[Link] Timothy Weah

Tomorrow lad.

 

PTT saying 18 month.

 

Oooft what was he up for?

 

Stuck the heed on beaton.

 

@Notorious talks * when he’s no copying and pasting though

 

Class.

 

Never knew Weah drank in Bellshill.

 

Hope so.

 

Tim, weah you?

 

Good to see the club getting business done promptly.

 

Celtic have responded to Rangers’ signing of Jermain Defoe by snapping up Paris Saint-Germain’s deadliest striker on a loan deal.

Of course, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe remain out of reach for the Parkhead side, but neither the Brazilian superstar nor the French wonderkid can match the efficiency with which Timothy Weah has found the net for PSG’s first team this season.

Scoring a goal on average every 71.5 minutes he has been on the pitch in all competitions, the USA international eclipses both in that regard. The sample size for the forward is, admittedly, small. He has played only 143 minutes spread over three matches, all in August, but

has left little doubt what he is capable of.

Since, he has been reduced to training with the first team, a trio of outings for PSG’s ‘B’ team, with whom he has netted twice in the regionalised French fourth tier, and five international games.

Weah’s lack of playing time at the Parc des Princes is no slight on his ability, however. As well as Neymar and Mbappe, he faces competition from Edinson Cavani for the No.9 role in what is a star-studded squad.

Celtic have already seen at close quarters what he is capable of. When the sides met in Dumbarton in a UEFA Youth League fixture last term, it was Weah who got the winner as PSG edged the match 3-2.

At 18, his lack of experience comes in stark contrast to Rangers signing Defoe, who is exactly twice his age. And while the Englishman joins the Ibrox club with little to prove as he enters the final years of his career, for New York-born Weah, the next stage of his professional life is set to be pivotal.

He is used to scrutiny, though, having seen his young career develop in something of a goldfish bowl due to his father, George, being the greatest African footballer ever and still the only player from the continent to have won the Ballon d’Or.

“I don’t see the name on my back,” he said this summer.

“It’s the fans who see it, so there’s no pressure

Despite his illustrious dad, it is not necessarily to the current President of Liberia he turns to for advice. Instead, it is his Jamaican mother Clar who has been the dominant influence on his football, having first taught him the basics of the game and now acts as an advisor.

“She knows a lot because she watched my dad,” Tim explained as a 15-year-old.

Indeed, it was Clar who persuaded her son to remain in Paris for the first half of the season rather than seek a more immediate loan move away.

“My mum, she thought I am still really young and tender. There’s still some stuff to work on,” he said in September. “She thought if I went to a lesser team, there would be so many expectations to carry that team or potentially fight for a league winning spot. I don’t feel that I’m ready for that.”

At Celtic, he is unlikely to have to carry such a burden alone. Odsonne Edouard, another PSG youth product, will offer competition such that Weah is not unduly relied upon, while the volume of fixtures that they face in the early months of 2019 guarantees him the game time that he and his parent club crave.

Edouard, who never managed a first-team appearance in Paris and scored only one Ligue 1 goal in nearly 10 hours of pitch time during a loan spell with Toulouse, offers a useful comparison for what manager Brendan Rodgers can expect from the teenager.

There are similarities in the style of the pair, which is perhaps inevitable given they came through the same academy.


Edouard, however, is the more natural centre forward, given that he is more physically developed and is more comfortable playing with his back to goal.

Weah, on the other hand, is quicker than the 20-year-old, has shown the technical capacity and poise of his father when it comes to drifting away from opponents, but typically moves into wider areas, creating spaces for the midfield to attack. Although wiry, he is stronger than he appears and when taking the ball into feet with his back to goal prefers to offload with one touch rather than holding it into his body.

No doubt he has the tools to establish himself at the highest level, but potential is one thing, exploiting it another entirely.

His arrival at Celtic Park therefore represents a different kind of risk than the one Rangers are taking with Defoe, a player with a history to support the expectation placed upon him south of the Clyde.

In the East End, meanwhile, Celtic are set to get their hands on a youngster largely untested in the senior game but who could have the world at his feet should everything go according to plan.

Robin Bairner is a French football expert with more than 10 years’ experience writing about European football

 

A loan move for Weah, son of former Ballon D'Or winner George, was delayed while the 18-year-old penned a contract extension with PSG until 2021.

The powerful attacker will now have a medical examination in Dubai tomorrow before meeting his new team-mates, with paperwork all but complete on what is believed to be an 18-month deal.

 

So that's two strikers on loan but are they ready to go straight into the first team and make an impact?

 

With a good pre season they'll be ready to fight for places come august!!

 

Don’t be * daft. This is Celtic we’re talking about here

 

He's come through New York Red Bull Academy, to PSG,
quickly moved up the ranks and made his way into the first team squad.
This season he played the first two Ligue1 games for PSG's first team.

First game was in the French Super Cup against Monaco, he scored
and they won 4-0. He missed two headers where the cross was just a bit high.
Made a few mistakes before netting a good goal from a low cross,
passing it into the net first time.

Second game was the first league game of the season.
He came on as a late sub on 82minutes, had a goal within 7 minutes.
He came on to replace Neymar. Take that in for a minute.

Second game against Guingamp he was subbed at half time, 1-0 down away they brought on Mbappe.
In that team were 4 from the development side and the left back fluffed a chested
backpass straight into the path of the striker causing the first goal.

Started well winning his first trophy, scoring in the league, then subbed after 45 minutes.

3 games 2 goals. Could've been more.

In the last year
he's played for the USA against:

Paraguay
Bolivia
Ireland
Brazil
Mexico
Columbia
Peru
England

Right wing a goal and an assist,
left wing nothing. Never played as a striker for the US.

Season before he played 6 goals for PSG scoring 2 goals.

Year before, PSG UEFA U19, 4 goals and an assist in 11 games

Year before he's off the bench for the UEFA U19's scoring 3 in 4.

So you can see good progression, but it will take a little time because he is young and not a prolific goalscorer yet.

 

Wonder if he'll get the number 7

Weah
7

Would be pretty marketable

 

Still not sure here has musonda PT 2 all over it