Chelsea star Christian Pulisic said barely anyone noticed when he first arrived at the club. Coming off an all-tournament team performance in the 2019 Gold Cup with the United States Men’s National team, Pulisic had barely any break at all this summer.

It was just a few days between his departing Chicago, where the USMNT lost to Mexico in the Gold Cup Final, to Japan where he joined the rest of his new team for their preseason exhibition tour. Traveling and arriving by himself, his first appearance had no fanfare.

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With the exception of Belarus, South Korea and starting this Saturday, Germany, global football is currently suspended. There is talk of the Premier League making a mid-June return, and with that in mind, a possible resumption of team training in the next week or so.

However, there are still plenty of questions when it comes to Project Restart. Until we get there, we still have plenty of transfer talk to cover, as transfer rumors are one thing can survive anything. So let’s take a spin through the Chelsea FC transfer rumor mill community in cyberspace.

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With the exception of Belarus, global football is currently suspended. There is talk of the Premier League eying a potential mid-June return, and with that in mind, a possible May 18 return to team training for Chelsea FC. Of course, there are just more questions than answers right now with Project Restart.

The English top flight just doesn’t seem to have the same coherence and direction as the leading leagues in Germany, Spain and Italy right now. In the meantime, we still have transfer talk to do, so with that in mind, let’s take a spin through the Blues rumor mill.

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With the exception of Belarus, global football is currently suspended. There is talk of the Premier League eying a potential mid-June return, and with that in mind, a possible May 18 return to training for Chelsea FC.

With that in mind, the club have now called their foreign players, who travelled to their home countries for lockdown, back to the club. The list includes: goalkeeper Kepa Arizzabalaga, winger Pedro and left back Marcos Alonso who were all in Spain, central defender Andreas Christensen in Denmark, full back Emerson in Italy, winger Willian in Brazil and winger Christian Pulisic in the United States.

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The Premier League is determined to finish the 2019-20 season, but will do so only if a safe situation can come to fruition. Mid-June has been set as a target, with matches to be played behind closed doors in neutral venues. There are a lot of ifs standing in the way of making this happen, and the widespread availability of coronavirus testing is paramount.

Chelsea manager Frank Lampard, conveying proper perspective and acknowledgment of where football resides in the societal pecking order, says health workers should be prioritized when it comes to COVID-19 testing.

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With “Project Restart” beginning to take shape, Premier League clubs are telling foreign players who went back home to return to the United Kingdom. There is a target of returning to training by May 11 and resuming game action, this time behind closed doors, on June 8.

If and when these goals are met, Chelsea FC winger Christian Pulisic, out injured since a New Year’s Day draw versus Brighton, will be full go. Pulisic, named one of the world’s top 15 young footballing stars on the rise by Lionel Messi last month, has spent the near entirety of this calendar year sidelined with an adductor injury.

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Chelsea FC, along with the rest of most global football, are off indefinitely, so let’s do some transfer talk instead. If there’s one thing that can survive a global pandemic, it’s transfer rumors. Be sure to check out our all-transfer rumor Chelsea XI and our optimal Chelsea XI, a team with all main transfer targets acquired and key players retained.

With that in mind, let’s take a spin through the Blues related rumor mill, covering the three goalkeepers who have been tabbed as sought after acquistion candidates, and thus potential replacements for Kepa Arrizabalaga. All three of those shot-stoppers are in the news today.

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Talk today is that the Premier League is really starting to inch towards a return to action in early-to-mid June, and if it happens, it’ll mean the players will be coming off a period of approximately three months rest. For Chelsea winger Christian Pulisic, it will be closer to six months.

The 21-year-old, who was enjoying a fine debut season at Stamford Bridge, will have been sidelined for over half a calendar year by the time he gets back on the pitch- the most prolonged absence he’s ever had during his professional footballing career. He’ll be fit and fresh when he returns, and his teammate Marcos Alonso believes that the U.S. international could come back stronger than ever.

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