After several weeks of negotiations, Juventus of Turin announced the signing of the jewel of ‘Team USA’, Timothy Weah, who arrives from Lille in France with a contract until June 2028, becoming the first signing of the Italian club this summer.
The player who can stand out as a left winger and winger on both flanks, was acquired for $11.2 million dollars that will be paid in two years. In addition, the ‘Vecchia Signora’ will pay about $2.3 million based on “certain objectives and/or sporting conditions”.
“Six years of enormous growth that have transformed Timothy into a very versatile player, capable of covering defensive and offensive roles, thus becoming a total winger,” Juventus pointed out about the American’s abilities and the reasons why they chose to sign him.
Likewise, the Turin team that will not play the next edition of the Champions League due to a sanction by the Italian sports authorities for the ‘Case Plusvalía’, reported added “expenses” of up to a “maximum” of one million euros ( about $1.1 million dollars).
Timothy, son of the former AC Milan player and current president of Liberia, is 23 years old, but since he arrived in Europe he has done nothing but win titles, including Ligue 1 in France three times, twice with Paris Saint-Germain. Germain and one with Lille.
Lille has precisely been the team that has given the most playing opportunities, getting to participate in 107 games, scoring 8 goals since it arrived in the summer of 2019 until the campaign just ended.
At 23 years old, he already has 34 appearances with the United States team in which he has scored 4 goals and was champion of the Concacaf Nations League twice (2019/2020 and 2022/2023).
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