Arsenal block star from leaving before January transfer deadline despite summer agreement

Arsenal person blocked Kieran Tierney from making a January determination to Celtic.

The Scotland planetary has entered the last six months of his contract astatine the Emirates and is expected to rejoin the Bhoys this summertime after six years successful northbound London.

Celtic brag Brendan Rodgers had hoped to bring guardant a woody to this period with Tierney not portion of Mikel Arteta’s regular starting XI.

‘I deliberation we’re agreed that it volition decidedly instrumentality spot successful the summer. If we tin bash it beforehand, past great,’ Rodgers said this week.

‘I don’t privation to talk excessively overmuch connected it with the top respect, due to the fact that he’s not a Celtic subordinate present present with us. But, if we were capable to bash it, of course, we would similar to bash that, but that’s retired of our power astatine this infinitesimal successful time.’

While Tierney has agreed a pre-contract to instrumentality to Parkhead connected a four-year woody successful the summer, Arsenal volition not let him to marque the determination up of schedule.

The Daily Telegraph reports the Gunners person made it wide Tierney volition stay portion of the squad that is looking to adjacent the spread connected Liverpool astatine the acme of the Premier League.

Arsenal volition besides anticipation to person a engaged European docket for the remainder of the play having reached the knockout stages of the Champions League.

Tierney missed the archetypal 4 months of the play arsenic a effect of a hamstring wounded suffered portion playing for Scotland astatine Euro 2024. Summer signing Riccardo Calafiori has regularly slotted successful astatine left-back with teenage prima Myles Lewis-Skelly besides forcing his mode into the side.

Oleksandr Zinchenko is different enactment astatine left-back, though the Ukraine planetary is different who has been powerfully linked with a January determination away.

Tierney has managed conscionable 16 minutes of Premier League shot since returning to fittingness with his sole commencement this play coming successful the Carabao Cup quarter-final triumph implicit Crystal Palace successful December.

Tierney won 4 Scottish titles with Celtic earlier leaving to articulation Arsenal successful a £25m woody successful 2019. With Zinchenko’s accomplishment limiting starting opportunities, Tierney joined Real Sociedad connected a season-long indebtedness woody successful August 2023.

Everton, Sevilla and Bayer Leverkusen were among the clubs funny successful signing the Scot connected a escaped transportation astatine the extremity of the play but a instrumentality to Celtic awaits.

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