Mauricio Pochettino has been axed from the Chelsea job, after just one season at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea announced on Tuesday evening that they had parted ways with Pochettino by mutual consent.

The decision has come as a surprise to many, as Mauricio Pochettino was beginning to get something out of the squad, and next season was expected to be better.

Gus Poyet, who won the FA Cup winner with Chelsea in 2000, has slammed the decision by the Chelsea owners.

“My initial reaction was: I know nothing about football. I don’t know, nothing surprises me now,” the ex-Chelsea midfielder told Sky Sports.

“I think the best moment of Pochettino was the last two months, by far, and everybody close to Chelsea, we were expecting a great summer and the start of something important for next year.

“But we don’t know the inside. I was shocked. Someone told me and I couldn’t believe it. I started checking on my phone because it was kind of impossible. But everything is possible in football.”

Gus Poyet believes that the new Chelsea manager has already been put in a tight situation by the owners.

Poyet believes Chelsea’s next manager will be walking into a ‘very difficult’ situation, as he’d be expected to succeed with an inexperienced squad.

“I think before Pochettino went there, I always thought that at Chelsea you must win,” he added.

“And I remember Poch saying in the beginning, ‘I’m at Chelsea and I need to win’, but then you get a group of players that is totally different to the players that are winning the Premier League.

“If you look at the age of the Manchester City players and how many years they have been together. If you look at Liverpool and the club, how they grow up and keep bringing players.

“Even Arsenal, it’s a couple of years and they’re still not good enough to win the Premier League.

“If you want to do that with Chelsea, with I don’t know how many new players, and very young ones and most of them foreigners, it’s very difficult.

“I thought the idea was to continue [with Pochettino]. I was wrong, I don’t know the reasons but it was a big surprise today.”