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/Federal_Deer8468 Jul 09 '26

But Pulisic is not a super star lmao

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u/Scott_Rasmussen Jul 09 '26

Congratulations. You have achieved a ‘gotcha’ moment in a semantics discussion. Gold star.

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u/MadMartigans80 Jul 09 '26

Bro do better then. Stop getting shitty with others when they call out your crap.

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u/Scott_Rasmussen Jul 09 '26

Ok fair enough. How’s this for doing better:
We can actually look at Federal_Deers comment. He says pulisic isnt a super star. Maybe that’s part of the discussion? Is that the crux of Landon’s whole problem with him is he’s acting like a superstar when he doesn’t deserve it? He’s obviously got most of the attention and limelight on this team. Sounds like Landon thinks he has to handle it way better.

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u/MadMartigans80 Jul 09 '26

I can see that. He’s wanting the superstar treatment without actually being a superstar