Kai Havertz laments Chelsea sacking Thomas Tuchel ‘out of nowhere’

• Kai Havertz criticizes the ‘out of nowhere’ termination of Thomas Tuchel by Chelsea.

  

Kai Havertz bemoaned Chelsea’s choice of sacking Thomas Tuchel, claiming that it had a significant impact on the Blues’ season.

In summary, the 2022–23 season for Chelsea was totally terrible. After sacking both Graham Potter, who replaced Thomas Tuchel as manager, and Lampard, a caretaker, the Blues are now led by interim manager Frank Lampard. They have scored fewer goals than all but the lowest three teams in the league.

Havertz, a forward who has only scored seven Premier League goals this season, highlighted what has gone wrong for Chelsea in an interview with Sky Germany. He made reference to the abysmal 2022–23 season being sparked by the club’s decision to remove Tuchel.

“Everything that could go wrong went wrong for us this year. The season actually started relatively quietly even though we had a change of ownership, which was a big change for the whole club,” he said.

“And then Thomas Tuchel was fired, which of course always makes a big difference in a team like this when you’ve been successful with a coach and then he gets fired out of nowhere. We got a lot of new players over the winter who first have to settle in with us in order to be able to show their quality.

“Of course it’s easy to find excuses. I’m not blaming everything on something. At the end of the day, we’re all professional footballers and we have to win football games.

“Now we have our backs to the wall and aren’t doing very well in the table. We just have to do as well as possible from the last six games.”

On Tuesday night, Chelsea and Arsenal will square off with the goal of reaching 40 points for the 2022–23 season.