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Defender speaks out after snubbing proposed £10m Arsenal move

By on May 23, 2017

According to quotes in the Mirror, Celtic defender Kieran Tierney had ‘no doubt’ he wanted to snub a proposed £10m move to Arsenal in favour of staying at Celtic Park.

Tierney has been strongly linked with a move to the Emirates for over a year and the Mirror cite a report from the Daily Record that claimed Arsenal were looking to sign the left-back in a £10m deal last summer.

A move failed to materialise but the 19-year-old has continued to be linked with a switch south of the border with the Mirror suggesting that Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool are among the clubs interested.

However, it looks like we’ll be wasting our time pursuing any deal as Tierney suggests it was an easy decision for him to snub a big-money move last summer and insists he’s happy at Celtic.

The young full-back says he’s flatter by the interest in him but had ‘no doubt’ he was always going to stay at Celtic Park and talks with Brendan Rodgers only further convinced him to remain at his boyhood club and sign a new deal.

Tierney is quoted as saying by the Mirror:

“The manager came in last year and I had been told already there was a big bid there. It was a dream season for me last year individually and the manager said he wanted me to stay and sign a deal.

“As soon as I trained under him, there was no convincing needed. I was going to stay at Celtic anyway. It’s always flattering to hear other clubs are interested but I had no doubt in my mind I wanted to stay.

“The money factor is what a lot of people care about. All I was working towards was earning a new deal at Celtic. I wasn’t looking to move somewhere else.

“The club could have brought in anybody as manager and I would have stayed but after speaking to Brendan I knew something special was happening.

“The way he spoke to me for 10 minutes after the first day at training was brilliant. That has continued all year.”

Tierney has enjoyed a superb campaign with the impressive left-back helping Celtic stay on course to securing an historic treble following an unbeaten league season [the Scottish ‘Invincibles’ don’t have a patch on our Invincibles].

The Scotland international could have been viewed as a potential replacement for Kieran Gibbs as he’s being tipped to leave Arsenal in search of regular football.

However, it looks like Tierney is set to remain with Celtic and recent reports have suggested Wenger is close to capturing Sead Kolasinac on a free transfer from Schalke.

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