At several different junctures, you could have made a convincing case that Christian Pulisic’s move to Chelsea from Borussia Dortmund, agreed to in January 2019 and completed last summer, was a mistake.
Such was the glut of Chelsea wingers and attacking midfielders that it looked unlikely that the Hershey, Pennsylvania, native would even play all that much, in spite of his enormous $73 million price tag. Or so I argued.
Back in the fall, when, sure enough, he had trouble getting onto the field for Chelsea as it rebuilt under first-year manager Frank Lampard, there seemed to be hope that things would improve in the second half of the season, but that expectations should nevertheless remain modest.