🇺🇸 Christian Pulisic

[BlueLyon 9,359]

6 hours ago, Jason said:

What makes you think Dortmund will just sell Sancho after half a season?

Also, paying 90 million for an 18-year-old who's enjoying only his first season at senior level hardly sounds like wise business...

Wise business?

I dont think paying 90m for Sancho would be any less wiser compared to paying 60m for Pulisic who is warming bench at bvb.

In 6 months, Sancho shown more than Pulisic did in his entire career. 

Neither is great player and both would be giant risk, but I can understand splashing big money on Sancho who is english and had superb 6 months. On the other hand what did Pulisic do to make our board chunk 60m, apart from being american with big potential to bring huge fanbase. Obviously Pulisic isnt bad player and is actualy decent talent, but he is extremely raw talent, we suck at developing those, so it already makes little sense. And he is never worth 60m either. 

Its same old story. Pulisic is decent talent but we still forked out huge money. But we will never add 20m more and go for the best talent which makes no sense.

Similar story was with Sterling/Stones for who we didnt want to pay 50m, but we did pay 40m on Drinks. Laughable board and I have no doubt Pulisic was bought with idea of getting onto american market, not for being superb player. 

Because for 60m, even today you either get great player or massive talent and Pulisic is neither.

I will support him once he becomes Chelsea player, but honestly I dont have big hopes on him. I dont remember when we had a talented player away on loan that I was this unexcited about coming here.

[Vesper 30,185]

On 24/03/2019 at 9:15 PM, BlueLyon said:

Wise business?

I dont think paying 90m for Sancho would be any less wiser compared to paying 60m for Pulisic who is warming bench at bvb.

In 6 months, Sancho shown more than Pulisic did in his entire career. 

Neither is great player and both would be giant risk, but I can understand splashing big money on Sancho who is english and had superb 6 months. On the other hand what did Pulisic do to make our board chunk 60m, apart from being american with big potential to bring huge fanbase. Obviously Pulisic isnt bad player and is actualy decent talent, but he is extremely raw talent, we suck at developing those, so it already makes little sense. And he is never worth 60m either. 

Its same old story. Pulisic is decent talent but we still forked out huge money. But we will never add 20m more and go for the best talent which makes no sense.

Similar story was with Sterling/Stones for who we didnt want to pay 50m, but we did pay 40m on Drinks. Laughable board and I have no doubt Pulisic was bought with idea of getting onto american market, not for being superb player. 

Because for 60m, even today you either get great player or massive talent and Pulisic is neither.

I will support him once he becomes Chelsea player, but honestly I dont have big hopes on him. I dont remember when we had a talented player away on loan that I was this unexcited about coming here.

time will tell

[Yeboii 1,844]

People seem to forget that Pulisic was one of the hottest prospects in the game just shy of a year ago.

If we had signed him last summer everyone would have gone crazy saying he is the next Hazard and such. No, just because Sancho hit the ground running somehow people think Pulisic has lost all talent.

He is our player now, like it or not. We have to give him a chance to impress like everyone else gets. He hasn't even put on a blue shirt yet!!!

Somehow I think the poor current form of the team is to blame for the negativity on a player that we haven't even seen playing in our team!

[Miguelito 459]

It's crazy the judgements people seem to be coming to based on one video...Maybe you all are implying the video is a microcosm of his play as a whole, but it really seems it is one video and now he is an ineffective player that stalls on the ball. Hazard does stuff like that often. Is he ineffective?

Let's just not take one video out of context.

[MoroccanBlue 5,382]

We also don't have a great track record for developing youth prospects. 

[Jase 43,479]

Scored a neat goal vs Chile and became the youngest player in USMNT history to score 10 goals.

But he then went off with a quad injury and there's this...

 

 

[MoroccanBlue 5,382]

Board won't care so long he sells shirts in the American Market. 

[Special Juan 28,141]

beautiful goal, some player this kid.

[manpe 10,861]

On 24/03/2019 at 2:43 PM, Nicco said:

I'll never understand why they didn't pay 30 more for Sancho instead of Pulisic and get a much better player in return plus fixing our worries about homegrown, such a joke.

It's easy to understand though, he costs less and is American = profit. Also he isn't satisfied with his lack of game time, much easier to lure away than an on fire and very expensive Sancho who extended his contract 3 months prior. We would have had no chance at Sancho.

[rohitmohanihm 39]

from what little i have seen of him i feel as if he is a player similar to Pedro if i have to choose and i also see a similar numbers atleast at club level. As for NT he is going to be (Our) "Messi"ah till the next one come around..

[nyikolajevics 2,700]

On 2019. 03. 24. at 1:43 PM, Nicco said:

I'll never understand why they didn't pay 30 more for Sancho instead of Pulisic and get a much better player in return plus fixing our worries about homegrown, such a joke.

Because it's real life, not Fifa. 30 more? So do you think the first club who is willing to pay 90 million pounds gets him? No matter if it's Juventus, City, Real or Blackburn Rovers? It's not a grocery store, we are talking about human beings with decisions.

You have to agree with the player too. Sancho is like the most wanted player in Europe right now, not our category. We were never even rumoured to sign him just like De Ligt or De Jong.

[Clockwork 1,794]

Pulisic is not doing so well recently, but he still has the tools to be a great player. He has elite pace and acceleration to go along with his technical ability. I have seen him healthy and on form, he can be devastating. 

His constant injuries/medical issues do concern me though. 

 

[!Hazard! 3,394]

7 minutes ago, Clockwork said:

His constant injuries/medical issues do concern me though. 

 

Chelsea has one of the best if not the best medical staffs in the world. If there's any club that can help him with those injuries it's this one

[Jase 43,479]

3 minutes ago, Clockwork said:

Pulisic is not doing so well recently, but he still has the tools to be a great player. He has elite pace and acceleration to go along with his technical ability. I have seen him healthy and on form, he can be devastating. 

His constant injuries/medical issues do concern me though. 

Maybe it is a concern or maybe I'm just clutching at straws but Dortmund players do seem get injured here and there quite a bit. Not sure if it's their training regime or dodgy physios or both over there. Hope things will be different when he comes since we do have a good record when it comes to players being injury free etc.

[Vesper 30,185]

2 hours ago, nyikolajevics said:

Because it's real life, not Fifa. 30 more? So do you think the first club who is willing to pay 90 million pounds gets him? No matter if it's Juventus, City, Real or Blackburn Rovers? It's not a grocery store, we are talking about human beings with decisions.

You have to agree with the player too. Sancho is like the most wanted player in Europe right now, not our category. We were never even rumoured to sign him just like De Ligt or De Jong.

Have to agree. Other than the one-off Kepa buy that only occurred after big nose fucked us and Oblak turned us down, Roman stop going for best in world (no Kepa is not that, lolol, just cost a shedload) players well over a decade ago.

Other than his first 2 years, Roman has only spent £37m total net per year on transfers. Complete myth we are a big spending club.

With the bans, that will drop to £34m per year net since 2006, and less if we sell during the bans. Say a Hazard £100m sale. That alone drops it to only £27m net spent per year for a 14 year period.

Btw. THAT DOES NOT COUNT LOAN FEE REVENUE. Plug that in it must be close to zero spent net.

I always laugh when I see articles talking about the billion and a half Roman has supposedly spent on transfers. No biggie, those articles only get it wrong by.. OVER A BILLION QUID NET.

[!Hazard! 3,394]

13 minutes ago, Vesper said:

I always laugh when I see articles talking about the billion and a half Roman has supposedly spent on transfers. No biggie, those articles only get it wrong by.. OVER A BILLION QUID NET.

I wouldn't trust a word that comes out of Daily Mail, Goal etc. and especially when they talk about finance. I mean they rarely even seem to understand the difference between € and £

[nyikolajevics 2,700]

2 hours ago, Vesper said:

Have to agree. Other than the one-off Kepa buy that only occurred after big nose fucked us and Oblak turned us down, Roman stop going for best in world (no Kepa is not that, lolol, just cost a shedload) players well over a decade ago.

 

Also, it's possible that we won't play in the Champions League next year. And what if we will? City, Pool, Barcelona or Juventus are years ahead us. We can close this gap with hard work and consistent building but not in a few months. So I don't think signing Sancho was an option for us.

 

[Nicco 927]

20 minutes ago, nyikolajevics said:

Also, it's possible that we won't play in the Champions League next year. And what if we will? City, Pool, Barcelona or Juventus are years ahead us. We can close this gap with hard work and consistent building but not in a few months. So I don't think signing Sancho was an option for us.

 

Pulisic isn't a consistent option either from what I've seen of him. Should've gone for Pepe or Fekir before trying to buy raw talents.

[nyikolajevics 2,700]

9 hours ago, Nicco said:

Pulisic isn't a consistent option either from what I've seen of him. Should've gone for Pepe or Fekir before trying to buy raw talents.

He is just 20, he may improve a lot. 

Of course I’m insecure about him too, but I’m optimistic, hoping for the best  His run and his goal against Chile was great, so was his 1v1 on Valencia, we can see he has the talent, let’s hope consistency will come with age.

[Vesper 30,185]

United States star Pulisic out 3-4 weeks with muscle tear - source

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/borussia-dortmund/story/3810442/united-states-star-pulisic-out-3-4-weeks-with-muscle-tear-source

United States and Borussia Dortmund midfielder Christian Pulisic is set to miss the next 3-4 weeks after tearing a muscle in his right thigh in Tuesday's 1-1 friendly draw against Chile, a source tells ESPN.

Pulisic, 20, returned to Dortmund after leaving the pitch early in the match against Chile in which he became the youngest American to reach double-digit goals.

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