Newcastle United has had an interest in Kieran Tierney for much of this season as the Scotsman struggles to play on a regular basis at Arsenal.
He was the main man in the Gunners’ left-back spot before they signed Oleksandr Zinchenko at the end of last season.
The arrival of the Ukrainian has changed the situation for Tierney as he now struggles to play, with Mikel Arteta preferring the former Manchester City man.
This has placed clubs on alert about the availability of Tierney and Newcastle is keen to add him to their group.
Eddie Howe is a fan and The Sun reveals the Magpies are confident they will win the race for his signature.
It remains unclear what plans Arsenal has for him, with Nuno Tavares returning in the summer, but Newcastle is confident they have a chance to land the ex-Celtic man.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Tierney is in a very tough situation now, but we expect him to consider leaving the club at the end of this season.
If we win the league, it would be a fitting way to end his spell at the Emirates. But we are playing in the Champions League next season and probably should keep him for a little longer in our squad.
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Newcastle bound.
Our decision not Tierney’s or Newcastle’s.
It is not our decision. It is a joint decision (player, selling club and buying club). If we do not win the league, would a winner like KT (has been at Celtic) be happy to sit on the bench and collect his wages? PL Trophy may swing his stay but I cannot see it in his case.
He might be but maybe not and I know it’s not always good to keep a player who wants away, if in fact he does, but in the end if we say no, it’s no.
It’s not easy to second guess Arteta and Edu
Football is a team game and while Tierney is a good player albeit kinda fragile, he is also currently an asset. It’s all about how Arteta wants to play and does Tierney fit. If he doesn’t fit, let’s cash in and let Arteta bring someone else in that hopefully provides what the team needs for his vision. Our recent signings have been mostly positive.
There is no doubt Tierney is a top talent but he just doesn’t fits in the gaffer type of play.
Defensively Tierney is head and shoulders above Zinchenko yet he can’t gets in the team ahead of the Ukrainian,
As much as I hate to say it, makes lots of sense to sell Tierney and get the gaffer type of left back, maybe someone like the Real Madrid man who offers both attacking and defensive skills.
Not enough Rotation at LB to be honest, not like it’s a huge drop-off in production.
Did we need another creative player in midfield against Southampton? Thought that’s why Vieira was selected. We needed defense at LB, especially after the way we dropped points the last 3 matches.
Even top players can have some rust when sitting on the bench for weeks and weeks.
Lack of rotation everywhere that’s why when second string players are called upon they’re rusty and can’t perform
I just think it’s difficult to rotate successfully if those ‘second string’ players are not quite good enough in the first place
Are you saying Tierney is not good in the first place?
what i know about Arteta is that, he has is favourite and when is fav ran himself to the ground (Willian and now Zinchenko) is when he decided to change players.
exp is when Zinchenko got injured, Tierney was in for him and we’re playing fine and no one miss Zinchenko cos we’re winning and playing beautiful football.
Jesus also returned from injury and Trossard went straight to the bench.
where is the competition you’re preaching here?
why not let Jesus fight for his place before starting for us fully.
Even if we have Nick Pope as our 2nd keeper, he won’t have play any EPL game till Ramsdale got injured, that’s Arteta for you.
And who is to say people on bench won’t improve if given opportunities?
don’t forget we have ESR, Tierney, Jorginho, Nelson, this are players who can change outcome of a game when given chnace.
Partey and Saka shouldn’t have play some games or even sub them in some matches in 60mins when we’re wining 3:0 ( many of that happened this year) but he won’t.
I remembered Nelson scoring 2 goals in a match bcuz Saka got injure. He won’t have change Saka all through that match if not for injury.
Tweak ur formation and tactics so you will be unpredictable. Now every managers now know our LB spot is to be targeted bcuz Zichenko won’t be available ( just stuff out Mid and a long ball to our left side, that’s all) Zichenko is even lucky he has both GM to his left side, if it was Sak and Holding, it will be worst.
Seriously Arteta really need to leave this fav of a thing behind and give some players min not to get rusty.
This is not how Viera start the season, now is getting worse.
Reading your comment,reminded me the many times that AW was accused of having his favourites.some fans even used to call Ramsdy”Wenger’s son”. we’re talking about a period when our injuries record was very poor.fans were also making fun of his substitutions around the 60th minute.
For some reasons I don’t see much criticism of MA having his favourites or his substitutions at the 83rd,88th…minutes.similar thing with his strange selections.No,instead we get excuses like lack of depth squad,injuries…