Carlo Ancelotti
Ancelotti is the most decorated manager in the game, the Italian having lifted the Champions League on no fewer than three occasions. After spending two years at Stamford Bridge (which in and of itself takes some doing), he also has experience of the Premier League.
The Italian is not considered a brooding tactician like Pep or Simeone as much as he is an affable man manager; one capable of taming even the most ego-ridden dressing room. And he has the resume to prove it: it took him one season to do what Mourinho couldn’t do in three when he lifted the Champions League with a Real Madrid side that looked on the brink of full-on mutiny just twelve months earlier.
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It’s not entirely fair to overlook the Bayern coach’s ability on the training ground, either. While he has primarily worked with polished world-beaters – and, in some cases, bona fide legends of the game – he also had a huge hand in turning Kaka into one of the world’s best players, and (not to labour the point) it was him, not Jose, who found the right balance between defence and attack at the Bernabeu.
After twenty years of a control freak (we mean that in the nicest possible way) like Wenger, a less hands-on figure like Ancelotti could be exactly what Arsenal are looking for, and it just so happens that the Italian is reportedly keen to come back to England once he’s ran his race in the Bundesliga.