George Weah

====Later career====
Weah signed for English [[Premier League]] club [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] on loan from Milan on 11 January 2000, in a deal which would keep him with the West London club until the end of the [[1999–2000 Chelsea F.C. season|1999–2000 season]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/600616.stm |website=BBC Sport |title=Weah cleared for debut |date=12 January 2000}}</ref> Although past his prime, Weah's time in England was deemed a success, especially at Chelsea where he instantly endeared himself to their fans by scoring the winner against rivals [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]] on his debut,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/fa_carling_premiership/601186.stm |title=Winner for Weah on debut |website=BBC Sport |date=12 January 2000 |access-date=5 November 2009}}</ref> and scored further league goals against [[Wimbledon F.C.|Wimbledon]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2000/feb/13/match.sport7 |title=Olsen's flying circus on downward spiral |newspaper=The Guardian |date=12 February 2000|access-date=5 November 2009 |first=Ian |last=Ridley}}</ref> and Liverpool.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/fa_carling_premiership/730395.stm |title=Weah gives Liverpool the Blues |website=BBC Sport |date=29 April 2000|access-date=5 November 2009}}</ref> He also scored twice in Chelsea's victorious [[1999–2000 FA Cup]] netting crucial goals against [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2000/jan/30/match.facup |title=Blues see red and yellow |newspaper=The Guardian |date=30 January 2000 |access-date=5 November 2009 |first=Jon |last=Brodkin}}</ref> and [[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2000/feb/21/match.sport3 |title=Chelsea bring Gills down to earth |newspaper=The Guardian |date=20 February 2000|access-date=5 November 2009 |first=Martin |last=Thorpe}}</ref> This led to him starting in the [[2000 FA Cup final|final]], which Chelsea won 1–0.<ref name=Malam-report>{{cite news |first=Colin |last=Malam |title=Chelsea 1 Aston Villa 0 |url=http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/2000.htm |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=21 May 2000 |access-date=10 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024025807/http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/2000.htm |archive-date=24 October 2007}}</ref>

Chelsea manager [[Gianluca Vialli]] did not make Weah's move permanent, and, on 1 August 2000, he officially left Milan, and signed for newly promoted Premier League side [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] on a free transfer on a two-year contract worth £30,000 a week,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/weah-joins-royles-revolution-696459.html |work=The Independent |first=Tim |last=Rich |title=Weah joins Royle's revolution |date=2 August 2000}}</ref> declining the offer of a £1&nbsp;million pay-off from Milan owner [[Silvio Berlusconi]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/887070.stm |website=BBC Sport |title=Weah snubs golden handshake |date=19 August 2000}}</ref> He played 11 games in all competitions for City, scoring four times, before leaving on 16 October 2000 after becoming dissatisfied with manager [[Joe Royle]] for selecting him as a substitute too frequently; he had only played the full 90 minutes in three of his 11 games for the [[Maine Road]] club.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/weahs-blue-moon-affair-lasts-11-games-637405.html |work=The Independent |first=Alan |last=Nixon |title=Weah's blue moon affair lasts 11 games |date=17 October 2000}}</ref> At City, he scored once in the league against [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] (as he did at Chelsea),<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/916469.stm |title=Hamann double sees off City |website=BBC Sport |date=9 September 2000|access-date=5 November 2009}}</ref> and three times against Gillingham (again as he had at Chelsea), this time in the [[EFL Cup|League Cup]]; once in the first leg<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/worthington_cup/932316.stm |title=Manchester City 1–1 Gillingham |website=BBC Sport |date=20 September 2000|access-date=5 November 2009}}</ref> and twice in the second.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/worthington_cup/941789.stm |title=Gillingham 2–4 Man City (agg: 3–5) |website=BBC Sport |date=26 September 2000|access-date=5 November 2009}}</ref>

Following his time in England, Weah returned to France and had a spell at Marseille, where he remained until May 2001. He later played with [[Al Jazira Club|Al Jazira]] in the [[UAE Football League]], where he remained until his retirement as a player in 2003, at age 37.<ref name="FIFA"/> He had planned on joining the [[New York/New Jersey MetroStars]] of [[Major League Soccer]] but elected to join Al Jazira on a temporary basis.<ref>{{cite news |last=Yannis |first=Alex |date=7 September 2001 |title=Weah's Moves Wow MetroStars |page=B7 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/07/sports/plus-soccer-weah-s-moves-wow-metrostars.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=10 February 2019}}</ref>