Chelsea defender Alex says Guus Hiddink is the right man for the club.

Alex is already looking forward to renewing his working relationship with the former PSV Eindhoven coach and hinted that Hiddink is likely to stick with a variation of the 4-3-3 system used by Luiz Felipe Scolari.

"He is a good coach and a fantastic man," Alex said. "When I played in Brazil with Santos I remember he came all the way to watch my games and speak with me, he is a very good man.

"I think he would play a similar system here to what we have seen, and when I was at PSV we played a 4-3-3 system - we had some very exciting times there.

"In my three years in Holland, two of them were with Guus Hiddink and we won the title both times and the double once, as well as reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League in my first year."