Former USA goalkeeper Tim Howard feels Christian Pulisic was poorly treated at Chelsea.

The USA captain has hit the ground running with AC Milan this season.

And Howard says Pulisic deserved better from Chelsea management.

"As much as people want to say the landscape has changed for Americans, it hasn't," Howard said on the Offside with Taylor Twellman podcast.

"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."