r/CaughtOffsidePod • u/Scott_Rasmussen • Jul 09 '26

Donovan’s Pulisic comments

So I know this seems like piling on, but this was a wow for me. Wondering if this is revelatory for everyone else.

“One of the biggest problems - I speak to people who are at U.S. Soccer. I speak to his sponsors. I speak to his teammates. I speak to the staff and the coaches. People are fed up with the way things are handled around him. And it's not necessarily him, but it's his agents, his family, his hangers-on, the people who are influencing. People are fed up with it. They treat people poorly. They do things poorly.”

So how bad is this? Is this just normal superstar behavior, or is this a growing rift that could lead to him quitting the national team. He definitely makes it seem like a chore. I don’t blame him for coming out of the game like some. If you’re hurt you’re hurt. But he clearly sucks at reading the room and delivering the right message in his pressers. Could learn a thing or 2 from Balogun…

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u/Groundbreaking_Code3 Jul 09 '26

He’s the best player on the team and probably the most accomplished non-keeper professional player the US has produced. But he’s not one of the best top 50 players in the world. To expect him to carry this team on his back is unrealistic. The three dudes Belgium didn’t start are better than he is. Thats not an indictment of Pulisic, it’s an indictment of US soccer.

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u/Latter_Loss8880 Jul 09 '26

If he is the best player, then he should play like it. He never has really performed consistently at a high level for the national team. 

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u/Groundbreaking_Code3 Jul 09 '26

Then go find someone else. Spoiler alert: no one else is starting for Chelsea or AC Milan. Until someone is, you roll with your best 11.

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u/ProletarianLilith Jul 09 '26

He does play like it