Oh my god...guys, don´t shit your pants...
He´s playing at a young age. Okay.
He can dribble past a defender. Nice, he has offensive skill.
He is from the US. Everybody shit your pants.
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Honestly, players at that young age can go from top to bottom within a few weeks. It´s nice that he´s at a great developping club and gets regular playing time for now, but that won´t help him in February. If he gets an injured hamstring after the Transfer Deadline and gets out of the rotation because it spirals from there, it will affect his development. Dortmund yes, Dortmund no, if he´ll be out of form (someone remembering players like Neven Subotic/27, Adnan Januzaj/21, WC-winning Erik Durm/24, WC-winning Matthias Ginter/22? they´re at various stages of trouble with Borussia Dortmund due to declining form), he will be out of the Team and play at Dortmund II and then he´s gone.
Maybe you remember the saga about Martin Odegaard joining Real Madrid, instead of Bayern. Where is he now? He would maybe make it at Real II or Bayern II. Maybe...
And you guys are comparing him to Götze (who also has had huge troubles after a transfer), Fabregas, Messi. I´m not even laughing. Sad...Just let him develop, let him play from week-to-week and don´t get carried away after a great performance. And be honest, that wasn´t even a great performance yesterday! He was playing, he dribbled past a defender, he brought in a cross, someone (Auba?) should have been called for a foul on the overhead kick and then Schürrle stopped the ball. From there on, there was no part in the goal for Pulisic. Period. That was a superb finisher from Schürrle. He shot that thing through the roof. And Pulisic stood 25m away, he watched it, he learned how to hammer that thing home with your weak foot. That was his part in the goal. I know some of you may get carried away due to the hockey-style assist (last one who touched it before the goal), but he had no part in that goal. That´s 100% Schürrle. Some guy saying "he created the goal". Um, yes, fool yourself.
Build the team for WC 2018 around him? As a central midfielder, a No.10? The guy will be 19 years old, could finish his youth team season that summer (lol) and you want him to lead Team USA to Russia, playing in a group vs. probably two superior teams (that´s the probable scenario which looms). Klinsmann could give him the keys to the team, if he has two superb seasons. Then he (Pulisic) could fail like most guys that age would do. What would/could you expect from such a player? Nothing. He cannot lead his national team (he doesn´t lead Dortmund, he´s playing a half here, a half there and sometimes a complete match and sometimes not at all - he is a rotation option like 8!! other offensive guys and not indispensable) and would probably fail. He would learn much more in a supporting role on the wings, where he could help the team like he´s playing right now. The USMNT isn´t a team which is dominating possession and would dominate a match (other than the 3rd group match with a team like South Korea possibly), so they don´t need a superstrong No.10. Having great dribblers on the wings would help much more in a defensive, grinding system and he can play that role very good like we´re seeing. Let him there until after the WC and then change things (possibly - I would even doubt that,) after.
I mean Dortmund has Schürrle, Götze, Guerreiro, Dembele, Emre Mor, Reus (6 guys!) who are playing on the 2 wing positions in the 4-2-3-1 system. Then there´s Kagawa, Götze, Gonzalo Castro, who are regularly playing in the middle spot. There some kind of mixing with a 4-1-4-1 system, too, but they are having so many options, he could be gone without a match for 4 weeks and they have no problems it seems. Nobody remembers Spanish youth national player Mikel Merino, who had all his performances on the stadium seats - he wasn´t even on the regular 18man roster, yet.
Sorry for the rant (i´m getting a little bit carried away, so i´m writing more or less from what´s running through my head and not with much structure), but just because a guy can play a straight pass, he´s no Maradona. This is getting ridiculous.