Former Chelsea boss Glenn Hoddle believes Chelsea would be thriving if the club’s hierarchy had kept Thomas Tuchel at Stamford Bridge.

“There have been a lot of managers who have been sacked, what shocked me more was Tuchel being sacked,” Hoddle said.

“It was a poor decision, I’m sorry but it was, for Chelsea, no doubt about it.

“What he did in a short period of time, you’ve got to look at that, a Champions League winners, you had the foundation there for real success and now they’re grasping for that by trying to go and buy a load of players. Give that money to Tuchel and go and buy what he wants to buy, that would’ve been incredible.

“He might have got the best out of [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang, Aubameyang goes there to work with Tuchel and he’s gone. So we don’t know [if it would’ve worked], it’s hypothetical now, but he [thought], I got the best out of him at Dortmund and I’ll do it again’, but that crumbled, that disappeared, there’s been a lot of stumbling blocks on this finisher that Chelsea need.”