Benitez was replaced by Roy Hodgson as manager at Liverpool this summer.
“I wasn’t surprised at all that Liverpool changed their manager in the summer,” Fergie told the People.
“I think everyone expected it even though Benitez had signed a new contract.
“That was the only complication about it. If he hadn’t signed a contract the previous season then I am sure he would have gone before the end of the last season.
“But the fact he had signed a new contract brings its own complications in terms of compensation and that type of thing, so they waited.
“Obviously, the directors at the club had come to the stage where they had to discuss the manager’s future because of the performances. Then I think everybody expected it to happen and for him to go.”
