Lille is reportedly taking over the Belgium club Moeskroen and plan to use it as a feeder club. So while I'm sure Weah will get another chance coming off of injury dont be shocked to see him in Belgium to get the rust off
pretty sure that is illegal per FIFA rules right? isnt that why RB had to dissolve the boards and have individual boards for each club?
How does City Football Group get away with it, then? Different boards, schmifferent boards. NYC is intended to be a feeder club for ManCity, and appears to be legit according to FIFA. Surely this would be no different in it's functioning.
I doubt Lille spent $10 MM on a player to loan him to a nothing Belgium club. If he needs a loan to get back up to speed, it would be to Anderlecht not whatever club this would be. He would not be able to go there for a few games. It would have to be a window to window loan.
Nothing club they may be, but they're in the Jupiler League and playing against Anderlecht, Brugge and the rest. It isn't Holland but its Big 5 are more than good enough opposition for someone like Weah to "get back up to speed" by playing against them.
Do you have an example of a player who went on loan from a Champions League club to a mid-table club to "get back up to speed"? After a few games, and he is back up to speed, what would be the point of playing another 3-4 months there? He can't go there for a game or two and come back to Lille. Which is why when a player needs to, "get back up to speed", they usually spend a game or two with the club's reserve team. Rather than spend half a season somewhere else.
I can recall hearing about loans to a mid-table club in the same league in the first half of the season, though I'm damned if I can recall any names. To a mid-table club in a much lesser league? I can't remember it at all and it'd make no sense for the reason you gave: once he's "up to speed" for Lille's purposes they'll want him back immediately. As for Tim going on loan there a) the French season is over, so he's entering pre-season in August and everyone will be a bit off the pace, and b) he did well enough at Celtic that if he's fit he'll be an attractive enough loan option for a Ligue 1 or top of Ligue 2 side and Lille will send him on loan because they don't think he's ready to contribute to the 1st team in 2020-21, not beacuse he's got some need to catch up with the rest of the squad.
In any case, I'd be very sceptical of this rumoured acquisition of Mouscron. The Ligue 1 reserve sides in the French pyramid play in the regionalized 4th division, which is closer to Oberliga than RL ball, so if Lille want Mouscron as a base to see if an academy grad can bridge the gap to senior footy, in theory it'd be better to have him playing in Belgium than in the reserve league. In theory. In reality, the Jupiler is a decent league and the step up from a Ligue 1 academy will still be so steep that no more than a handful of academy graduates would be able to go 90' week-in-week-out at that level. If it Mouscron were a Belgian or Dutch D2 side, it could make sense, but not at D1 level.
City loaned 10 players to Girona in 2018/19 but seem to have lost interest following their relegation.
Including sending the World Cup to a desert country that used basically slave labor to build facilities and moving the games to the fall...
GREAT NEWS!Tim Weah reportedly will be back in full squad training tomorrow for Lille, returning from injury. https://t.co/eLIdAL166M— USMNT Only (@usmntonly) June 10, 2020 Who wants good news?
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