Kieran Tierney

Hopefully stays fit think he still has some speed just get forward pass forward crosses I and that be good for me

 

All going well he will be the next candidate for the captain of Celtic. As daft as it sounds with him not even being in the door yet

 

If he was here and healthy still when Broony left he would have been before Calmac.

I’m certain of that. Broony would have recommended him, like he did Calmac when he left.

*, if not for injuries and the reliability issues that come with that, he would have been Scotlands captain before Robertson I think.

Double checking that timeline, 2018 Robbo got it, and I’m sure that was when he was thinking he may need to retire at one point. Moved to Arsenal 2019.

also, thats 6 * years ago. *

 

Time flies

I remember James Forrest debut season. It was the Mowbray season. Played pre-season tournament at the Emirates and everyone on TalkSport couldn't believe the ridiculous speed of James Forrest. He was like 16/17. And Hawksby and Jacobs couldn't shut up about how fast the boy was. Absolute lighting.

He's still no slowed up too much. But now all of a sudden this guy is a bawhair off being our most decorated player. And his debut season seems no too long ago.....but about 15 year ago in reality

 

Lenny brought him straight into the senior team when he got the interim job, he was the youth manager and was raving about him to get a chance. Scored on his debut, Motherwell I’m sure. 16 seasons ago that. Mental.

On Tierney again though, everything I’ve seen from Arsenal fans is them being raging he’s signed for us and leaving. He’s been good anytime he’s played since Jan, multiple positions. And the attitude and drive, along with the quality is highlighted everything I’ve seen.

Probably will get injured for them last game of the season though

 

I personally cannae wait for KT's return in all honesty.

Man needs no bedding in. No introduction.
Straight into the deep end with all that goes with it and he'd have it no other way.

Mind the clip when he was a kid and Nakamura gave him his boots. You'd have thought he'd won the lottery. That's how he feels about playing for us. Celtic blood bred to the bone is Tierney. Same mould as your Peter Grant or Roy Aitken.....Celtic tunnel vision with 100% commitment....cause there is no other way. Tierney has it in him and we need that type of pride, drive and commitment badly

 

He’s world class. We’d have no chance of signing him even with his injury problems without his love for us. The only reason people aren’t mind bogglingly ecstatic with it is the injuries.

I don’t care now it’s confirmed though. If we even get 20/30 games a season out of him it’s more than worth it.

His first year at Arsenal he went uninjured, Real * Madrid were seriously wanting him. And Arsenal fans were adamant that they can’t let that happen. Much like us, he was the next captain for them for the fans, injury’s have robbed him of a truly peak career.

He’s the only guy we could have a hope of signing who is top Champions League quality levels.

Put it this way, if both were as reliable injury wise, would anyone pick Robertson over Tierney? He has been world class as well, truly great career, great player, also a Tim… but he’s not close to Tierney as a player either.

And he’ll be on the wing with either Jota or * Maeda. I’m buzzing for that

 

Andy Robertson is one of these players that if he wasn't playing with a top side i.e Liverpool...then he would be bang average. There's been a few of them with the top sides in the past. .......

Nicky * - never rated him. Bang average ordinary as was shown when he went to Everton and Newcastle. Nowhere near the same level as Giggs or Scholes from same 'class of 92'.

Darren Fletcher - also Man United and also similar player to nicky *....only difference was Fletcher got a shitload of international caps based on the sole fact that Fergie picked him for Man United. If it had been a lesser club or a lesser manager then Darren Fletcher fades into obscurity quite easily.


Michael Owen - says it himself....he was done by the time he was 25. Injury after injury since he was 17...and he had lost all of his grease lightning speed by the time he was 25. Should never have been near Real Madrid level. He's very up front about it and says himself that after he lost his speed he was a bang average, ten-a-penny striker for the last 10 year of his career

Ray Parlour - a definite Arsenal 'hinger on'. Should never have been near the team when Vierra and Emmanuel Petit were fit but always seemed to hang around the first team for years. More suited to George Graham's boring as * 1 nil to the Arsenal era but was in with the furniture at Arsenal and hung on for years.....when in reality he was not in the same stratosphere as Viera and Petit...both world cup winners...boring as * player aswell to go with it

Gary Gillespie - came back to edit ma post when I remembered him. Somehow hung about Liverpool for the whole of the 80s as a stand in full back. But with all due respect to GG he was absoloute pish. Got leeway with Liverpool playing with better players in a team that won every week. Picked for Scotland because of this. When he moved to us after Liverpool we all saw that when he could stay fit at all he was slow, cumbersome, cringeworthy on the ball and completely out of sorts when not playing in cruise control for Liverpool and actually having to take the bull by the horns and run a defence...
he couldn't do it....powderpuff injury prone pre-madonna. Pish basically

Rant over. In conclusion....

Andy Robertson would barely be spoken of if he played with Nottingham Forest or West Ham. He'd go un-noticed. But he doesn't..he plays with Liverpool..one of the world's top clubs...therefore is automatically better than any other Scottish player in that position. We must also remember that Charlie Adam played for Liverpool aswell....so theres not a crazy amount of footballing pedigree required to make it there. Robertson isnot as good a player as a fit Kieran Tierney. No way.

 

Cant wait to see him back in the hoops. HH

 

He has it in him to be next Tom Boyd.....a quality * full back in the * 90s.

Was Boyd better than McNamara?


Is Tierney better than both of them???

If he can stay fit then I think he will be

 

Started and scored for Arsenal tonight but was chalked off by the VAR automated offsides thingy.

 

https://www.heraldscotland.com/spor...eran-tierneys-celtic-move-leaves-pundit-dark/


Poor Alan Smith. A razor sharp finisher in the 1990s, the Arsenal old boy passed up an open goal during the 1-1 draw with Brentford.

Addressing Kieran Tierney’s first Gunners start for two years, Amazon Prime’s co-commentator fired an effort straight into row Z.


“You would think Tierney would leave Arsenal in the summer,” he mused, blissfully unaware of a pre-contract agreement with Celtic. Oh to be a fly on the wall when somebody breaks the news that the Beatles have split up and Trump is back in the White House.

To cut the big guy some slack few expected the Scotland defender to return to Glasgow as soon as this.

Not when he is back playing for an Arsenal team sitting second in the English Premier League. By 10pm Wednesday night he could be a Champions League semi-finalist. And most players at that level would think twice before giving the SPFL the gum off their shoe.

That £80 million burning a hole in Celtic’s bank account might be a king’s ransom in Scotland. In England it wouldn’t purchase Bukayo Saka’s right leg.


And, while Tierney will be well rewarded for returning to his boyhood team there is no question that he could have earned more money elsewhere. Bayer Leverkusen, Sevilla, Juventus and Everton offered him the chance to spend the peak years of his career playing in Germany, Spain, Italy or England. By choosing games against Falkirk and Ross County, he is clearly allowing the pull of the heart to overrule the head.

That said, those accusing him of a lack of ambition, should try to understand his motivation for returning this summer. A wealthy young man after five years in London, the left-back never lost sight of his working-class roots. When he turned up for a game against Sheffield United carrying his toiletries in a Tesco bag it was never an affectation for the cameras. It is who he is.

His mother remains his inspiration. Irene Tierney worked multiple jobs to support her boy’s career, while dad Michael drove him all over the country to play football.

Earning more in a year than his parents can realistically hope to make in a lifetime, a return to Scotland offers the chance to repay his folks for all that hard work and sacrifice. It’s time to give them something back.

The seeds of the move were planted at Celtic’s annual charity gala in London in October. When images emerged of Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers chatting to the full-back it hardly required the powers of Nostradamus to work out what happened next. So long as he was under contract at Arsenal, talks had to wait until January. By then the London giants had passed up the option of another year on his contract.

His Emirates career, like his time at Euro 2024, had been cursed by mishap. Knee surgery – followed by the arrival of Oleksandr Zinchenko and Miles Lewis Skelly – curtailed his Gunners ambitions and triggered a painful slide down the pecking order under Mikel Arteta


While some speak as if he will be wheeled up Celtic Way in a box marked “fragile”, he still managed to sustain an average of 40 games a season. While he will probably never play 60 times a season, like Callum McGregor, he looks stronger and fitter than he has for a while.

His Indian Summer under Arteta, meanwhile, is a reward for quietly playing the game. Shipped out on loan to Real Sociedad, there were no complaints, no public histrionics. When a season long loan ended he returned to London, knuckled down and did enough to persuade the Spaniard that letting him leave for Celtic in January would be a bad idea.

Saturday marked his first start since 2023 and he almost marked the occasion with his first goal in the English Premier League in four years. The moment was ruined – as so many are – by semi-automated VAR technology. Where offside lines in Scotland are unconvincing and drawn by crayon, the process was mercifully quick and conclusive.



Few expect Tierney to start against Real Madrid in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday. As Arsenal seek to protect their stunning three- goal lead, however, he will play a part. And, by the end he could be one of those most endangered of species; Scots in the last four of the Champions League.

Paul Lambert was the last player from these parts to lift the trophy then join Celtic. Then, as now, family circumstances carried more currency than the money. Rodgers also knows how that feels after he made a choice to return to Glasgow in the summer of last year.

It is too soon for fans to start fretting over Terminado: The Sequel. Yet one or two of the manager’s recent statements have heightened the suspicion that the summer transfer window will have a bearing on just how long he hangs around.

Remarks at the pre-match press conference before Saturday’s 5-1 win over Kilmarnock were widely construed as a warning to directors that if the team weren’t renewed, then the manager might be.

While he expressed surprise at the way his remarks were reported Rodgers must know, by now, that every word and every gesture by a Celtic manager is picked apart with a forensic attention to detail Hercule Poirot might find excessive.

While supporters welcomed the clarification that he plans to hang around until the end of his contract in the summer next year, no one doubted that he would. What happens after that is the question.

Far from silencing the speculation a 13th title in 14 years and another domestic treble will only make it louder




If Tierney is the calibre of player the Celtic board aspire to sign this summer then Rodgers might be persuaded to hang around beyond May 2026.

It’s now clear, however, that keeping Rangers at arm’s length doesn’t really cut it anymore. His horizons stretch further than the other side of Glasgow.

The Champions League is where it’s at. And, after reaching the play-off round and running Bayern Munich close in the Allianz Arena the arrival of Tierney is the first sign of the manager’s determination to keep moving forward. It won’t be the last.

He shouldn’t need to use questions over his future as leverage to secure the cash he needs to make Celtic better.

The money is there. And if the Parkhead board drag their heels so long that they allow an elite manager to walk out the door a second time the din will be so loud even Alan Smith might hear it.

 

Interesting to hear he's averaged 40 games a season while down south, I'm one of the biggest KT cheerleaders but didn't realise it was anywhere near that. Hopefully ease some of the worries of fans concerned about his gametime.

Cannae wait till he's back in the Hoops.

 

Such a weird thing to be pedantic over, but he's never made 40 appearances or more in a single season with Arsenal or sociedad.

He's never broke over 3000 minutes in a season since leaving us. At Arsenal his best season for minutes and appearances would have been the 20/21 season at 38 appearances and 2927 minutes he then does something like 2100 odd minutes the next season for 22/22 and thereafter he's struggled to break 1500 minutes.

Regardless I think every celtic fan is excited to see him back ASAP and if he's recent showings for Arsenal mean anything is despite all the injuries and lack of game time, coming back to us may have given him, career wise a second wind