segment. We're going to talk about Christy and politic being
the hero for Chelsea.
Obviously scored a 90th minute, winner against West Ham. I was
at the bridge for that. It went absolutely Bonkers,
but the bigger questions around policy was. So, what is next
for him at Chelsea? Perhaps? Where is next? From Willie,
move on this summer. There's a lot of talk about his future
even after
a go like this, but,
but Nick, the angry celebration from Pellissippi seems to do
that. Most times when he scored. But we saw it
specifically at Chelsea this weekend. What do you think is
next for him?
At Chelsea as we focus on this because he's still got a quite
a big finish to the season coming up for the blows. If you
ever watched a TV show for so many years that you feel like
you've seen every plot line before.
That's what I feel. Like when I see the poor sick, angry
celebration my God, we're doing this one again. Defiant
probably should have been playing and you get that
competitors.
Are,
are not want to be on the bench.
Some just never get used to it, but it teams like Chelsea and
even Liverpool right like times when Bobby for me know gets out
of the lineup or or somebody like that. I just don't know if
this is a guy
who doesn't
and I don't like this but doesn't have to be the man
just doesn't have to know if he's healthy. He's playing
like, you know when Mohamed Salah gets subbed out and
Jürgen klopp, he gets that look like I can't believe
you're taking me out of the game. I feel like polo sticks
already there in his head and
It doesn't mean he's not a team player or anything like that.
It just made me he's not fit for a club like Chelsea.
That's a really good point. I've actually never thought
about like that, because like he said, it seems to keep
being a reoccurring theme. I think about when Frank Lampard
left him out the first, you know, few months and he came
back and scored a hat-trick against Burnley. And then, even
for the US Men's National Team recently, we got left out for
that. Qualifier against Honduras came on scored
and he just seems to really enjoy having that chip on his
shoulder, right? Andy. I mean, we talked about it a lot with
him and some players almost need that edge to prove people
wrong and say, you know what? I'm fired up here and they're
not
maybe At their best when they're smiling and actually
happy, which is kind of weird. But some players are really,
really good. And they can just be enjoying the game all
the time. But,
pull-ups. It's kind of got a different vibe to him.
Yeah, one of the things that I wonder about a lot because
I think we have a tendency or you know, just tempting to not
think of footballers are athletes in any sport as
humans. And Joe, you could probably speak to this better
than anyone because you're at Stamford Bridge from time to
time, you know speaking with
pool stick, speaking with other players speaking with to Google.
What is kind of his,
I guess standing or relationship within the squad
as well? Because it does seem to be a fairly fairly
close-knit Squad. There's a lot of young players. There's some
Veterans as well. It feels like
maybe he doesn't fit into any of those groups and and and
you know, socially or just within the dressing room and
then you kind of extrapolate that onto the field and it just
makes me wonder a little bit about,
you know, how he's viewed by various different managers. Now
because it's been multiple managers that have had this
exact or he Has had I will say this exact same issue with and
we just keep having this plot line running over and over
again. We
always focused on the fit on the field and how the play
would be when he moved to Chelsea. But what about
the rest of the stuff? It has that been a good fit for him since
he's gone to Stamford Bridge.
I don't know. I don't know if he's a player that's ever
really enjoyed the spotlight even though he's you know,
the savior of the US Men's National Team, the superstar that they
always wanted. I feel like being at Chelsea. There's a lot
of that as well in terms of the media.
Use being in and around London.
If I speak specifically about what I see, it staff original.
I'm there as you guys know working in the Press Box for
quite a long time after the full time whistle. So you see
all the players kind of filter out. Usually in groups, you
know,
rudiger and coverture. The weekend were hanging out together.
A lot of the Chelsea Academy Lads will come out together.
And I just noticed I was at
Chelsea West Ham
and then Arsenal Chelsea where he didn't play at all, but pull
us, it came out on his own both times
with one of those. Backpacks that you kind of every youth
soccer player. America seems to have with which a huge almost
bigger than themselves.
We have to end. It just kind of walking around
the pitch on his own and
yeah, I guess when you do mention stuff like that,
I didn't really think about it, but there is maybe somebody
language things, that maybe seem like, it isn't a good fit.
But that being said, when you look at social
media, the celebrations
players are spoken to it Chelsea, they will really
appreciate its quality and I think really like him
but yeah, maybe. Not the best fit overall. I think maybe
a lot. Most of us said that right when he first signed for
Chelsea for Dortmund that it might have been
the wrong choice that perhaps the wrong time, but jumping on
it comes to mind because when he's with the national team, he
is the guy. He and and that's not just because he's, you
know, seen as the best player or has the biggest platform of
anybody in the team. I think he's seen as the leader and and
maybe the best friend of everybody on the team.
And so it's almost come to completely different people
that we see when he goes to National Team camp. And when
he's at Chelsea, See, it's a little startling. Honestly
it is it is it's almost like soon as he gets on that plane
it. So I'm American full of sick. I'm, you know, totally
different and this is the role that I play. What do we make
Nick of the comments? Because I did actually sit down and asked
Thomas to call in the post-match press conference
about, you know,
but perhaps his plan for pull up stick and the fact I said,
you know, you've you've left him out the last couple of
weeks. So you brought him on today. It worked out pretty
well. And his response was well, I don't think Christian
will see it that way. Any kind of
half left and Then just went on to describe that, he's been
lacking a bit of energy since he played for the u.s. In that
final round, the World Cup qualifiers,
when he went had the big trips of see, Costa Rica, Mexico
and to Florida and how big a toll, I think that took on him
because he was, you know, the Talisman that drag the us over
the line.
But yeah, he kind of just said as well, that he got a lot of
chances earlier in the season. And now, it's team over at her
and Kai, have it to been playing pretty well in recent
weeks and
pull us. It came out
not in response to that, but in a separate interview you and
said, you know, I had to prove myself that I wanted to be on
the pitch and wanted to be playing
and it was like a
it was interesting video. I took from the Press Box after
they are focused on looks sick, it sort of smiling and waving
to the fans and then as he was going down, the tunnel walked
past Thomas to call
who was shaking the hands and celebrating over Chelsea
players, but they kind of just blanked each other and pull us.
It went straight down the tunnel and
usmnt fans, of course on Twitter or
perhaps read into that a little bit more than they should have.
And Maybe created a bit more drama, but what do we think
about these comments? Because to called loves politic coach
to the Dortmund. But
it doesn't really seem to
want to build this Chelsea team around him, and I guess we've,
some of the injuries and loss in form and big ups and downs.
Can you blame him for that?
Well, he can't really build around a Winger in his system.
I mean, that's a, that's a big part of. It. It might be
a positional mismatch. Like, what all that said.
I think tokens comments are essentially a long, you know,
if this was a sitcom, you to be saying that it's Christian.
Like I think there's an understanding that this is,
this is the guy, this is the competitor. This
this is how he functions
and I just think it's very difficult for.
We talked about adjustments
to come from being the man like you talk about. What
work. What's a good fit for pulis? It was a good fit for
a holistic is Borussia, Dortmund? Be like, the not that there
isn't competition there.
You know, be the man
at Chelsea, you have Timo burner
and Kai averts. Who are incredible Internationals for
Germany. You have romelu. Lukaku is incredible.
International for Belgium, by the way, he's not happy either.
I wonder why these guys are.
And let's be honest. It's the wide receiver. If we will, to
make the American Football comparison. The scores are
known as kind of the
little bit brooding. It has to be my way guy. And I just,
I think that's how it is,
and are examples of that to go back in time.
Time. I don't want to make, you know, let's just compare
American players, but,
you know, Landon Donovan was under the microscope. For
a number of reasons is not necessarily being the right fit
for different reasons. And
Clint Dempsey had a Vibe as well. He was just a little bit
more blue collar, folksy, and I think it was a little bit more
fun.
So I don't know if I'm answering your question, but
I think in some ways there's nothing to worry about and in
other ways, if you want him playing every week
again, like I said before, it's not
Chelsea fit. Yeah, Andy,
obviously, we focus on political a lot because we have
usmnt, we focus on them a lot. And you know as a US Network we
know that full of sick is
most people that are watching our shows
want to talk about him and he's a huge talking point. And
this season he has proven at times. He's a team player. He's
played at wingback, he shipped in here and there.
He's dug deep, but there are Whispers quite consistent
Whispers.
And transfer rumor Mills. I mean
that he may move on this summer. He's got two years left
in this Chelsea contract. He spoke about that before recent
Champions League game and said, I'm not really thinking about
that or talk about at the end of the season. So
straight up in your opinion. Do you think you should leave
Chelsea this summer?
Here's Thomas Duke. I'm going to be the manager next season.
I guess would be my first question because I think Nick
brings up a really good point. There about a Winger to build
a system around. 42 goal at guy who doesn't play Wingers.
I don't think playing wingback or a false 9 or on the right
wing even was what pool stick went to Chelsea for. A few
years ago. I don't think that was the plan and so
when he gets there in the manager changes as quickly as
it does and then it changes again, we knew this was going
to happen and we knew this
Going to be a possibility for any player going there.
So I would I would guess that probably he's not there at
the start of next season given
he's becoming pretty clear that his side
would like a move away. And I think there's going to be
I think that's going to be reciprocated
by Chelsea this summer as well because they're going to have
the financial issues of the sale of the club. What are they
going to have available to reinvest into the squad?
They're going to probably need to raise some funds, to be able
to make some signings themselves as well.
So it just seems like I kind of the perfect time for everybody
to part ways and go do something different and I think
for the US Men's National
Team, especially
who wasn't getting into a
pan to a club in a spot where he can
not be the man. I don't think he needs to do that. I just
think he needs to be and
you know
a club and a team that functions properly and just
doesn't have the chaos going around all the time where you
can focus just on playing not about where he fits into
the squad. Not about what the manager thinks of him not
about.
You know do I have friends in London or whatever?
Just be able to focus on the game and playing because
I don't know if you know this the World Cups in about seven
months. Yeah. Anything plan regularly for that, right?
I mean, he's 23 years of age. Now next we've kind of gone past
that you know young Prodigy and it seems like it's been around
forever, but
he needs to be playing week in week out. Now. It seems to get
to that next level where we all know. He has the potential and
the quality to do that.
No, it's here's your example
and and it's It stinks right now because everything's been
so poor but
swap him and retire, listen,
and he's playing every week as the absolute focus of Everton
and their different players. I was with Charleston is
a physically imposing guy. But if your child is in playing at
the same amount as Chelsea, are, we not hearing about him having
a chip on his shoulder. So
again, when we talk about, if he has to be the man and if he
has to play every game, I really do think that's when you
have to talk about a move. And so, the reason I, when you
asked any question, I was glad you asked him and not me
because my
That would be, can we ask Christian? Because if he wants
to compete for Champions Leagues, he's got a stomach
that he's going to go a month where he doesn't play a lot.
And then he's going to play eight games in a row after
that, because that's
how it works at these clubs. Riyad mahrez has been
an absolutely phenomenal signing for Man City that I was wrong
about because I didn't think he could take not being the man
and he's done it
and probably when one of their most consistent contributors
for two years. Yeah. Absolutely. I think the big
question now is As if he doesn't leave Chelsea, where
should you go? What caliber what level of team because,
you know, Barcelona have been linked has been linked with
perhaps going to Bayern Munich or even event and some of
the finances you're not sure because Chelsea will be
asking for a lot of money for him with two years left on his
contract and all the other commercial viability around
them. Of course, Chelsea situation. I think, just delays
things a little bit, the fact that the ownership, the new
ownership situation is dragging on little bit longer, have
already seen are
Antonia rudiger leaving because of that. And
Maybe some Chelsea players or maybe just getting a little bit
a little bit edgy about their Futures. And how do I fit into
this? And perhaps I want to move on and to get that with
those Wheels in Motion, but personally, I you brought up
Everton. They can always spoken about this. Personally,
if they stay up and Frank Lampard is still there.
I think all of us have played some of his best football of
his career under Frank Lampard and he's a manager that plays
out and out Wingers and that might be a good fit.
Slightly a step down from Chelsea, of course, but
they do say A up. I think you could do a lot worse than go in
there and being the main man because I do think taking it
full circle.
I do not think he's a player that really wants to sit on
the bench again. Not saying it's a team player. Just looking at
everything in this career
and how sort of annoyed he seems to get and not playing
and every player wants to play. I get it but he seems to be
a player that needs to be playing week in week out to be its
best. Look at all his good spouse for the US and for
Chelsea,
when he's been fit
and consistently playing, he's always been at his best last
point to you Nick. Manto, Andy. I was going to say loan. Them
who says no
problem. Yeah, America.
No, that's you play session game. Yeah, no disrespect to
fall on, but he needs to be at a higher level. Now. He needs
to be in a team that
functions properly and, and
in a word defends as well.
Okay? All right, so that one goes out, Everton that rules
out, man united, that rule that rules out. A lot of teams that
probably within the Premier League, he could go to
man, you know, it's a good one. Obviously, we've all seen
the photo of him outside Old Trafford as a youngster. So
maybe it was meant To be. But let's see what the rebuild
their
how that goes on the Eric 10 hog, but
and let's see how the summer goes for Christine pelisek.
It's going to be really interesting. So we'll have
the latest Transfer News US Men's National Team news office.
You'll be in action for the US this summer, in plenty of games
over at pro soccer, talking MC sports.com, but have all that
good stuff and a really intriguing story line. I think
to see how things play out. But Christine pelisek in the final
weeks of this Premier League season, and he's got the FA Cup
Final, don't
forget. And I feel like
the stars are written there from to be a bit of a hero.
And especially against Liverpool.