Chelsea paid a club-record £72m fee to sign Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen in 2020, but the German youngster barely makes the teamsheet under Thomas Tuchel
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Thomas Tuchel slams Chelsea schedule
When Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel hatched a plan to sign Romelu Lukaku for £97.5million in August, it was indicative of the German’s plan to challenge for the Premier League title. But his thinly-veiled criticism of the club’s frontline was particularly damaging for Kai Havertz.
“We need more goals and we rely on anybody and we want to trust anybody who is capable of scoring,” he said in April.
“But you just need to read the numbers, our top scorers have six goals. This is clearly not enough for the demands, the expectations and the targets Chelsea football club has and what we demand.”
That must have felt like a kick in the teeth for Havertz and Timo Werner, who had only been given one season to get to grips with English football before Lukaku was drafted in from Inter Milan.
