Chelsea forward Kai Havertz has admitted “everything that can go wrong has gone wrong” for him and his teammates this season.
The German has been speaking to Sky Sports Germany about the season so far as the Blues limp towards the end of a disastrous campaign.
They started the year full of optimism after Todd Boehly bought the club from Roman Abramovich last summer and proceeded to spend money left right and centre improving Thomas Tuchel’s squad.
The German did not remain in the hotseat under the new management for long, though, with Boehly electing to sack the Champions League winner and bring in Graham Potter instead.
That proved to be a disaster as the former Brighton coach struggled to implement his ideas on a bloated Chelsea squad, which was only made worse by further spending in the January transfer window.
He was eventually sacked at the beginning of April and replaced by Frank Lampard, who took charge until the end of the season in the hope of sparking a late revival of their campaign.
That certainly hasn’t happened, with Chelsea losing all five of their games under his leadership so far and scoring just one goal to boot.
Nothing he, or anyone else has tried has worked out for the Blues this season and Havertz admits it has simply been one disaster to another.
“Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong for us this year,” he said.
“The season started relatively quietly. I mean, we had the change, which was also a big, big change for the whole club.
“Then Thomas Tuchel was fired relatively early in the season. That always does something to a team – when you had success with the coach, but he is then fired relatively quickly and out of nowhere.
“Then we had a good phase under Graham Potter – in the first weeks and months. After the World Cup, we didn’t play very well and lost a lot of points. Then another change of coach is not easy either. Now our backs are against the wall and we’re not doing very well in the table.
“That’s why we have to say that a lot of things went wrong. We got a lot of new players over the winter, and they have to settle in before they can show their quality.
“Whereby I have to say: It’s always easy to find excuses. I’m not a fan of that. At the end of the day, we are all professional footballers and have to win a game sometimes. Now we have to try to make the best out of the last six games and try to make the fans happy again.”
