With a background that covers New York and Paris while his dad is President of an African nation Timo Weah could enjoy a very privileged lifestyle.
As the son of a world famous footballer he’d never have to join a queue or be short of celebrity invites.
For most teenagers it is the life that they strive for but Celtic’s newest signing wants to make his own name and is prepared to make sacrifices to reach the heights.
Glasgow will offer it’s own unique temptations but for the next few months at least Weah will concentrate fully on accelerating his footballing prospects.
“Being an 18-year-old ‘football player’ — among the best 18-year-olds in the world, as some people might say — there are temptations,” the on loan Paris Saint Germain forward told The Sun.
“There are girls, there’s going out to parties, there’s doing this, there’s doing that, there is drinking and blah blah blah but at the end of the day it all comes down to maturity and what you have to do as a man to reach that next level.
“You have to be disciplined and make sacrifices. Even if you are the type of person that wants to party all the time, you can’t, because your sport is important.
“If we didn’t have this we’d be in school doing regular stuff. So you should look at this as a blessing, being able to do something you love. I cherish this so much and that’s how I look at it and how I live that life.”
Airdrie United and St Mirren never featured on his dad, George’s timeline but that’s who Timo will be preparing to face over the next fortnight.
With three new attacking options added to his squad Brendan Rodgers has more firepower to call on than he ended 2018 with, which you should consider when using your Ladbrokes promo code 2019.
Where Weah fits in as another question entirely but at this moment Celtic look to be shaping up for the challenges of 2019.
If Timo is even half as good as his dad then he’ll be a very good player indeed as he has some very impressive stats.
George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah played over 400 professional games in his club career, netting close to 200 goals in additional to the 22 his scored in 61 appearances for Liberia.
Celtic will be hoping that the goal scoring trait is genetically passed down to the next generation of Weah.
