The best way to define Fiorentina's 2018-19 Serie A campaign? A season from hell.
Fiorentina look to have avoided relegation to the second division by the skin of their teeth, mathematically needing just a point from their final league game to remain in the Italian top-flight.
But relegation for Fiorentina would have been one of the most dramatic stories ever witnessed in Serie A.
While not as bad as the 2006 Calciopoli scandal that saw Juventus relegated to Serie B due to match-fixing - as well as a whole host of other clubs including Fiorentina being implicated - the club's demotion this season will have still sent shockwaves throughout the whole of Europe, not just Serie A.
Fiorentina have been relegated before back in 2002 but 17 years on and with a talented squad at their disposal, playing in Serie B would have been unthinkable.
Vincenzo Montella's side are in disarray, having lost six consecutive league games and are winless in 13. They head into their final match against fellow-strugglers Genoa with something still to play for as they look to beat the drop.
Fiorentina sit three points clear of 18th-placed Genoa and have a far superior goal difference that even a defeat would fortunately realistically ensure they retain their top-flight status.
But how has it got so bad for one of Serie A's most iconic clubs? They should be fighting for a European spot but instead they are battling against humiliation.
Many of the first XI seem to have downed tools, with many knowing moves to some of Europe's biggest clubs are on the horizon.
Federico Chiesa has been touted for a huge £60million move this summer, with Premier League sides Tottenham and Chelsea interested in his services.
The highly-talented forward, along with many more, sees a future elsewhere and that is apparent from his stats this season, scoring just six goals and providing seven assists.
Centre-back Nikola Milenkovic has also attracted heavy interest from football giants Manchester United.
Alban Lafont remains one of the most talented goalkeepers in world football but Fiorentina's awful form has meant he has only kept eight clean sheets this campaign.
The vast array of talent continues but the level of performance across the squad isn't getting any better. Marko Pjaca, Kevin Mirallas and Luis Muriel are all on loan from Juventus, Everton and Sevilla respectively.
Many of the players' minds are elsewhere and they are thinking about the future, and the future only as they eye summer moves.
To make matters worse, Fiorentina owners - the Della Valle family - appear uninterested with proceedings on the field.
And it has led to plenty of unrest in the stands, with protests continuing against the owners.
Brothers Andrea and Diego, who are billionaires through their luxury shoe company Tod's, bought the club in 2002 after it had been declared bankrupt and relegated to Italy's fourth tier. However, The Fiorentina Supporters Association (ATF), has accused the owners of failing to invest since then.
A set of Fiorentina supporters have made their feelings known towards the family. They recently protested outside the owners' shoe shop, called Hogan.
The Fiorentina supporters took their shoes off in front of the Hogan shop before posing under the motto: 'Better barefoot than with Hogan'.
And just prior to that, the club's fans boycotted the opening 45 minutes of their home clash against Bologna that ended 0-0 on April 14.
The fans spent the first-half inside the concourse before coming out for the last 45 minutes.
'We have registered a single, united front - critical of an ownership guilty of having abandoned our beloved Fiorentina for years,' a statement read prior to the goalless draw.
'The next concrete move Fiorentina's organised fanbase will make is to leave seats empty during the opening 45 minutes of Sunday's match against Bologna.
'[This is] a sign of the broken relationship with the Della Valle brothers which will certainly not go unnoticed. We invite everyone who has chosen for some time to protest by joining us in buying a ticket and leaving the stadium deserted.
'It will be an important moment which will set in motion a series of initiatives - therefore your presence is fundamental. In the second half, fans will go back up to their seats to support the guys on the pitch - for the shirt and for who still believes.
'ATF and all the organisations involved will look at new forms of protest to put in motion - this is only the beginning. For Florence, for Fiorentina fans.'
With the owners uninterested, the players not pulling their weight and the Fiorentina faithful up in arms, it has led to a nightmare season that could have ended with a shock relegation.
But it has happened before. Sampdoria are an example of how quickly things can go awry in Italy. They were relegated from Serie A in the 2010-11 season, just one campaign on from qualifying for the Champions League play-off round.
Star player Antonio Cassano fell out with with club president Riccardo Garrone and was sold in January alongside Giampaolo Pazzini, after the attacking pair fired them to an historic season in 2009-10.
They won just three times in 2011, finishing 18th in Serie A before 30,000 rival Genoa fans gleefully staged a mock funeral for their rivals in the city streets.
If Fiorentina aren't careful, similar consequences await.