Christian Pulisic will finish the season with Borussia Dortmund. Francisco Seco/Associated Press
Chelsea has paid Borussia Dortmund $73 million to complete the signing of Christian Pulisic, making the 20-year-old the most expensive American player in history by some distance.
Though moving to the Premier League has “always been Christian’s dream,” according to Dortmund’s technical director, Michael Zorc, Pulisic will have to wait six months for it to be realized. He will spend the remainder of this season on loan at the Bundesliga leader, before joining up with Maurizio Sarri’s team in the summer.
In a heartfelt statement posted on Twitter on Wednesday morning, Pulisic thanked the German club for the “opportunities” it had offered him since he arrived as a “raw, excited, very nervous but exceptionally proud 16-year-old from a small American town called Hershey.