Actually, I think they were quite happy to see Pulisic get called up and see more minutes, as opposed to sitting on his butt for a couple of weeks during this window. Tuchels comments were more to make sure USMNT didn’t overdo it with Pulisic, especially with a major rival on the schedule imo.
calling up players for international windows is always tricky and not as straightforward as you want to think it is. On paper, during competitive windows like WC qualifying, clubs have to release players if the national team wants them…but depending on the situation there can be room for pushback. They can delay when the player actually leaves for example, they can call the national team and ask to hold a player due to injury, workload concerns, etc. and sometimes depending on the player or situation they will listen. This can then help give them more leeway during non competitive windows if a club has younger players the national team wants to tryout but the club doesn’t HAVE to release them for example.
I kinda suspect that if the USMNT hadn’t had Mexico this past week we might not have seen Pulisic.
I mean…maybe? I’ve never heard of UEFA or FIFA punishing an entire league for the actions of one club. Maybe there’s some arcane rule that might allow them to do that, but I would have to think that would need to be REALLY egregious to do so.
