Keiran Tierney: The Transfer Story We Wish Would Just Die
Let’s start with Tierney first.
He’s still a Celtic player at the time of writing and it doesn’t look likely that Arsenal are going to end up meeting our valuation of him. They simply don’t have the money to pursue Tierney all the way as well as their other targets.
Tough old world, isn’t it? Even EPL money doesn’t guarantee that they can just roll up at Celtic Park and pick up our best players anymore.
As far as most Celtic fans are concerned, that should really be that.
We ought to tell them to chase themselves at this point, although whether we do or not will depend on how badly Lawwell wants the deal to go through. We were quick enough to tell Leicester that McGregor was not for sale; I wonder why we’ve not taken the same line here.
If you don’t think keeping Tierney is an imperative, you just have to look at some of the players who we’ve been linked with as his “replacement”, and if you thought the guy we brought in when Dembele left was uninspiring you really ain’t seen nothing yet.