The goalkeeper believes that his countryman has what it takes to be a success at Stamford Bridge <\/p>\n
U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard believes that his international team-mate Christian Pulisic will be a hit at Chelsea.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pulisic sealed a\u00a0\u00a358\u00a0million (\u20ac64m\/$73m) move to Chelsea this week, with the 20-year-old set to stay at Borussia Dortmund on loan for the rest of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Howard knows what it takes to succeed in the English top flight, having spent 13 seasons in the Premier League with Manchester United and Everton.\u00a0<\/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 And the 39-year-old, now with the\u00a0Colorado Rapids in MLS, thinks that Pulisic\u00a0can become another American success story in England.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The Premier League presents its own trials and tribulations, it’s a rough-and-tumble league, it’s up and down, but he’s shown to be pretty strong even though he’s not the biggest guy in the world,” Howard told ESPN FC<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I think his talents will lend themselves very well to the way Chelsea play football.”<\/p>\n The Blues may be one of the Premier League’s most high-profile sides, but Howard believes that the experience Pulisic\u00a0has gained at Dortmund will serve him well in his next career move.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It is a massive club, but he’s played for a massive club already,” the goalkeeper said.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Dortmund is no slouch, and he went there under Jurgen Klopp and he’s grown up there and learned a lot of his trade in the Bundesliga.”<\/p>\n The amount Chelsea paid\u00a0Dortmund\u00a0more than tripled the largest transfer fee ever paid for an American player, which is partly due to Pulisic’s\u00a0performances for the U.S. national team.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pulisic\u00a0has scored nine times in 23 appearances for the United States, and carried the team through their ultimately unsuccessful campaign to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n Howard saw those performances firsthand, and insists that Pulisic\u00a0is ready to live up to his huge price tag.\u00a0<\/p>\n “He’s played a big part for the U.S. national team, so as much as the price tag is massive, which it is, he’s ready to perform.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The goalkeeper believes that his countryman has what it takes to be a success at Stamford Bridge U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard believes that his international team-mate Christian Pulisic will be a hit at Chelsea.\u00a0 Pulisic sealed a\u00a0\u00a358\u00a0million (\u20ac64m\/$73m) move to Chelsea this week, with the 20-year-old set to stay at Borussia Dortmund on loan for…<\/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-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n