Sir Mikel OBE

He's captain America though. You'll hear stories about him constantly in ESPN because hes the face of the game here nationally. It would be like if Sterling or Kane were abroad not starting every game. It gets them clicks.

Is it really more of an agenda other than every other press on earth? An American media outlet thinks that the best american player, who isnt good enough currently to play at the club hes at, should go to a place where he will get more consistent gametime. That is fair

Minimum ban for any racial offences is 6 games Oh wow Welp, he only has himself to blame. It was a stupid post to make public, and he should know better.

I thought he was just charged? Where did they say he was banned for 6 games?

I'd wager theres a big difference in expectation, and the game, in the bundesliga from what he can expect here at this club though. Theres a reason there is apprehension in his play. We agree on him needing minutes, hence in a perfect world he would be loaned out to a place where he can learn the league and get his minutes in. Being one of the best US players has nothing to do with anything. The US is a side rebuilding from our golden generation, and a side who failed to qualify for the last world cup in a region where you dont even have to beat the decent sides to make the world cup at all. The US is no powerhouse in any sense for one of the best players from here being immune to being loaned out. We are a small football(men) nation despite what NBCSN and MLS marketing would lead the rest of the world to believe.

The Media was always going to do this if he didnt play though because he's literally the face of the sport in a nation that produces a vast amount of Digital English press and has 300+ million people. The thing is I can love him as a player, and agree with the fact that he is NOT better than Willian or Pedro at this point. I reiterate in a perfect world we dont have the transfer ban and he gets a loan move to learn the league before honestly fighting for a starting spot here. He's just turned 21. He should be playing week in/week out for a mid table side right now learning his trade.

Fantastic player. Looks to have lost a bit of his pace though. Hopefully its more of a matter of getting fit again, and not from him trying to bulk up.

King Willian!!!!!

Lol no Barkley this time eh?

How many Goals and assists does anybody else out there have?

Willian has actually been decent. Great dribbles Fantastic workrate Linking up well with tammy Trying to shoot

CHO shouldnt go 90 min yet. He's our super sub. Pulisic shouldnt be playing over pedro or Willian.

Jorginho is horrific.

Midfield is being overrun.

He certainly wasnt loved. Especially around the time Costa was thanked for the "seasono", and the most gutless coaching display ever seen when we didnt even try to do anything against Manchester City. Vast majority on here at least were happy to see the back of him

Of course reputation matters. Why do you think Lampard is manager of this club right now? It(being condemnation) is not applied across the board though. One look at Kepa's topic and then Willians shows that. Conte was hated by damn near everybody on here, and was two managers ago, and that is still the sum of his character by some on here. That is an unfair standard.

No, but he gets more of a pass than the guy nobody even knows by rational actors. Kepa going for personal glory last season almost certainly cost us a trophy, and he gets nowhere near the same vitriol Willian gets. He's damn near the definition of club cancer but if you look on here you think it was Willian that was the biggest issue in the dressing room.

Willian had been here long enough for a connection to have been formed on my part. When Kepa pulled that shit on Sarri he was still a new boy, theoretically. If he had his way we probably would have scored that penalty too, but thats neither here nor there. Jorginho was confused as well, and that comes down to the manager not being clear on roles with the players beforehand.

Conte was absolutely HATED by 90% of the forum. People are trying to use an attack on him to cover up their irrational hatred of a player who has been a humble servant to this club.

The fact that this moist, semi-incoherent, post had not 1 or 2, but 4 people liking it just shows the Willian opinion on here is not logical at all. Its emotional based on some perceived slight against a manager who won a trophy for us. Yet the same emotional response will never be made against the keeper who outright refused managers orders in front of the world and probably cost us a trophy that night. This is becoming embarrassing.

How many top clubs would make Pulisic their first choice starter? We have to be honest here.

Willian is better than him right now.

No Im pretty serious. He's not at a level wheres hes ready for us. His price tag was based on potential. The same people begging to see him on here will slag him off as soon as he proves why he isnt playing right now. Hell, I remember Kalou getting the treatment on here when he was, at that point, at a higher level skill wise than Pulisic is right now. He'd be set up for failure if he was forced out there right now, and that would be bad for all parties involved.

He's not good enough yet. If we didnt have the transfer ban, in a perfect world, he would have been loaned out to a premier league side to learn how to place in this league.

Theres a reason for that too. He isnt good enough to play for us consistently yet. I knew he would be relegated to this role when we bought him. I dont know why some people thought he would be the replacement for Hazard.