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Totally agree!!! To get that ,the club needs to put CP on the pine for the rest of the season and team USA needs to play without him until the fall WC qualifiers start!

Yes this worries me too...team USA is better with him, but long term he would be better off sitting the summer out.

Regardless of what either of us thinks of his talent level or his body's ability to handle the rigors of top league football, as an Orthopedic Surgeon I can tell you that he has not been given the proper time to heal. Chelsea is indeed responsible for his continued struggles with this hamstring problem as they continue to put him in, if only for mop up duty. You are not going to get CP that you want if you do not allow him to heal. Chelsea wants him healthy, but their medical staff do not make the decisions. This happens at all levels of professional sports, medical professionals can offer their medical advice, but it is often trumped by the needs and wants of the team.

Everybody is entitled to their opinion even if it's wrong. He has not been fit in a long time. When he was fit he was very much on his game. Chelsea are the reason he is not fit. You have an entire squad of elite players, leave Pulisic alone to heal. Mount is a great player too and I love his defending, but I don't see him as much of an offensive threat as CP (unless he is on a set piece, he has considerable skill at that). Football fans are always what have you done for me lately...I get that...Chelsea has a track record of making sh*t poor decisions with their players Debrune and Salah come to mind. Pulisic will be another swing and miss if they do not allow him to heal. He needs 3 months of rest...no training period, outside of walking.

He needs the proper time to heal! Chelsea staff need to let him do that. When he is healthy he is the best player on Chelsea's roster and it is not even close. If Chelsea mess around and let him leave, it will come back to haunt them! He will find his way back to an EPL side and will one day make Chelsea look foolish.

Well, he has not been given the proper amount of time for hamstring tear. Whether that be on him for saying he is ready, or on the staff for rushing him back. A regular Joe would take 8 weeks to heal this type of injury enough to where they could resume normal activity. I professional footballer, I would say needs at least 3 months on the pine. Even then he may never come back 100%. I am not a professional athlete, but I tore both my calf muscles playing footie in the back yard. I took at least two months to heal to where I could walk without a limp. To this day I can no longer run. If I take off on a light sprint, I wont get 20 yards before I pull up. That is after having stretched for 20 minutes. Muscle injuries suck!!! Give me a broken bone any day! Bones heal stronger...muscles are never the same after a tear.

I don’t know about all that. If you or your parents are American citizens you should be able to play for the US. American pride, grit and heart will only go so far and is not any more special than other country’s pride. If you want to win at the highest level you need talent. We have have athletes but to gain the skill set to compete globally our players definitely need to be playing in Europe. MLS is growing and getting better, but will always be a farm/senior league.

He only played the first half but looked great! He looked like the CP we all have come accustomed to. Yes it is against Jamaica, but he was threatening most of the first half and was creating havoc for defenders. I am glad the US gaffer pulled him after the first half. He got to see what he could do and is keeping him healthy.

Yes he us frustrated because he is injured and cannot do what he wants to do. Everytime he wants to make a quick burst he is feeling than hamstring tighten like it could pop. I have had these muscle injuries and they suck.

Everything said is true. He has not fully come back from the hamstring injury and he may well not be for the rest of the season. Pulisic however has an excuse! The rest of Chelsea is putrid in the attack. Chelsea spent all that money on German royalty and it has not panned out! TT brand of football is boring and makes my eyes bleed. Yay...Chelsea will finish in 4th place every year!

Get a clue, he has barely seen the pitch since TT took over. He is playing tentative for sure with the little time he does get, protecting that hammy. He will be back. Every player I have ever seen get a bad hammy injury, took a long time to make it back. Heck our boy Hazard has not been worth a piss since he left Chelsea due to injuries.

He is not healed. He is healed enough to be out on the pitch, but not really. He is playing tentative because he is scared of reinjuring his hammy. It is obvious really, makes it looks like he is not trying, because he is holding back out of fear.

Pulisic is at his best and most dangerous playing out wide on the left wing. If we had Fabregas in his prime with CP, it would be scoring frenzy!!

You are right...I dont agree with you. Some injuries are very hard to heal, especially muscle tears, they are not like bones that heal stronger, once torn they will always be a weak spot. Pulisic just needs time to heal, he really should sit the rest of the season and not play at all to be honest. Even having said that, I don’t think Chelsea is the right fit for him and he should move on.

I am not saying he would not have to fight to play at Bayern...what I am saying is he is not playing now and the players selected over him are not doing squat either. Chelsea is winning or drawing on defense rightt now. Their attacking game has been putrid at best. As for Christian, we don’t even know what his form is, as he is coming in on mop up duty. Chelsea once they get a 1 goal lead look like just tighten up the D and play keep away. So far it has worked well enough to not lose, but that is not going to fly over the long hall. Chelsea has got to find an attack or the forunate good run of results will run dry!

Christian has had nagging injuries that have made this season a wash, but I honestly think Chelsea was not a good fit for him to start with, at least not at this stage in his career. Chelsea is the team I support, but as someone from the US, I support Pulisic as well. I think Pulisic should leave Chelsea and go to another team. Chelsea changes managers every two years almost like clock work and being a very wealthy team they stockpile talent. Him having to fight for playing time is not helping his career or the US national team. He needs to be starting somewhere once he has completely healed, if that is even a possibility. The Bayern Munich whispers that have surfaced sound like a really good situation for him if it happens. I will hate not seeing him play as much, as the US TV is almost exclusively EPL, at least for English language channels. Chelsea is winning without him, even if the brand of football TT brought is very boring to watch, Ws is what matters.