Forgotten Arsenal star Kieran Tierney confirms return to training after injury nightmare

Kieran Tierney has returned to first-team grooming astatine Arsenal, arsenic helium looks to enactment his wounded problems down him.

The left-back has not played a azygous infinitesimal this season, having been connected the sidelines since helium suffered a superior hamstring wounded portion playing for Scotland astatine Euro 2024 successful the summer.

Before that setback, it had seemed apt that Tierney would permission Arsenal earlier the extremity of the transportation window, having spent past play connected indebtedness astatine Real Sociedad and seemingly not been successful Mikel Arteta’s plans.

However, the wounded derailed immoderate plans to unafraid a determination and the 27-year-old has alternatively spent the archetypal fewer months of the play connected a dilatory roadworthy to betterment successful northbound London.

He has astir completed that peculiarly journey, with Tierney taking to Instagram connected Thursday to station pictures of him alongside the likes of Gabriel Martinelli and Oleksandr Zinchenko successful training.

It remains to beryllium seen whether Arteta chooses to usage Tierney erstwhile helium does instrumentality to afloat fitness, but speaking earlier his side’s Carabao Cup triumph implicit Preston astatine the extremity of past month, the Arsenal brag provided a affirmative update.

"I deliberation he’s rather close, helium looks good, truly sharp,” helium said.

“He hasn’t trained with the squad yet, hopefully, helium tin bash that successful the adjacent week oregon two."

Tierney was earlier this play named successful the club’s squad for some the Premier League and Champions League, making him eligible to diagnostic successful the coming weeks.

He could besides perchance play immoderate portion successful Arsenal’s Carabao Cup quarter-final necktie against Crystal Palace adjacent month.