Christian Pulisic will have no issues adapting to life in the Premier League and will thrive at Chelsea, according to Borussia Dortmund s sporting director Michael Zorc.
Chelsea confirmed the signing of 20-year-old Pulisic on January 2 for a fee of €64million, with the winger remaining at Dortmund on loan until the end of 2018-19 as they aim to secure their first Bundesliga title since 2012.
Pulisic has enjoyed a stellar rise to prominence at Dortmund since joining the club in 2015, and Zorc has no doubts over the youngster s ability to take the Premier League by storm.
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.
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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.
Pulisic s signing has cast doubt over Eden Hazard s future at Stamford Bridge, while winger Callum Hudson-Odoi is of interest to Dortmund s Bundesliga rivals Bayern Munich.
