Monday’s return to Serie A play featured a major high and a worrying low for American attacker Timothy Weah.
Weah scored his first league goal for Juventus in a 3-0 home victory over Como but was substituted off at halftime due to a hamstring injury. The U.S. men’s national team winger delivered a lively 45 minutes in Thiago Motta’s starting lineup as the Bianconeri earned three points on opening weekend.
Samuel Mgangula broke the deadlock in the 23rd minute for Juventus, delivering his first goal for the club on his debut.
Weah extended the Bianconeri’s lead to 2-0 before the interval after rifling a left-footed volley off of the crossbar. Kenan Yildiz’s service from the left wing was finished off by Weah for his second-career goal for Juventus.
However, the American’s evening was cut short after he was visibly seen hobbling after scoring his goal. Andrea Cambiaso added an insurance goal for Juventus in second-half stoppage time, padding the eventual victory.
Fellow American Weston McKennie was an unused substitute in the match.
Juventus announced Tuesday that Weah, along with Khephren Thuram will both be re-evaluated in the near future following respective injuries.
“Following muscular problems suffered during last night’s match, Khephren Thuram and Timothy Weah underwent diagnostic tests this morning at the J|Medical, which revealed for the former a low-grade hamstring injury in his left thigh and for the latter a low-grade hamstring injury in his right thigh. New examinations are scheduled for both players in approximately 10 days’ time,” a club statement read.
Weah’s injury comes at a worrying time with the USMNT set to reportedly appoint Mauricio Pochettino as their new head coach. The USMNT winger endured a tough summer at the Copa America after being sent off in the Americans’ 2-1 group stage loss to Panama.
Juventus next faces a Matchweek 2 trip to Hellas Verona.
A headline that perfectly sums up our current crop of Americans Abroad.
Damn…..he was hurt too way before he scored that goal. He was holding his hamstring and looking at the bench wondering why Motta wasn’t taking him off……then the opportunity came and he made it count. I don’t think it’s that serious….. Or he would have just laid on the pitch until he was substituted but he was able to push through to halftime. Fingers crossed 🤞🏾
Two players got hurt for Juventus on the same day in the same game…..Weah and Thuram.
“Though Weah grabbed Juve’s second with a thumping effort in off the crossbar, Weah looked like he had pulled up with a hamstring issue a few moments prior.
Khephren Thuram suffered a similar issue shortly afterwards, and he was subsequently replaced by Nicolo Fagioli after 67 minutes.
According to Tuesday’s updates, both Weah and Thuram have suffered low-grade lesions in their thighs after reporting for medical tests on Tuesday morning. The problem is in Weah’s right leg and in Thuram’s left”
if the coach is trying to get to half or won’t take the hint, hit the ground and let the physio run interference. i say that but i think i stayed on my back one time ever, kneeled one other time.
dragged myself over a sideline the two times i did a hammy. otherwise i’m doing the sub gesture and limping til it comes.
Bout time the man scored with his left foot. Grew tired of watching him right foot every angle for every shot he hits. Also growing tired of seeing him play RW. Put him at LW and be done with it. The man is a shooter, not a defender.
They are not using WBs this year, he was playing as an attacker. 4-2-3-1.
Probably scored with his left because he knew he had an injury to his right.
There have been times when it seemed you could put together a decent team just from injured US players. Hopefully, Weah’s injury is minor, but if it’s a hamstring, those usually take 6-8 weeks. It’s early and now we already have Weah to join Adams and Dest, It’s a good thing we don’t have to qualify for the next WC.
he’s out for the september friendlies if we have any sense
So the hold up to announcing Poch is because of Chelsea and the agreement that if Poch coached another team then Chelsea would stop paying his wages due to him. Guess we now know why Poch hadn’t received concrete offers from other teams, they do t want to have to pay him also the rest of Chelsea wages.
my guess is that’s standard issue. they hire you for 4 years,will pay you x every month — which continues even when fired if it’s not for cause (a part americans don’t seem to realize) — and you probably agree not to compete with chelsea. they fire him early but still owe him money, which maybe he wants to pay for his ferrari, and as long as they pay maybe they insist on the noncompete. so he wants his money, and they then say you can’t coach the US or anyone else.
the solution is some lump sum less than what he is owed over the balance, and then they drop the noncompete.
poch’s negotiating power here would be low. it’s out there he’s the first choice for the US job. why should i give him a ton of money? i hold the keys to his next job. he should have sorted this out earlier. take what they are giving and shift to our job.
IV,
“he should have sorted this out earlier. take what they are giving and shift to our job.”
Should have? Not really. Poch was getting paid to not work. Maybe Pochettino wanted to take a break. Stay on the beach for a year. Whatever.
Then the USMNT made him an offer. Once they convinced him it was a good idea THAT is the time when he “should have” begun the process to “sort it out”. NO reason to do it any earlier.
“poch’s negotiating power here would be low.”
No, it’s not like that. Poch is negotiating nothing. Chelsea don’t want him back. Poch doesn’t want to go back. He’s going to get his money , either from Chelsea or the USSF.
Or some combination of the two.
The USMNT want Poch. Chelsea want Poch to go to the USSF.
The only thing being negotiated is, now that the USMNT want to employ him, whether Chelsea will have to keep paying him the full amount for the length of his contract. And if they do, can they negotiate some kind of reduction.
The USMNT is not competing with Chelsea so it is in everyone’s best interest for a settlement to be reached.
Poch and the USSF want him to start ASAP.
Chelsea wants as much of Poch’s salary off their books as soon possible. And the USSF, now that everyone knows about this, don’t want to mess this up and look like fuckwits.
Everyone has a reason to get this done sooner rather than later. So, of course, it will drag on.
V: all due respect but when we have games starting in less than 3 weeks — and really need faster resolution than that to be actively involved — CFC has the power position and can wait him out if he gets greedy. they can wait and wait and wait and then he either has to skip the window to get paid or he folds so he can come coach us.
you’re harping on “but CFC would owe him the money,” except ask any business owner or finance geek about lump sum now vs. paying someone monthly over time and making investment or interest value on the rest. and while they don’t want to drag their feet forever for appearance reasons, the default is they do nothing and this drags on.
now if CFC was in barca’s lousy financial shoes, you want fast and cheap. but for this, it’s the willingness to pay 2 paychecks and he misses the whole fall.
look, i know he’s out of deal, but if you’re the equivalent of klopp and content to play with the grandkids and putter about the garden, just let the passive paychecks keep rolling in. but to me this CFC thing is only an impediment to new jobs now, and he risks having to miss valuable current games just to resolve the past.
“when we have games starting in less than 3 weeks — and really need faster resolution than that to be actively involved — CFC has the power position and can wait him out if he gets greedy.”
Greedy?
First of all, none of us know exactly what the financial numbers are here but in terms of those games nothing is stopping Poch from coming here and hanging out with Varas before during and after the games. Nothing is stopping him from giving Varas friendly suggestions on tactics and subs.
For some reason you seem to think that Varas is an evil agent of the Berhalter deep state come wreak ruin and havoc on Gregg’s successor. I don’t know Varas but I don’t see how such negativity would benefit either him or Gregg. And before you tell me that every Berhalter assistant was his bitch, I will remind you that BJ ‘s tenure made everyone forget Gregg was ever involved.
My assumption is that Varas will see this as an opportunity to gain some valuable experience for himself. But if I were Poch I wouldn’t do that hang out bit that I just suggested because I wouldn’t work for the USSF for free. So if negotiations are still at an impasse losing those games have to be weighed vs. the millions that the USSF are trying to save themselves. If it sounds like I don’t care who wins or loses in Chelsea vs. the USSF, I don’t. All I know is the USSF were willing to shell out for the guy and this is part of that. For them to lose him or have some extended delay over this would look pretty bad. And they want to look good.
It is possible that Chelsea will be dicks about this for reasons best known to themselves. but they can’t do that without the complicity of the USSF.
I don’t know what Poch was making at Chelsea nor I do I know the terms of the separation. If you know them then enlighten us. But the USSF certainly had to have a pretty good idea of those terms before giving Crockett the green light to even begin talks with Poch.
The negotiating here is between Chelsea and the USSF and what percentage each of them is going to pay for whatever money Poch is going to make for this job.
Let’s say Chelsea are on the hook for 10 bucks a week. If he takes the USMNT job Chelsea want the USSF to take over the whole 10 bucks. I imagine the USSF want something like at least 50-50. Sounds crazy to normal poor people like me but I’m pretty sure there are managers elsewhere who are managing one team while still drawing on a severance from another team. Again, I would remind you that Chelsea and the USMNT are not in competition, and that none of us know how the contracts involved read. Or maybe you do but I don’t.
Chelsea can stonewall this but that just means they still pay Poch to do nothing. No matter what happens, Poch is getting paid by someone. He’s not going to stress over the $3 for his SBI subscription.
I give him the assist on the first goal as well. Sure it took the slightest touch by the defender, but it didn’t change the pass.
Hopefully it’s a minor tweak to his hamstring.