Dortmund chief says Pulisic will thrive in the Premier League
Borussia Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc believes that Christian Pulisic will adapt very quickly to life in the Premier League and will definitely thrive at Chelsea.
Chelsea officially announced the signing of United States winger Pulisic for a fee of €64 million on their website on January 2, with the 20-year-old set to join the Blues at the end of the 2018-19 season.
And Zorc is confident that the player’s self-confidence and positive body language will help him take the next big step in his career.
“He’s a lad who comes with that typically American self-confidence,” Zorc told ESPN at Dortmund’s training camp in Marbella.
“Many of his characteristics will help him in England where everything is just little bit more intense than in the Bundesliga.
“He has the pace, he’s got the dribbling, he wants to get ahead at all costs. I don’t know a single reason why he wouldn’t make it there.”
Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri has said that he knew little of the deal for Pulisic until the transfer was all-but complete, though Zorc has revealed that talks with the Blues had been ongoing for a while.
“We took a collective decision with Christian’s family and his agent that we would transfer him in the summer of 2019 if he didn’t want to extend his contract with us,” Zorc added.
“That decision was taken, and it then came to pass over the last few months.
“It wasn’t a case of talks with Chelsea starting at Christmas and being concluded on New Year’s Eve – this had been going on for weeks if not to say months.”
