Carlo Ancelotti set for a 'beautiful' future at Chelsea
AC Milan general manager Adriano Galliani insists the powers of new Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti are not on the wane.
Ancelotti ended an eight-year spell in charge at the San Siro on Sunday and was yesterday named as Guus Hiddink's successor at Stamford Bridge.
Milan failed to win a trophy in the last 18 months of Ancelotti's tenure - a record which effectively heralded the end of his time at the helm - but Galliani dismissed the notion that the new Chelsea coach has lost his winning touch.
"I prefer to look at things in terms of football seasons and not calendar years and last season, we won the European Super Cup and the World Club Cup," he said.
"That is something no other Italian club can do, considering that no other Italian club is capable of winning the Champions League, which means they cannot win these cups either."
Milan finished third in Serie A this season and crashed out of the UEFA Cup in the first knockout round to eventual finalists Werder Bremen, while their Coppa Italia challenge ended at the first hurdle against Lazio.
But Galliani said: "This year we have achieved the aim we set ourselves and I maintain that, without the injuries we had, we would have challenged for the Scudetto.
"We have finished in a share of second place and if Carlo had not been here, with the injuries we had, it could have been even worse."
