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title: "Ancelotti once expressed desire to manage Liverpool"
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author: "Elliott Cuff"
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published: "2019-12-20T07:00:00Z"
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# Ancelotti once expressed desire to manage Liverpool

Carlo Ancelotti reportedly once expressed a desire to manager Liverpool, according to reports.

The Italian is edging ever closer to becoming Everton’s new manager following Marco Silva’s sacking earlier this month, after he himself was sacked by Napoli a few weeks ago.

Ancelotti previously worked in the Premier League with Chelsea, where he won the Premier League title as manager during the 2009-10 season, and is has been said that he has wanted a return to the English top flight for some time now.

However, a report from Calciomercato’s Alberto Cerruti claims that the 60-year old specifically had his eye on the Red half of Merseyside.

![Francesco Pecoraro/Getty Images Sport](https://media.readeverton.com/readeverton/2019/12/1193152406-3.jpg)

According to the report ([via Sport Witness](https://sportwitness.co.uk/dream-liverpool-ancelotti-said-confided-reds-managerial-wish-rather-everton/)), Ancelotti had confided with Italian journalists following his Bayern Munich departure in 2017 that “his dream was Liverpool”.

At the time, the Reds had Jurgen Klopp, and so Ancelotti returning to Italian football with Napoli.

Cerruti also goes on to compare Everton’s relationship with their noisy neighbours to that of Juventus and Torino, saying:

> Everton is to Liverpool as Torino is to Juventus, the eternal second team of the city and without even the great history of the granata.

### Read Everton Verdict

I have absolutely no problem with Ancelotti preferring the Liverpool job to the Everton job. The Reds are in a much better position as a club, as a business and as a football team with top quality than Everton are, so it makes sense to me that Anfield is a more attractive destination.

However, I do have an issue with Calciomercato labelling Everton as the Torino to Liverpool’s Juventus, while also claiming that the Blues don’t have the same “great history” as their Turin counterparts.

Obviously those at Calciomercato aren’t up to date on their English football history, because it isn’t an apples to apples comparison. Everton have a rich and storied history, and it is only due to the fact that the club’s most recent success came in 1995 that some have largely forgotten who the club used to be.

As Sport Witness so accurately write, “the Toffees have nine league titles to Torino’s seven, with both clubs winning their major domestic cup competition five times, and Everton having a European trophy”. To suggest that Everton’s history isn’t as rich as Torino’s is categorically incorrect.

This veiled dig at the club is also insinuating that Ancelotti perhaps made a snap judgement call in joining Everton after leaving Napoli, and that he maybe should have waited, and that is another sentiment that I wholly resent.