Carlo Ancelotti is Chelsea manager

Carlo Ancelotti was unveiled this morning as Chelsea's new boss, just a day after quitting as manager of AC Milan and within two days of the previous interim boss at Stamford Bridge, Guus Hiddink, standing down after winning the FA Cup final on Saturday afternoon. The news broke in a statement on Chelsea's website this morning, which referred to Ancelotti as "the outstanding candidate for the job. He has proved over a long period his ability to build teams that challenged for, and have been successful in, major domestic and European competitions."

It also noted that "Ancelotti had a highly successful playing career in those competitions and therefore brings unparalleled all round experience to the job." Ancelotti himself told the website of his desire to emulate his success at the San Siro, where he spent eight years as AC Milan's manager. "Milan was a great experience - for five years I played with a great team, with a lot of success, and then spent eight years training a great team," he told the website. "Now it is time for a change and Chelsea. For me it is a great experience with a great team."

Ancelotti will be keenly aware of the desire for silverware of his new boss Roman Abramovich. He will be the west Londoners' fourth manager in less than two years, following in the footsteps of Hiddink, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Avram Grant and Jose Mourinho. The latter three all being unceremoniously ejected from the club when they failed to win silverware or were taking the club in the wrong direction. Ancelotti formally takes charge of the team on July 1.

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING
Steve Howard, the Sun: "With the entry of Ancelotti, Chelsea are now on their fifth manager in two years. Who’s to say it won’t go all a little pear-shaped as it did under Phil Scolari. Ancelotti’s English, we are told, is on the same level as the Brazilian’s. Mangled. Unlike Scolari - and Fabio Capello - he is not coming in with his own coaching staff. Which, at a club where there are so many personal agendas, will leave him even more isolated. Frank Arnesen, on Hiddink’s suggestion given a major say on transfers, has his own power base. Then there is Hiddink himself. Despite his return to duties with the Russian Federation, he will continue to be used in an advisory role. And what of chief executive Peter Kenyon, whose future is shrouded in mystery? On top of this is the all-pervading presence of Abramovich himself.Ancelotti will soon discover there are just too many chiefs" ·