Former Arsenal striker Kevin Campbell has told the club not recruit Jose Mourinho as a replacement for Unai Emery.

Campbell would prefer the Gunners to promote Freddie Ljungberg, rather than tempt the former Manchester United and Chelsea boss back to the Premier League.

He told AFTV: "There's been a lot of rumours flying about, about a new manager coming in.

"There's that 'M' word that I don't even want to mention. Yeah, Mickey Mouse.

"I don't want to mention him, who was manager of our rivals, two of our rivals and apparently got spotted having dinner with Raul [Sanllehi], which is nonsense.

"But I wouldn't have him anyway, I wouldn't have him anywhere near the club."

Mourinho is not the only name that Campbell would take out of the reckoning if a new coach is sought, with it his opinion that the best man for the job is already on Arsenal's books.

He added: "I'd have none of them. I'd have Freddie [Ljungberg] in. [Mourinho's] not in, he's not in, and Emery's gone. So if that's the case I'd have none of them and I don't have to choose one.

"Yeah [it's got that bad] that fans could sell their soul to the devil. I say that just as a saying.

"Sell their soul to Mourinho who has absolutely lambasted Arsenal, taken the mickey out of Arsenal, taken the mickey out of Arsene Wenger when he was our manager, specialist in failure and all that.

"That's aimed at us, that isn't just the manager, that's aimed at us. This is how it is."