Jamie Carragher believes Kieran Tierney’s persistent injuries should now worry Arsenal, and they probably needed to sign a replacement for him.
The left-back is one of the best in the business and he constantly proves that when he plays.
However, he is often injured, so Arsenal rarely gets to see him play and they have signed a backup in each of the last two summers.
The defender appears to be the second choice to the recently sign Oleksandr Zinchenko, and former Liverpool man, Carragher believes it was time for Arsenal to consider signing a replacement.
He said on Sky Sport, as quoted by Celtic Way:
“Arsenal needed to strengthen at left-back because Tierney’s injuries now are becoming a problem for him and for the team.”
Just Arsenal Opinion
Tierney needs to get over his injury problem quickly before it cost him his Arsenal career.
The club can only be patient for so long. If Nuno Tavares returns from his loan spell at Olympique Marseille a much-improved player and Tierney is still injury-prone, he could replace the Scotsman.
However, he remains one of the fan favourites at the Emirates and Arsenal supporters will be patient with him as he works his way to full fitness and eliminates his injury problems.
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Zinchenko is already at the club; we don’t need a replacement.
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Zinny is not a natural LB. He’s more of a midfield player, good going forward, but lax at defending. Tavares, on his return, will be the replacement LB…IJS
Is better and earlier to find an immediate solution to the position ( LB) what happened on Friday night during our match with C palace was a big concern to profound tactical solution to.. Good Zinch is good at the pack and upfront but coming back to cover becomes stressful tidiouse for him to overcome, so Arteta must act fast to do something about this.
Carragher should probably concentrate chatting about a defence that shipped 2 goals to championship opposition.
Kt has too much problem staying on the match card we need a tougher lb
*Tierney needs to get over his injury problem quickly before it cost him his Arsenal career**
Making it sound as though he is gettin’ himself injured, intentionally. Mtcheeeeeeew🤔……
Don’t think it’s intentionally. The guy is just fragile. Problem is that his market value will plunge further is he gets injured again this season. In the end, an injured player is worth nothing. Good move on Tavares though.
Don’t think it’s intentionally. The guy is just fragile. Problem is that his market value will plunge further is he gets injured again this season. In the end, an injured player is worth nothing. Good move on Tavares though.
We must give him chance at least this season and if he stays fit we will have one of the best left back in the Premier league .
This season Arteta needs to manage the players well . The likes of Trienny , Partey and Tommy.
Before thinking of a replacement we need to give Nuno Tavares also a chance if he can become a good left back. He had a good start and if he continue that we can have him as well to compete for the spot next season