HERSHEY, Pa. -- Christian Pulisic says he will not walk down the well-worn path from Borussia Dortmund to Bayern Munich.

After shining for Dortmund in his first full season as a senior team player, Pulisic, 18, is among the most highly rated prospects in the world. Borussia Dortmund has polished plenty of similarly talented players in recent years -- only to see them join Bayern.

Since 2010, Dortmund has been Bayern's most consistent - though at times, distant - challenger in the German top flight, winning the league twice and finishing second on three occasions.

Still, Dortmund youth product Mario Gotze, then 21, left Dortmund for Munich in a $48 million-plus transfer in 2013 before getting signed back last year. Poland striker Robert Lewandowski, who had played for Dortmund since he was 22, went to Bayern on a free transfer in 2014. Mats Hummels, originally a Bayern academy player, was bought out of the last year of his Dortmund contract by Bayern for $38,475,500 in 2016.

"No, that I could not do," Pulisic said of going to Bayern Munich. "I can't say that, but nah."

In January, Pulisic signed a contract extension with Borussia Dortmund that would keep him at the club through the end of the 2019-20 season. He finished the campaign with 43 appearances across all competitions having made critical plays in the Champions League Round of 16, keeping Dortmund in Champions League and drawing the German Cup-winning penalty.

A page charting Pulisic's career since his early teens

According to German magazine Kicker, Liverpool bid less than $15 million for Pulisic last summer. Pulisic told FourFourTwo Magazine he respected former Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp, who is now leading Liverpool, but that he never seriously considered the offer.

A Liverpool fan couldn't help himself during Pulisic's Q&A on Saturday

Pulisic's father told ESPNFC in April that his son has no need to go to Bayern now

Speculation has linked Pulisic to other English Premier League clubs, too, while Pulisic has repeatedly insisted that he's content at Dortmund with the 2018 World Cup on the horizon.

Though he grew up a fan of the Premier League and Manchester United, Pulisic said that has no bearing on his current club situation.

"Nah, I mean when I was little I wanted to play in the Premier League but now that I'm in the Bundesliga I'm not planning on a move because that's what I want to do," Pulisic said. "I'm really happy there and I'm just kind of going with the flow and I'm happy with it."