Carlo Ancelotti would like to manage in the Premier League again before he retires.

Ancelotti is on sabbatical following his dismissal as manager of Real Madrid. 

Ancelotti managed Chelsea for two seasons and won the Premier League in his first season.

“The vacation will continue at least until the end of the year. Then I’ll start again,” he said in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport.

“Where will I go? Where they call me. I will talk, evaluate and decide. Up until a few weeks ago I was scared someone would call, but now I feel like I’m getting closer to that comeback.

“At least that is the plan, unless something strange happens. I am ready to get the engine back up and running in January."

Ancelotti added: “I’d like to go back to the Premier League. It is the ideal environment not for football, but for the ‘game’ around football.

“You can work with the right amount of pressure, the necessary detachment and calm. Before I quit, I’d like to have another experience in England.

“In a while I must start to think about retirement, let’s say in five or six years. When I started out at Reggiana, I’d promised myself to work five or six years and that would be it. That was 25 years ago and I’m still going.”