Former United States international Alexi Lalas believes a current star of the USMNT should be looking to leave Borussia Dortmund <\/p>\n
Christian Pulisic is attracting interest from the likes of Chelsea and Liverpool, and the United States international has been told by Alexi Lalas that it is \u201ctime for a change\u201d.<\/p>\n
At just 20 years of age, the highly-rated midfielder is already into a fourth season as a senior star at Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n
He has made over 100 appearances for the Bundesliga club and has become a leader for his country just 23 caps into a promising career.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Big things are expected of Pulisic, and it is expected that his full potential will be unlocked outside of Germany.<\/p>\n Premier League interest is said to be building, with Goal having confirmed Chelsea\u2019s interest, and former USMNT team star Lalas believes the time is right for a big-money move.<\/p>\n He told Cowherd<\/em>: \u201cThere are teams all over the world that would love to have Christian Pulisic right now.<\/p>\n \u201cI think he\u2019s done a great job in going over to Germany, he\u2019s done a great job at Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think it\u2019s time for a change right now for Christian Pulisic, and a change to an even higher profile team.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Lalas added of a man being charged with the task of helping America to recover from the disappointment of failing to reach the 2018 World Cup: \u201c[Pulisic] is one of the phenoms in the world, he just happens to be American.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s going to be pressure to win, and to deliver. He\u2019s a very young player so he\u2019s still getting better.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s still physically growing, he\u2019s growing as a soccer player. There\u2019s a lot of pressure on his shoulders to lead us [USMNT] into the Promised Land.<\/p>\n \u201cBut if you\u2019re the man, you\u2019re gonna take it and say: \u2018Yeah, on my watch, we\u2019re going to make sure we qualify for the next World Cup. I am going to lead this team by example\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Pulisic\u2019s current contract with Dortmund is only due to run until the summer of 2020, so they may be forced into a sale at some point.<\/p>\n They can demand a hefty fee for his services at this stage, but the strength of their hand in talks will start to wane as terms run down.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former United States international Alexi Lalas believes a current star of the USMNT should be looking to leave Borussia Dortmund Christian Pulisic is attracting interest from the likes of Chelsea and Liverpool, and the United States international has been told by Alexi Lalas that it is \u201ctime for a change\u201d. At just 20 years of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n