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<\/p>\nPulisic hasn\u2019t played in four of his club\u2019s last six matches and has spoken of his frustration at not featuring as much as he wants to.<\/p>\n
He was left out of Chelsea\u2019s squad completely for the Champions League win away at Lille and was named on the bench for Sunday\u2019s match at Southampton before coming on for the final 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes I have to make harsh decisions and say something that I see can help their game but might not sound that nice because I want them to be the best, all of them. That\u2019s what I want them to be. That\u2019s part of the process.<\/p>\n
\u201cChristian Pulisic has a price tag. Ross Barkley is an international player. Mason Mount is an international player, Callum Hudson-Odoi just signed a new contract, Bayern Munich wanted to buy him last summer. He\u2019s an international player.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can all focus on Pulisic from the other day but Callum\u2019s the same and I have to speak in the real world when I speak to them and sometimes as a manager you want more.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to be honest and the players have to react to that and Callum has now come on with two assists in the games that he\u2019s come on and that\u2019s what you want to keep pushing. I love the young players. I particularly love the young players because I want them to improve daily,\u201d Lampard said according to ESPN.<\/p>\n
Pulisic, 21, signed for Chelsea in January and was immediately loaned back to Borussia Dortmund for the remainder of last season.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has said Christian Pulisic\u2019s ongoing omission from the team, is part of a \u201charsh\u201d decision-making process. Pulisic hasn\u2019t played in four of his club\u2019s last six matches and has spoken of his frustration at not featuring as much as he wants to. He was left out of Chelsea\u2019s squad completely for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,1397,9559,12101],"class_list":["post-158187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-chelsea","tag-christian-pulisic","tag-frank-lampard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}