Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has confirmed that an agreement has been impacted to re -sign the Arsenal on the left Kieran Tierney this summer.
Tierney left Celtic Boyood Celtic for Arsenal in 2019, but after six years at the Emirates Stadium he will be released for free transfer At the end of the season after the Gunners refused to trigger their option to expand their contract.
Some parts of the Premier League welcomed Tierney but Celtic moved aggressively To get to the front of the queue for signature, and Rodgers has now opened the door to attract Tierney to Scotland as soon as this week.
“It is still at this time a Arsenal The player, “Rodgers said in the media.” I think we agree that it will definitely take place in the summer. If we can do it before, then great.
“I do not want to talk -too much with the utmost respect, because now he is not a Celtic player here. But if we could do it, of course, we would like to do time ”.
Tierney is not in any case a regular headline under Mikel Arteta, but the chief of the Gunners can be reluctant to lose the 27 -year -old this month after offering Tierney a good handful of appearances on the bench in recent weeks.
After losing the start of the season with an injury to an hamstrings, Tierney made four appearances in January for a total of 39 minutes, providing coverage after a wounded spell for Riccardo Calafieri. It can be kept if Oleksandr Zinchenko can leave before the end of the month: Ukrainian has attracted interest in Bundesliga The Borussia Dortmund giants after falling behind Myles Lewis-Skelly in the pecking order.