#but honestly if you put me in his shoes i would find psg tempting af

[juweigl]

do you see weigl off to psg in the future? they need a dm and tuchel loves weigl and brought the best out of him in bvb..

Honestly, I’ve heard so many times that Julian Weigl was actually part of the #TuchelOut crowd that I almost kind of believe it. But I do still have my own guess about how things were at the end, based on how I observed things in the final months/weeks rather than based on the conflicting info we got from “insiders”. Obviously I’m not going to assume that my guess is the right answer, it’s just my own guess, but I’m also not going to assume that these insiders have the truth because so much of their info has been proven false at this point.

I think in Weigl’s case, we can pick up some hints from the way he denied the rumours. When asked about PSG, he just said he can understand why people would expect him to go to PSG because he worked well with Tuchel but he won’t leave BVB this summer. If there had been no contact at all, the first thing any player would usually say is “PSG never even contacted me” and not “I can see why you would think that”. On Tuchel’s end, when he arrived at PSG, he was asked in his first official interview if he would sign his “protégé” Julian Weigl. He gave no conclusive answer, nor did he take issue with this description of Weigl. The interview came across as a fairly controlled PR situation so I doubt this reporter just took a guess out of the blue. From this, I think it’s quite likely that Tuchel/PSG at least contacted Julian.

On the other hand, as much as we can speculate about pull factors for joining PSG, we also need to consider pull factors for staying at BVB. Germany is his home country, and his family and friends are all there. He has regular playing time at a team that plays CL football, he plays in a stronger domestic league, he gets on well with his teammates, and the atmosphere of the locker room suits his down to earth personality. It’s hard to guess how much he wants a wage increase, or how ambitious he is to take a bigger step, or how badly he wants to try something new. Every player wants those things to some degree, Julian included, but it has to be measured against what he already has at BVB.

Right now, I do think BVB is a fairly attractive place. If this season had begun the same way as the whole shitshow we saw last season, I might feel a stronger risk of losing him, especially since he lost his NT spot. But at this moment, BVB looks more competitive and he’s also playing somewhat better football himself. So my guess is that he’ll stay, but it’s really just based on my guess about how much he cares about which things.

#but honestly if you put me in his shoes i would find psg tempting af #because i think he's too young and talented to think only about what's comfortable #it's a good opportunity to try something new and challenge himself on a new stage #i'd much rather regret doing something than regret not doing something #especially when there's no real harm in it #i would fully support him giving it a shot at any top team outside of germany or england