L’Equipe has confirmed that there will be no ‘right-to-buy’ in Timothy Weah’s move to Celtic.
On Friday the teenage striker agreed a new contract with Paris Saint Germain keeping him with the French champions until 2021.
Weah is expected to meet up with his new team-mates in Dubai this week and get the game time needed to advance his club career.
L’Equipe reports:
As expected, Timothy Weah is expected to finish the season away from PSG. The young striker (18) will be loaned for the next six months at Celtic Glasgow, with no option to buy. Before validating this departure, the club of the capital wanted to extend the contract of its American international, which ran until 2020. At the end of a meeting that took place this Friday between the player’s mother, his lawyer, Badou Sambagué, and Antero Henrique, sports director of the club, an agreement was found around a one-year extension.
A six month loan deal with no option to buy doesn’t seem to offer Celtic very much but there is unlikely to be a high fee involved in the deal.
In August 2017 Celtic took Odsonne Edouard on loan from PSG with that move converted into a £9m transfer less than a year later.
Brendan Rodgers has gone on record to say that he is looking to bring in two new strikers during January but that had been assumed to be looking forward to European qualifiers in the summer rather than short term deals.
Oliver Burke is signing on a similar basis which means that the rebuilding job in the summer is getting larger with question marks over the future of Scott Brown, Mikael Lustig, and Dedryck Boyata while Filip Benkovic will return to Leicester City.