Best player in Europe?
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I was just coming to post that as well. He does score a bunch. I’ll leave it to those more knowledgeable than me (everyone) where he ranks but he’s played some good futbol since going there.
Since the beginning of last season he has the most goal contributions (goals plus assists) of any player in Serie A.
Yep. Amazing. Yet one guy here doesn’t believe he’s an elite player in Italy, let alone in europe.
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It wasn’t bad for him. He was a key player and a European Champion. His problem at Chelsea was staying healthy. That hasn’t been a problem for him since he left.
hamstrings never heal in season, i swear. and started that one season with hammies. if i remember correctly, he pulled it while playing for the national team in that summer.
but y'all also swiched managers every 6 months and none of them really gave him a good run. at least from what i could tell. he needed to go where he could play consistently.
He should. He stinks. Big clubs like chelsea are like SEC teams. It’s like a kid in college who gets recruited over and then transfers and flourishes. Back in the day, Mo Salah and Kevin Debruyne were hardly used subs at Chelsea who managers like Jose Mourinho didn’t trust compared to the older players.
But in Pulisic’s case, he was always working back from injuries and the managers IMO had built in bias in favor of English players like Mason Mount. But Pulisic when healthy did play himself into “undroppable” status at times.
No way!!! I checked in on them and then saw they were losing and then I didn’t bother watching. That was a cheeky goal.
Their gaffer has to be on thin ice. Things are not going well. I see they ended up losing again. Zlatan isn’t going to put up wit this.
Ok. Just trying to see what happened. It appears CP is the designated penalty taker for Milan. They were awarded two penalties today and both times players waved CP off. Theo Hernandez took one and tammy Abraham the other? Both missed I guess.
For a coach who is on thin ice, this isn’t good. And puli just isn’t that strong personality in the room.
No answers here but maybe he does need to assert himself more.
AC Milan boss fumes after Pulisic penalty drama
AC Milan coach Paulo Fonseca expressed his confusion over Christian Pulisic not stepping up for his side's penalties in Sunday's 2-1 defeat at Fiorentina despite being the team's designated penalty taker.
Most superstars have “it”. I’m not sure Christian does. I’ve watched his entire career and dozens and dozens of his games. I watched every single appearance at Chelsea. And there’s a significant difference in his moxy when playing in Europe vs playing for the USA.No answers here but maybe he does need to assert himself more.
AC Milan boss fumes after Pulisic penalty drama
AC Milan coach Paulo Fonseca expressed his confusion over Christian Pulisic not stepping up for his side's penalties in Sunday's 2-1 defeat at Fiorentina despite being the team's designated penalty taker.www.espn.com
Maybe it just comes down to the big fish little pond thing.
And yea there are some who don’t have it all the way. There’s an enormous mental component to be at the top of the pile in any sport. Some embrace it, some shy away can’t quite handle being the biggest of the big dogs.
I always go back to Tiger Woods when talking about this stuff. Before it all fell apart of course. Forget about all of his physical talent. He was just devastating with how he approached everything. He had “it” in spades in every way possible.
What a great goal this was last night. Jedi with good work down the left, Pulisic and Aaronson with a good 1-2, and Pulisic’s pass to an arriving Musah for the goal.
How happy is Musah in the celebration? You love to see it. Really cool to see, and hard to believe he is still only 21.
Odd for me seeing Musah start on the right side last night. He’s barely playing at Milan. And to hear Pochettino saying that he’s trying to get Musah playing confidently is a weird one for me when you’re playing a guy in a position that he’s not all that used to. But it paid off and Poch pulled the right strings.
Musah strikes me as a player who is versatile but just not quite good enough at any position to be a star anywhere. What do you guys think?
How happy is Musah in the celebration? You love to see it. Really cool to see, and hard to believe he is still only 21.
Odd for me seeing Musah start on the right side last night. He’s barely playing at Milan. And to hear Pochettino saying that he’s trying to get Musah playing confidently is a weird one for me when you’re playing a guy in a position that he’s not all that used to. But it paid off and Poch pulled the right strings.
Musah strikes me as a player who is versatile but just not quite good enough at any position to be a star anywhere. What do you guys think?
I think at AC MIlan, he is suffering from not gettting on the pitch enough. He does certain things well, but I wouldn't say he is a complete player yet. It was weird seeing him at right front.
I think Jedi now is probably the second best player on the pitch for the USA. His runs are so strong!
Hard to draw conclusions from Poch on this match. He hasn't really had enough time to implement his style. I really like his philosophies.
He makes me laugh. He’s such a good guy. After the match he made sure to hug every player. That’s not crazy unusual. But he also bro hugged Panama’s coach at length, every one of their players, all of their staff, all of our coaches, and all of our staff including every photographer and every cameraman. Then he went and seemingly stood and got the life stories of the 4 match referees. And I assume he stayed and hugged everyone in the crowd too.
This is getting silly, this has to be the highest peak a US player has ever reached for club right?
That is going to be biting a lot of players in the ass this year. They keep squishing more and more games into the same amount of time.
Good coaches are going to figure out which games they can sit which players out, not just take them out early or bring them on for the last 30, but leave them out entirely.
Yep, it is getting pretty ridiculous the workload these guys are under between club (+Champions/Europa if they qualify, and domestic cups) and country.
I love watching a lot of matches but deep down these guys need a little break if we the fans want to see them at their best.
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