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I could share a job with Montella! - Ancelotti jokes about next role

Carlo Ancelotti joked that he could share a coaching job with AC Milan boss Vincenzo Montella but ruled out taking on a role in international football.

Ancelotti was sacked by Bayern Munich last month following a 3-0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League and amid claims relations had broken down between the Italian and a number of his experienced squad members.

"Montella said he would like to be my assistant and I would be happy to be his," he said. 

"We will manage one game each in turn. We only have to find the club willing to do this."

"Now I am on holiday and will be for about 10 months," he added. "I don't want to come back earlier than that but inside I still want to coach every single day, therefore I don't think I would join a national team."

Asked whether his players turned on him at Bayern, Ancelotti concluded: "I respected all of them, but as a manager I have to make choices to put 11 on the pitch and seven on the bench.

"It is up to each player's intelligence to accept my choices and up to the club to back its manager."