Tim Howard has spoken up for Christian Pulisic. The American, who switched from Chelsea to AC Milan this summer for 20 million euros, always has to do more than anyone else in the eyes of the former goalkeeper. The reason? His origins. Howard claims that players from the United States are treated differently in the Premier League.
Pulisic joined Chelsea in January 2019, which paid no less than 65 million euros to Borussia Dortmund for the attacker’s services. The American won the Champions League, European Super Cup and World Cup for club teams, among other things, but closed the door of Stamford Bridge this summer due to a lack of playing time and top form. AC Milan offered a solution.
“As much as people want to say the landscape has changed for Americans, it hasn’t,” Howard said in the podcast Offside with Taylor Twellman. “I think Pulisic has done brilliantly at Chelsea. If he had been Dutch or Italian, he would still have been at Chelsea. He is so good, he is showing that now in Milan, but for Americans it is harder. You have to prove yourself every day.”
Howard himself has a decent track record in English football. The American goalkeeper joined Manchester United in 2003, where he played 77 official games in the main squad. Three years later he moved to Everton. On behalf of the Toffees he defended the goal 414 times. Howard played 120 times for the American national team.