Ashley Cole hopes Freddie Ljungberg is appointed as Arsenal's next manager.

The Swede is currently caretaker boss of the Gunners, a team he spent many years with as a player.

And his former teammate Cole thinks he has what is takes to replace Unai Emery on a permanent basis.

"Every club has to change. They're in another transition period at the minute where they tried Emery and for whatever reason it didn't work out," Cole, speaking on behalf of Nissan, told Omnisport.

"Now Freddie is there and hopefully he can take over as permanent manager because he knows the club inside out. Freddie was my friend when I was at Arsenal and hopefully he can change some things there."