The Tim with the big small name (son of Liberian President and former Ballon D’Or winner George Weah) has signed for 6 months. The US born Paris Saint Germain attacker is only 18 years old and but there are a few numbers available.
For a review of his playing style, this Football Whispers article makes the best use of limited footage.
Using Transfermarkt as the source, I include the likes of International age group competition and UEFA Youth League data.
Position
For the US age grade international sides Weah played across the front in all three modern attacking positions (right wing, centre forward and left wing).
He became the first player born this century to represent the US national team in March 2018 versus Paraguay. In his 8 appearances for the USMNT (ugh!) he has alternated between left and right attacking winger.
For the Paris Saint Germain Under 19s he played predominantly as a left sided attacker. (Known as “the Sinclair position”.) With Edouard also favouring coming in from the left, it could get crowded out there. He scored against Celtic’s Under 19s in a UEFA Youth League match in September 2017.
Paris Saint Germain have started to integrate Weah into their first team squad. In March 2018 he made his debut against Troyes coming on as a central attacker. He was in the squad for the remaining 9 games of the season as the league was won and the French Champions could experiment. He got game time in 3 matches, playing 90 minutes once.
His career highlight is probably playing 90 minutes and scoring in the season opening Trophee Des Champions (think English Charity Shield) versus Monaco in a 4-0 win. He then got game time in the initial two league games of the Ligue 1 season in 2018/19, scoring his first senior club league goal. The first team in Paris have predominantly used him centrally.
Weah was not in the squad for the next 17 Ligue 1 matches and is obviously not in their first team plans for the rest of the season.
He has made more appearances for the full national team (8) than for his club side (6).
It seems his club see him as a striker but his national team are happy for him to play anywhere across the front. He states in this The Scotsman article Rodger’s intends to use him as a striker.
Scoring Contribution
Across international / club age and full team football he has completed 2735 minutes or just over 30 full matches.
He has a very respectable 14 goals and 7 assists becoming one of only 5 men to have scored a hat trick in a Finals tournament, for the USA Under 17’s. He repeated that feat on debut for Paris Saint Germain U19s in the UEFA Youth League.
Overall he has managed 0.46 goals per 90m and 0.23 assists.
His total Scoring Contribution is, therefore, 0.69 per 90m. Of the current Celtic squad this season that would be behind Edouard (0.91), Forrest (0.90) and Christie (0.71) and just ahead of Griffiths (0.61) and Johnston (0.60).
An interesting statistical vignette is that he has already been booked 4 times in 779 minutes for the PSG and USA first teams. That’s 0.46 Yellow Cards per 90m! The highest in the Celtic squad is Brown on 0.27. A very small sample but he may be a battler.
If and when he plays for Celtic he will become the 2nd player born this century to play for the Hoops (after Jack Aitchison).
Welcome to Celtic Timothy, I can’t wait to see your numbers!