{"id":812,"date":"2019-03-01T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/2019\/03\/01\/they-must-like-me-a-little-bit-pulisic-excited-for-chelsea-move-but-focused-on-dortmund\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T10:33:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:33:06","slug":"they-must-like-me-a-little-bit-pulisic-excited-for-chelsea-move-but-focused-on-dortmund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"&#039;They must like me a little bit!&#039; &#8211; Pulisic excited for Chelsea move, but focused on Dortmund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The winger recently completed a major move to the Premier League, but he&#8217;s focused on success in Germany first       <\/p>\n<p>Christian Pulisic is thrilled to be joining Chelsea, but the winger insists he&#8217;s focused on Borussia Dortmund&#8217;s pursuit of trophies most of all.<\/p>\n<p>The American winger will join Chelsea this summer after completing a \u20ac64 million (\u00a357.6m, $73.1m) deal to join the Premier League club.<\/p>\n<p>Pulisic says he is undaunted by the fee and, although he is excited about the eventual move, he&#8217;s only worried about his current club for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>Article continues below<\/span>  <\/p>\n<h3>Editors&#039; Picks<\/h3>\n<p>    Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter    Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea &amp; 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<p>&#8220;For [Chelsea] to do this and to want me this much I think yeah they must like me, at least a little bit,&#8221; Pulisic told ESPNFC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve said I&#8217;m very excited,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I&#8217;m really happy with the decision, but there is a time where I have to put it in the back of my head now, once the season gets going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the excitement and everything is great but I&#8217;m also really excited for the rest of the season here and you know we want to fight and doing everything we can here to see what can happen this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. National Team winger has earned the backing of\u00a0Borussia Dortmund director Michael Zorc following the move, while former Manchester United and Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard says his U.S. team-mate will find success in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Pulisic has faith that he&#8217;ll fit in well under Maurizio Sarri, who he has not spoken to since the move was finalized.<\/p>\n<p>Under Sarri, wingers are asked to defend as well as attack, and Pulisic is prepared to play in the Italian manager&#8217;s system once he makes the move to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The American star says he sees himself in one of the wide positions, but added he&#8217;s ready to play anywhere in the attack for Sarri.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think just from watching the games that I have been able to catch this year I just see a system in how their wingers play,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just a really good attacking, flowing system, and it&#8217;s just football that I like to watch. 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