It's not all that bad guys, look at it this way, we're not even a quarter of the way into the season and Pulisic and Haaland have 19 goals between them....
You are seriously inflating the publicity impact of his product endorsement. This is all second/third tier stuff. His name recognition isn't all that outside of the US soccer crowd. He's done little lately to reverse that tendency.
They do rate him. That's why he's still at Chelsea, he's one of the not-1st-choice players they wanted to keep. This is the life of a bench player at a top club. It's not easy. Like others have said, I think there are enough minutes to go around to get him on the pitch, and it's going to be on him to grab those opportunities. I do agree it's not great for the US though, considering we are 7 weeks out or whatever it is.
From what I can gather, the whispers are Pulisic simply hasn't impressed on the training ground since Potter arrival. Not that he's not training well, but his competitors(Mount, Hatvertz, Gallagher) are also out working him on the training ground. Maybe he's not an impressive training guy type...and I could see him taking it easy there so to not get hurt, considering his injury record. But then again, it's not like he goes all out running hard like a mad dog during his 5-10 minute cameos off the bench.
Where are you seeing these "whispers"? And I actually think he's played really well in the (very) limited minutes he's had on the field during matches since Potter has been there. I have no way of knowing how he's doing in training, but I suppose his match time would suggest these supposed "whispers" could be accurate.
Yeah hard to know without actually being there. It would not surprise me if he was trying to avoid injury ahead of the WC given his injury record, and thus is not training at 100 percent. And his club managers may have noticed. Not exactly like he lit it up for the US either.
Fans never liked him, since the first day he arrived they were posting 'Shopped pics of him in the Vitesse jersey and worse. When he was having a good time they went "my kid would have scored that one mate" and so on. Recently, when he had an assist, they went "ran into a cul de sac and then passed a yard to a guy who then scored a screamer. You're generous to call it an assist" and so on. Sitting Puli for a while is basically the way Potter has of making the fans like him, too. He'll get his shot though.
Chelsea are just in the mode now of trying to fill the team up with English players. Sterling, Mount, RLC, James, Chilwell all started again and Gallagher was now placed ever further forward after a great goal. Heck, even the coach is English. Sort of like the club team for the ENT. Problem for CP is that they are all good to very good players and as a Yank you have to clearly play better than your English counterpart to warrant significant time. Hopefully this means he will be healthy come WC Time and come fired up to beat the ENT on the world's largest stage.
Gallagher is going to play forward in the midfield He was lost when played deeper. He played forward when with Crystal Palace.
It also seems like Americans are very unpopular in Britain these days. Too much owning of the clubs by Americans is my theory.
There's also the super league fiasco that was American led. English fans were the loudest in discontent when that happened.
A lot of people have posted that the congested schedule should lead to at least a start and some sub minutes before the WC but there is certainly a chance that he will get zero starts and hardly any sub minutes either. Conspiracy? English Manager making sure that CP is rusty in November? This weekend's game will be very telling because Wolves are in early Relegation danger. If Potter doesn't play him against the easiest team they have on their congested schedule then CP is likely done at Chelsea. But wouldn't it be great if CP came out and had a monster game against the ENT to shut a lot of these guys up. It would be beautiful.
The cognitive dissonance from Thierry Henry in the article is so weird! Henry states Pulisic has to “show something” while citing that Pulisic did in fact “show something” in the Palace game. Henry said Gallagher played in the Champions League match against Milan because he scored a goal (in the Palace game) AND said Pulisic assisted on the goal (in the same Palace game ). So according to Henry’s logic, both Gallagher and Pulisic “showed something”, yet as we all know, Pulisic didn’t even get one second of playing time versus Milan. Henry never hinted at the reason for the Gallagher-Pulisic discrepancy and I’m guessing no one else pointed that out either.
Pulisic won't start, but I suspect he'll get a bit more time..probably 15-20 minutes. If anything, Potter will probably get Gallagher and maybe Broja a start..he probably won't make too many changes. It would be more telling if he doesn't get a start on the next match on Tuesday..At that point, guys like Sterling and Mount would badly need a rest.
Henry said something along the lines “he gave Gallagher the ball so I guess it was an assist”. Obviously, he was indicating he was far more impressed with Gallagher’s part of the play.
I don't think Henry puts much value into Pulisic assist as the goal Gallagher scored. The assist is really a 10-90 assist..basically, the goal scorer did 90% of the work while Pulisic gets 10% credit....meaning Gallagher had to do a lot to score this goal, including evading a defender from his blind side before shooting from long distance. The fact that Potter did not bother giving Pulisic any minutes in the following match tells us he also didn't think much of the assist. But it is still an assist and counts the same as assisting someone for a tap-in.