they had the confidence to play in the back.

"Some Chelsea players need to be familiar with it as soon as possible."

Cole says he hopes Sarri can stay for reasons of consistency, but also understands that any manager who supports Chelsea is under considerable pressure.

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"You are here to win, we have probably taken one of the greatest managers of all time [Jose Mourinho] and two years after I arrived, he was getting the bag, "said Sarri.

"I think the president [Roman Abramovich] was great. "