The USA international discusses his ambitions at Chelsea, playing alongside Jadon Sancho for Dortmund and whether he can emulate Eden Hazard’s success at the club.
Christian Pulisic speaks exclusively to Sky Sports after arriving at Chelsea from his loan at Borussia Dormund.
Watch video Christian Pulisic – skills, goals and assists.
Christian Mate Pulisic is an American professional soccer player who plays as an attacking midfielder or a winger for Premier League club Chelsea and the United States national team.
Pulisic’s arrival is one of the few certainties at a club in flux. The likelihood is he will never play alongside Eden Hazard, a player vigorously courted by Real Madrid and with a parting of the ways seeming inevitable. Doubt persists, too, over the identity of the head coach.
Maurizio Sarri has secured Champions League football and steered the team into next week’s Europa League final, but it says everything about his uneasy relationship with club and support that should Juventus offer to buy out his contract Chelsea’s resistance may be perfunctory.
Christian Pulisic’s first interview since arriving at Chelsea
Then there is Fifa’s two-window transfer ban, a sanction the club have yet to raise with the court of arbitration for sport as they continue to await the written reasons for the rejection of their original appeal by the governing body.
There remains the possibility that Mateo Kovacic’s loan move from Real Madrid is made permanent and there will be a flurry of loan returns.
But Pulisic’s arrival, for £58m, may provide the only injection of new blood to a collective who, perhaps optimistically, still aspire to shatter Manchester City’s domestic dominance.
Not that the 20-year-old American is daunted by what lies ahead. A few days observing training at Cobham, and speaking with Sarri, have strengthened belief that his decision to move to London was sound.
There’s no doubt City had a great season, but Chelsea … there’s a champion mentality at this club,” he said. “They are a confident group of guys who understand we have a long way to go, but we have a great squad already and everyone wants to take the steps so we can compete right away.