According to Football Insider Manchester City remains keen on signing Kieran Tierney from Arsenal.
Tierney has struggled to play at the Emirates this season, but he remains one of the finest left-backs in England.
Defensively, he is the best at Arsenal, but Oleksandr Zinchenko offers more in midfield and attack, which has made the Ukrainian the first choice at the Emirates.
Tierney wants to play more often, which could make him ask for a move away from the Emirates at the end of this campaign.
The report claims City likes the Scotsman and is exploring the possibility of luring him away from North London.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Tierney deserves to play more games for us because of his consistency and undoubted talent.
However, Zinchenko seems more suited to what we want to achieve on the field, which could see us lose the Scottish international.
It remains unclear if City is preparing a bid already, but swapping Arsenal for the Etihad is a move most players will make.
If the Citizens make an official approach, we might struggle to keep Tierne with us because City is a much more successful team than we are at the moment.
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Just wondering what the master tactician, Pep, sees in Tierney that our own rookie manager is unable to see.
At the moment it’s just a rumour without any substance.
He will be super provider to Haaland with his crosses
No. I’d rather we sell to Real Madrid.
We can’t strengthen a direct rival for the title and top 4 in Man City (and Newcastle as well).
KT is not a Rob Holding. Selling him to City or Newcastle will come back to haunt us.
That’s how we will keep on loosing our finest players due to preferential treatments against them which comes back to haunt us. I will support him to jump ship if City came calling.
Teams are now fully aware of the gaps left by Zinchenko in his “inverted” role and are exploiting it big time as the goals conceded in the last 5 matches confirm.Sadly, Arteta is a stubborn individual who refused to acknowledge the glaring weaknesses in our defence compounded by the erratic Ramsdale and Gabriel in particular and as a consequence we are shipping goals to every opponent while our excellent LB site on the bench.I have it on “good authority” that Tierney will be lining up for Newcastle next season and I wish him every success with them.There are times when top Management have to recognise their errors of judgement and to take steps to rectify their mistakes,but ,thus far, our young Manager seems reluctant to admit he has got it wrong with Tierney and others who have rarely had game time this season.It’s not surprising that some of our players, inc!using Saka and Marginally are in the red zone.
I think KT should be getting more game time as he is a better defensive player than Zichenko.But at the same time Zichenko is a class player and we do play better with him in the side..Also I get fed up and annoyed with all the criticism of Rob Holding, he is no Saliba but he never lets us down ,he actually has played better than Gabriel the last few games.
You are absolutely correct Gary.Gabriel and Ramsdale are decidedly “ropey” and have been directly responsible for many of the goals we have shipped recently .
We can sell Tierney to whomever. He can’t finish a full season at any club without injuries so his impact won’t be that strong.
Well, he will not be injured this season that’s for sure.And who will Arsenal bring in to play left back, something that Zinchenko is not and never will be.A very good technician but a poor defender like Gabriel.
Guys,
Tierney is not perfect but I don’t want him to go. He is not willing to sit on the bench as much as he does. He is a decent squad player for us, but he’d be a first team starter and perfect for Newcastle. He deserves first team football and Arteta doesn’t want to give him that. Zinchenko is definitely not a defender but we knew that from the beginning. As long as he plays left back we will be vulnerable. The City players had no fears about him or Jesus. Six months ago I had serious doubts about Partey and Gabriel, but then they started playing really well. Unfortunately they’ve gone backwards again. I’m not sure we will win another game this season the way things are going. By the way Southampton couldn’t score a goal at home to Bournemouth last night !!!!.
If City get KT, it will be the icing on the cake for them. Sell us a non-defender and get a real upgrade for the same fee.
Why sell KT when he offers what we dont have. Sell Rob holding Arsenal for 25 million to Newcastle. Let Reiss go he’ll be an important player in a smaller team.
Although Tierney has been sidelined he has played in a lot of matches for us this season, the second highest in the four years he has been here as we have managed to keep him injury free. Whether he sees it or not, that is good management, if we had not brought in Zinchenko there would have been a very good chance he would have got injured again and possibly worse.
I think in the long term this season will have done him a favour, whether he sees it like that is another question. He may want to go to Newcastle and play or go to City and sit on a different bench but with the bonus of medals. We do however have him under contract for three seasons so are in a very strong position to hold on to a player who will be valuable next season when we are in the Champions League and need more strength in depth.
Zinchenko is becoming our Trent Alexander Arnold, brilliant in attack but vulnerable in defence. In both cases they are dependent on high quality mobile centre backs to cover for them. It is why Trent cannot play for England.