Carlo Ancelotti remains out of work after being sacked by Bayern Munich in September.The Italian manager, 58, can expect to be targeted in the summer, with the Evening Standard reporting in January that Arsenal will make a move if Arsene Wenger leaves at the end of the season.But it’s worth any club reading what German journalist Raphael Honigstein said about Ancelotti’s methods in the wake of his Bayern dismissal.“Neither the club nor the players are 100 per cent convinced Ancelotti takes them further,” Honigstein said on BBC Radio 5 live.“You go to a training of Ancelotti, and it looks like a training I used to do on a Monday night, where the coaches say ‘okay run around a bit then it’s 11 v 11’.“Most players would say ‘that’s great, that’s fun’. After three years of [Pep] Guardiola, when players sometimes came off with a headache, because they couldn’t deal with all the instructions, but they felt ‘hey, I’m actually becoming a better player, I see things I’ve never seen before, I’m being explained to do stuff that never occurred to me, I’m being shown spaces, I’m being shown positions’.“Players want to be improved. Every single player improved under Guardiola. And every single player has not improved under Ancelotti - it’s just a manager who doesn’t do much.“And that’s not enough for this Bayern team.”Guardiola’s achievements this season at Manchester City are evidence of football’s changing landscape, where players are being made to work harder than ever.Honigstein’s comments are rather pertinent now, for Ashley Cole has given further thought to the idea that Ancelotti isn’t much of a tactician.“Ancelotti was my kind of manager,” Cole, who played under the Italian at Chelsea, said.

“He said, ‘You don’t need much coaching. Just go out and play.’”

Cole has responded after getting some heat

The former Arsenal and England left-back hasn’t been overly critical of Ancelotti; he simply needed to expand on what he said.

And he’s done just that on Twitter.

“No no no 😳 my comments about Carlo ancelloti you guys are not understanding, do you really think he has no tactical ideas?,” he wrote after attracting some heat.

“He has won everything, I was saying he was the best for me because he knows how to get the best out of a team and players please understand.”

That makes much more sense.