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At this rate, he has a pretty good chance of exceeding his personal best of 9 goals and 6 assists he scored for Chelsea in a single-season. But he won’t be able to beat the 2 goals and 2 assists he provided for Chelsea and their champions league winning season because Milan have been knocked out of the CL.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/dec/21/christian-pulisic-milan-usmnt-stefano-pioli-serie-a

Gains from trade. He is far more valuable right now as a sale asset than he is to Chelsea. He did all this stuff you see in these charts from the left wing. He will never play ahead of Stirling out there, and if Leao (sp?) is coming all the more reason to sell now.

Now is the time to get value for Pulisic. His WC stats were off the hook. One example:

Source?

Ziyech scored AGAIN.

Watching evals of Pulisic’s play against England, the perception gulf between Chelsea fans and Pulisic fans is wide. It is time for Chelsea to part ways with him in January and make manager, player, and fans on both sides happier.

Gallagher was smothered and ineffective last match. Kova seems more likely to do better with pressure (at least couldn’t do any worse).

Chelsea was not prepared by their manager. Anyone could foresee that this would be all about handling pressure, and play in tight spaces. Eventually blaming a deficit of talent will become impossible. Leeds had a better game plan, end of story.

Today’s piece in The Athletic says he won’t be signing an extension so his options are to play out his run and/or hope for a transfer. Given the number of times he has been described on this thread as “shit,” and his role in putting CFC into the CL a couple of times, it’s not surprising that he would want to move on. The clip at the top of this page shows that he still has quality, and TT still values him as an impact sub, so he will get some minutes. But probably best for all concerned if a move can be arranged.

Hope the parties can arrange a transfer. I think the bulk of Chelsea fans will be happier with that, and so will the bulk of Christian Pulisic fans.

Pulisic is only player playing in to Lukaku, or playing the ball forward generally. Midfield is failing.

I heard a possible Dest loan from Barca is in play. Not the best defender but much quicker.