When a kid is as successful as Weah has been at PSG where the incentive is development and less so w/our hack coaches where the incentive is team performance I tend to lean toward his results w/his club team. I do think it’s reasonable to be alarmed that other than the R16 game where he was spectacular, his game to game performance looked middling at best, but it is worth remembering that winger hasn’t been his natural position, that our staff at best is barely competent and that we should reserve the vast bulk of our attention to his development at PSG where he’s spent a good 98-99% of his time rather than the handful of days combined he spends in off tournament years with our youth teams and the tiny uptick of days you see in tournament years. We should be excited about him. All signs are pointing up right now, we just should remember to carry the weariness of “once bitten, twice shy,” that we appear to have collectively taken on after the disappointments related to guys like Spector, Gyau, Adu, Szetela, Green, Boyd, Zelalem and lately Wright amongst others as compared to stories like Wood, Pusilic and Mckennie of late. Such caution is warranted, but not to the degree that some write him off as a prospect in the same way they write off Paraguay because we thrashed them in the round of 16 (tossing aside the fact that they pounded on semifinalist Mali early (to the tune of a 2-0 lead before it was even 20 minutes in, and won 3-2), ignoring the fact that Paraguay ran the table in their group to the tune of a +5 goal differential and 10 total goals, this group included a Turkish side that finished last despite having been a semifinalist at the U-17 UEFA championships, only falling 2-1 to eventual U-17 World Cup Champs England at that semifinal stage (and to Spain in the group stage, a stage where they beat traditional powers Italy and Croatia). Weah's one of our best prospects period. We should just remember (and I think we do) that teenage soccer prospects have much more in common with draft year baseball prospects than they do with draft year NFL or NBA prospects in terms of success rate at the professional level and as such bring to bear the same healthy and honest and unbiased skepticism we'd use towards anyone else from any other country.
PSG just lost. Spanish defenders were too savvy for our guy they must have done their home work on him. Watched it in person. Thought he was being coached a little too much from the bench.
yep. was kind of invisible, bad game for him. Barca have conceded one goal all tournament, so kind of expected, but still disappointing nonetheless.
<Saturday> Tim went 63' and Scored PSG's only goal in a 1 - 3 defeat by Andrézieux in France's National 2 (Group B)
Timothy Weah in the squad for Troyes-PSG tomorrow. Cavani and Mbappé rested Weah dans le groupe pour Troyes/#PSG, les absents nombreux https://t.co/YdPL0zSK5x pic.twitter.com/HgJ1nrsZ58— CulturePSG (@CulturePSG) March 2, 2018
Maybe time to promote him out of the academy. The game is on Go90. Doubt it’s being broadcasted anywhere in the US.
I think Cavani and Mbappe will be rested and Neymar is injured of course. Could be a pretty good chance for him to get game time.
According to this on Wiki, yes. PSG isn't an old club, so there isn't going to be some guy from the 1930s who snuck in there.
LINEUP CONFIRMED: Here is PSG's Starting XI vs. @estac_officiel ! 👊#ESTACPSG🔴🔵 #AllezParis pic.twitter.com/GglkVapAMQ— Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_English) March 3, 2018 On BeIN at 11am est.
Up 1-0 with 15 mins left. 70ish% possession. Alves and Motta on for di Maria and Rabiot. Maybe a shot if they can get a second. Coming on!