Carlo Ancelotti ‘sensed the Real Madrid sacking coming’ and says he ‘would like to work in England again.’
The 56-year-old was fired by the Spanish giants last summer and was linked to the Liverpool job before Jurgen Klopp took over at Anfield.
However, he reveals that there was ‘no contact’ with the Merseyside club before discussing his time in the Spanish capital.
“I would like to come back to work in England,” he told the Daily Mail.
Carlo Ancelotti ‘sensed the Real Madrid sacking coming’ and says he ‘would like to work in England again.’
The 56-year-old was fired by the Spanish giants last summer and was linked to the Liverpool job before Jurgen Klopp took over at Anfield.
However, he reveals that there was ‘no contact’ with the Merseyside club before discussing his time in the Spanish capital.
“I would like to come back to work in England,” he told the Daily Mail.
“I love the football here, I still have a house in London, and I would like to be with a team that is competitive in England and in Europe.
“I think Liverpool are a good team. They have some really good young players — Coutinho, Firmino, Benteke.
“If they can find an experienced player like Gerrard or Carragher — an example to the squad — I think they can be really competitive. But I did not speak with them. If I spoke with them I can say "yes", but no, I did not.
“They made the right appointment in Klopp. He is a good manager. With the best managers you see their identity in their team. Klopp's Dortmund team had a very strong identity.
“To be sacked is part of your job, but if you ask me about being sacked by Real Madrid I tell you that it was not right.
“I was really, really unhappy because I had a fantastic relationship with the players. I really enjoyed training this team. They were really serious, really professional. More than Chelsea I was disappointed.
“I watched Ronaldo’s film and it was good but it did not show how professional he is. We would sometimes return from a European game. It could be three in the morning but Ronaldo would be the player who did not go straight home. Instead he would go to the training ground for the ice bath, to help with his recovery from the game.
“As a group they were very professional, though. Casillas, Modric, Bale also. It was a little more difficult with Bale because I was used to speaking to the players in Spanish, but he is a nice guy.
“Listen, you are judged on the results, but you cannot win every single year. Certainly not in Spain where you have the best team in the world in Barcelona. You have a third team, in Atletico, that is also very competitive.
“Madrid was the hardest job. More pressure even than Milan. Was losing to Liverpool in 2005 my worst experience? Try losing 4-0 in the Madrid derby. That season we had a run of 22 wins in succession but it was all forgotten on February 7 when we lost 4-0 to Atletico.
“If the manager doesn’t win at Madrid he is sacked. Had I not won the Decima I would have been sacked a year earlier but I knew this when I took the job. I could have decided not to sign but Real Madrid it’s the most important club in the world.
“The President and the general director came to see me but I knew it was coming. They had not been talking to me about the future. I could sense it was coming.”