Shout out to Olivier Giroud for helping to guide young players at Chelsea and Milan. Giroud is an incredible leader. He deserves a shout out for being there to support CP.
CP is leading Series A in goal involvements since joining Milan. CP was a top 10 scorer and better than that in assists in a top 5 league last season. CP is 3rd in scoring and 2nd in assists in the early going in Series A this season. CP has scored against Germany and Brazil internationally, and against Liverpool and Inter within the last year or so. CP is a legitimate player. He is a very good player. He is a talented player. He deserves and has earned every bit of praise he receives. For CP to be world class, which is a totally subjective definition, he needs to have a year similar to or better than last season, and Milan needs to have more success than they did last season, like winning Series A. But make no mistake, if CP isn't world class, he is very, very close. And that is a beautiful thing to watch. I am a US fan that has loved and played and coached this sport for all of my 54 years. I have waited my entire life for a truly amazing US player to emerge as it is proof that the sport is on the right trajectory in the US. CP has the minerals.
He isn't close I can list 100s of players with those so accolades you're just overhyped american talent as usual World class is minimum top 10 in your position and pulisic ain't even top 20 he might just sneak in top 30 but that's subjective
@@ozukabeats2456 Yeah. No. You can’t list 100s of players. Top 10 player in a top 5 league, 10x5=50. The math is simple. And since I posted this, he now has 5 goals and 2 assists in 7 games to go with his 15/11 haul last season, which means he is leading Series A in goal contributions since he joined the league. So now the math is even easier for you. #1 in a top five league, 5x1= (and pay attention here…) 5. I have made my case with objective facts and data. Prove me wrong with the same, or step off.
As a critic of Alexi's punditry, I confess that today's conversation was imho the best I've heard from this channel. Love the guitar analogy, Pep's analysis, and the great "question" about what Pep would do/be if he were coaching a team of different talent. This is the kind of conversation that makes soccer truly the "Beautiful Game"....
Pulisic needs at least one more club season and to show continued progression before we start throwing around the WC label. He's clearly in good form right now. He looks like one of the best, if not the best, player on the pitch in matches this season. He's sort of been quietly dominating Serie A over the past year.
I wouldn’t say Pulisic is WC right now, but I would definitely say that he’s playing at an elite level. I feel like this is why the rest of the world won’t take American fans seriously. We’re too quick to say players are WC! We need to just cool it a bit and see if he can do it on a consistent basis. Then, and only then would I say he is WC. But, yes, I agree he’s having a moment at AC Milan, and is showing people around the what he can do. I may not agree that it’s time to have the conversation just yet. But I also agree the whole idea of someone being WC is incredibly subjective, and varies widely from person to person.
Nailed right on There is a difference between form and class Pulisic needs to sustain this level for minimum 2 seasons to be considered elite and to be wc he needs to raise it another level Guys like rashford have far exceeded these levels pulisic is showing and still isn't considered world class
There is no "Anti American bias in England". Don't know why you think that. It's like you think the English get upset about calling it soccer when both football and soccer are English words and are both used by the English. It is just that "football" sounds better than "soccer ball" and footballer better than "soccer player" etc etc. Soccer is a slang word. When Pulisic played in the premier he always seemed to be injured. He is a good player but any professional footballer would look good at Real Madrid or Manchester City. If Gareth Bale had stayed at Tottenham would he of won 3 champions league titles ?
Lalas dislikes English football on account of being turned down by Arsenal. It’s as simple as that…He wasn’t much good in Italy either, lasting only two seasons!! The experience has left him bitter and twisted.
lol what did i hear Sacramento has a team? I live in the bay...there is a huge soccer culture here, yet only thing we get is SJ Quakes....they should move the team to SF proper, alot more people easier to access than SJ, and it would be a wild time....new stadium, come one daddy diamond, use those funds for another arena lol....we need an MLS team in SF!!!!
add charlotte and miami as a key game this weekend! if we can keep this new found style going that we saw last week i think we stand a chance against them. of course its one of the biggest gulfs in standings possible, so charlotte is going to need to not let up for a second. it will be fun to see how we do.
Christian Pulisic does not walk into Real Madrid, Manchester City or Bayern Munich and become a locked in weekly starter, which in most circles defines a world class player. There's a substantial gap between Serie A and the top 2 leagues.
You guys can't keep using the mythical "Anti American bias in England" excuse for not having top rated players. There is no England US rivalry. Many American players have been loved in England.
Exactly if you're good you are good no one cares where you come from The issue is when they start with the "I'm looked down on cause I'm american gimmick" whilst stinking up the pitch every matchday Name one american aside from pulisic thay actually performed in the league to a noticeably High standard P.s. I forget Robinson at times cause he is basically a scouser
Lalas just said… Michelangelo should be painting with sticks instead of the brushes…. Believe me Pep will make amateur team play with very clear idea and philosophy. Nonsense bro! He is an artist and we should enjoy his presence.
Well, can he please be word class in every USMNT match especially at the World Cup? It just seems to evaporate every time we get in a match where we need him. How many times we lost a Panama in the last three years and Christian was just out there running around but not scoring any goals. I’m happy. He’s doing great for AC Milan and he did great for a while at Chelsea and did really well at Dortmund but we need him in the US at home.
Have you seen Pulisic’s stats with the national team? And in the WC he literally scored or assisted on every goal we scored. You can’t really question his national team performances. He does have some bad games, but the tactics(horrible from Berhalter) and his teammates need to step up too
@@dtomcheck Yes I have seen the stats. It were class player puts the ball in the back of the net at the most critical times when it is absolutely needed. He is a better version of Landon Donovan and that’s all. World class is Messi or Suarez or Maradona or whoever on and on and on. A world-class player would get us past this mediocre get to the quarterfinals in the World Cup place. We’ve been stuck for the last 25 years. He’ll have one more chance and all I can say is let’s see it.
@@adrianbaker9451 He is definitely a top 10 player in Series A (leads Series A in goal involvements since arriving at AC Milan). Series A is a top 5 league. 10 x 5 =50. Top 50.
Not nominated for a Balón de Or. nominated world class players L.Martinez, Mbappe, Haaland, Yamal, Valverde, Kane, Carvajal, Foden. Pullisc is not even on the top 100 players according to MSN. So the answer is No. Good condition and scorer, yes, world class. NO
Name 100 players better then him based on just this season not prior seasons. I bet you can't name 20 player who have played better this season. Trying to use what people did 3 or 4 years ago is pointless because player rankings is based on what they are doing now not what they did 10 years ago.
@@codyshuler8145 I don’t claim to know 100 players better than him im just stating what companies like The Guardian have posted every year. Maybe they are bias maybe not, but I already listed players that are Balón de Or, nominees and in my honest opinion those are world class players.
@@Adriang.carballoliinc Thats a personal opinion. Only thing I know is Balón D’Or is decided decided by 100 journalists from FIFA's 100 top-ranked member nations. Each journalist makes their top five picks from the 30-person shortlist, with each ranking earning a different points value/number of votes. And No Pullisic.
Yes. We are to read between Mosse’s lines. Cannot read his facial features, but Mosse is clear enough for us to have a different opinion WHILE not being dialectical nor polarizing. They both make an awesome team. We need them both.
Alexi, stick to soccer instead of wasting our time listening to you talk about stories that you have no facts about and only one sides biased opinion. Thanks
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Do you think Pep Guardiola is ruining soccer?
Tim Howard is out of his mind. Few weeks back Tim said dont make Usmnt about yourself ti Potticheno, He is new Alexi😂
Absolutely not. Pep has revolutionized the game.
Whats ruining futbol are all the Guardiola wannabe coaches that want to play like him without the adequate players to execute his tactics.
Heck No!!
0-0 games are boring. I rather see blow outs. Make the other team practice harder and become more clever.
There is a difference between a run of form and world class
Shout out to Olivier Giroud for helping to guide young players at Chelsea and Milan. Giroud is an incredible leader. He deserves a shout out for being there to support CP.
CP is leading Series A in goal involvements since joining Milan.
CP was a top 10 scorer and better than that in assists in a top 5 league last season.
CP is 3rd in scoring and 2nd in assists in the early going in Series A this season.
CP has scored against Germany and Brazil internationally, and against Liverpool and Inter within the last year or so.
CP is a legitimate player. He is a very good player. He is a talented player. He deserves and has earned every bit of praise he receives.
For CP to be world class, which is a totally subjective definition, he needs to have a year similar to or better than last season, and Milan needs to have more success than they did last season, like winning Series A.
But make no mistake, if CP isn't world class, he is very, very close. And that is a beautiful thing to watch. I am a US fan that has loved and played and coached this sport for all of my 54 years. I have waited my entire life for a truly amazing US player to emerge as it is proof that the sport is on the right trajectory in the US. CP has the minerals.
He isn't close
I can list 100s of players with those so accolades you're just overhyped american talent as usual
World class is minimum top 10 in your position and pulisic ain't even top 20 he might just sneak in top 30 but that's subjective
@@ozukabeats2456 Yeah. No. You can’t list 100s of players. Top 10 player in a top 5 league, 10x5=50. The math is simple. And since I posted this, he now has 5 goals and 2 assists in 7 games to go with his 15/11 haul last season, which means he is leading Series A in goal contributions since he joined the league. So now the math is even easier for you. #1 in a top five league, 5x1= (and pay attention here…) 5. I have made my case with objective facts and data. Prove me wrong with the same, or step off.
As a critic of Alexi's punditry, I confess that today's conversation was imho the best I've heard from this channel. Love the guitar analogy, Pep's analysis, and the great "question" about what Pep would do/be if he were coaching a team of different talent. This is the kind of conversation that makes soccer truly the "Beautiful Game"....
Right on ! 👍
Pulisic needs at least one more club season and to show continued progression before we start throwing around the WC label. He's clearly in good form right now. He looks like one of the best, if not the best, player on the pitch in matches this season. He's sort of been quietly dominating Serie A over the past year.
I wouldn’t say Pulisic is WC right now, but I would definitely say that he’s playing at an elite level. I feel like this is why the rest of the world won’t take American fans seriously. We’re too quick to say players are WC! We need to just cool it a bit and see if he can do it on a consistent basis. Then, and only then would I say he is WC. But, yes, I agree he’s having a moment at AC Milan, and is showing people around the what he can do. I may not agree that it’s time to have the conversation just yet. But I also agree the whole idea of someone being WC is incredibly subjective, and varies widely from person to person.
Nailed right on
There is a difference between form and class
Pulisic needs to sustain this level for minimum 2 seasons to be considered elite and to be wc he needs to raise it another level
Guys like rashford have far exceeded these levels pulisic is showing and still isn't considered world class
Nice chat as always 👌
One thing that the Pundits don't give much air...Is that Italy is much warmer than England and therefore it is easier to avoid injuries.
What a load of nonsense!
There is no "Anti American bias in England". Don't know why you think that. It's like you think the English get upset about calling it soccer when both football and soccer are English words and are both used by the English. It is just that "football" sounds better than "soccer ball" and footballer better than "soccer player" etc etc. Soccer is a slang word. When Pulisic played in the premier he always seemed to be injured. He is a good player but any professional footballer would look good at Real Madrid or Manchester City. If Gareth Bale had stayed at Tottenham would he of won 3 champions league titles ?
Lalas dislikes English football on account of being turned down by Arsenal. It’s as simple as that…He wasn’t much good in Italy either, lasting only two seasons!! The experience has left him bitter and twisted.
lol what did i hear Sacramento has a team? I live in the bay...there is a huge soccer culture here, yet only thing we get is SJ Quakes....they should move the team to SF proper, alot more people easier to access than SJ, and it would be a wild time....new stadium, come one daddy diamond, use those funds for another arena lol....we need an MLS team in SF!!!!
add charlotte and miami as a key game this weekend! if we can keep this new found style going that we saw last week i think we stand a chance against them. of course its one of the biggest gulfs in standings possible, so charlotte is going to need to not let up for a second. it will be fun to see how we do.
I listen to this podcast with mossy at 1.25 speed and alexi at .75 speed in order to make it sound normal. Its a lot of work.
Fuuuuuunnnnnnn comment 😂
Christian Pulisic does not walk into Real Madrid, Manchester City or Bayern Munich and become a locked in weekly starter, which in most circles defines a world class player. There's a substantial gap between Serie A and the top 2 leagues.
More so a substantial gap between AC Milan and the teams you mentioned, less of a substantial gap between those leagues.
@@thewanderingsamurai1150nope ur just uneducated
The only two players that I would say are starting over him are Salah and Yamal. He's better than Rodrygo, Olise and especially Phil Frauden.
@@thewanderingsamurai1150There is a negative gap between the leagues.... Serie A is the best league in europe on average right now
@@whenisdinner2137 I would say all of those players are probably better than Pulisic but he’s top 10 at the right wing or maybe wing in general
Could Pep do what Xabi Alanso did with Leverkusen?
You guys can't keep using the mythical "Anti American bias in England" excuse for not having top rated players. There is no England US rivalry. Many American players have been loved in England.
Exactly if you're good you are good no one cares where you come from
The issue is when they start with the "I'm looked down on cause I'm american gimmick" whilst stinking up the pitch every matchday
Name one american aside from pulisic thay actually performed in the league to a noticeably High standard
P.s. I forget Robinson at times cause he is basically a scouser
Does anyone know why some days it’s at 5am and then today it’s 8am (Central Time Zone)
Just curious bc I just thought it was 5 but now I’m excited if there’s more
The kid is awesome and going to get even better.
Lalas just said… Michelangelo should be painting with sticks instead of the brushes…. Believe me Pep will make amateur team play with very clear idea and philosophy. Nonsense bro! He is an artist and we should enjoy his presence.
Well, can he please be word class in every USMNT match especially at the World Cup? It just seems to evaporate every time we get in a match where we need him. How many times we lost a Panama in the last three years and Christian was just out there running around but not scoring any goals. I’m happy. He’s doing great for AC Milan and he did great for a while at Chelsea and did really well at Dortmund but we need him in the US at home.
Have you seen Pulisic’s stats with the national team? And in the WC he literally scored or assisted on every goal we scored. You can’t really question his national team performances. He does have some bad games, but the tactics(horrible from Berhalter) and his teammates need to step up too
His one World Cup in 2022 CP had 1 goal and 2 assists. He was involved in every US goal and
@@dtomcheck Yes I have seen the stats. It were class player puts the ball in the back of the net at the most critical times when it is absolutely needed. He is a better version of Landon Donovan and that’s all. World class is Messi or Suarez or Maradona or whoever on and on and on. A world-class player would get us past this mediocre get to the quarterfinals in the World Cup place. We’ve been stuck for the last 25 years. He’ll have one more chance and all I can say is let’s see it.
Alexi I listen to lots of podcasts over an hour. Don’t listen to your producers we like to listen.
U made me laugh with that comment 😂😂😂
Pulisic is a top-50 player in the world, so yeah he's world class
Who says he's a top 50 player?
@@adrianbaker9451 I do, make a list he's more or less right there
@@tatiabril-k4h show me your list mate!
I’d say top 30
@@adrianbaker9451 He is definitely a top 10 player in Series A (leads Series A in goal involvements since arriving at AC Milan). Series A is a top 5 league. 10 x 5 =50. Top 50.
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Not nominated for a Balón de Or. nominated world class players L.Martinez, Mbappe, Haaland, Yamal, Valverde, Kane, Carvajal, Foden. Pullisc is not even on the top 100 players according to MSN. So the answer is No. Good condition and scorer, yes, world class. NO
Name 100 players better then him based on just this season not prior seasons. I bet you can't name 20 player who have played better this season. Trying to use what people did 3 or 4 years ago is pointless because player rankings is based on what they are doing now not what they did 10 years ago.
@@codyshuler8145 I don’t claim to know 100 players better than him im just stating what companies like The Guardian have posted every year. Maybe they are bias maybe not, but I already listed players that are Balón de Or, nominees and in my honest opinion those are world class players.
No way Foden is better 😅
@@Adriang.carballoliinc Thats a personal opinion. Only thing I know is Balón D’Or is decided decided by 100 journalists from FIFA's 100 top-ranked member nations. Each journalist makes their top five picks from the 30-person shortlist, with each ranking earning a different points value/number of votes. And No Pullisic.
Alexi's vanila so expect nothing much. Mosse will never cross Alexi
Yes. We are to read between Mosse’s lines. Cannot read his facial features, but Mosse is clear enough for us to have a different opinion WHILE not being dialectical nor polarizing. They both make an awesome team. We need them both.
Christian Pulisic is not a WC player. Robinho was :)
Define world class....this is essentially meaningless....lets see how he does under the Big Lights...World Cup
Alexi, stick to soccer instead of wasting our time listening to you talk about stories that you have no facts about and only one sides biased opinion. Thanks