Arsenal are set to allow some of their current stars to leave to help raise funds for the transfer deals they want to complete. One player who could be in his last days as a Gunner is Kieran Tierney.
The Scottish international has struggled for game time this season; Oleksander Zinchenko just came in last summer and made the left back position his own.
Tierney has been relegated to being Zinchenko’s deputy, a situation that reportedly makes him keen to leave. For the last few months, Newcastle has been keen on the 25-year-old, but now Manchester City has been noted as another admirer. In the same breath as City eye Tierney, Arsenal has earmarked Joao Cancelo as their next Manchester City raid.
Interestingly, as per Football Transfers, there’s a suggestion that Arsenal and Manchester City could consider agreeing to a swap deal involving Cancelo and Tierney.
While Tierney has become irrelevant at the Emirates, Cancelo’s future is also not at the Etihad.
A swap deal could be a mutual deal, though City, with their £70 million valuation on their man, could prove tricky. Anyway, don’t you think if Pep wants Tierney, allowing him to have him would be a mistake? It will literally strengthen the main title rival.
Anyway, if they are losing him for Cancelo, it may be worth it, and Paul Dickov hinted why having the Portuguese full back in your team is well worth it when he said, “He’s been outstanding. He’s assisting and scoring goals himself, and for me, he’s the best full-back in terms of creating stuff and how important he is to the team… The form he’s showing this season in either full-back position, he’s right up there (with the best in the world).”
Does this sound like an interesting idea to you?
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Absolutely but I very much doubt pep would want Tierney ,who I see going to Newcastle if the reports are true ,which at this moment in time is about his Lvl .
Yeah I would say he would be a perfect fit for Newcastle. Just for once, I hope we manage to get a good fee!
And a short drive from Newcastle back to Glasgow
Pep Guardiola fancies Kieran Tierney but Mikel Arteta doesn’t; WTF?
Hey Dan, Newcastle’s level is quite high at the moment!
I can’t see anything in this. It’s the classic ploy the press always use to create stories from thin air.
Take a player that has a personal connection with another club or manager, along with issues the player has at his current club, and bang…there’s your story!
Makes no sense, unless Arteta is planning on moving Zinchenko into a permanent midfield role. White has been one the best RB’s in the league barring the last month or so, meaning he stays as first choice.
Cancelo doesn’t like sitting on the bench, and would be a very expensive bench player at that!
Apparently Cancelo is equally good on left and right, like Tomiyasu…..
City value Cancelo at 60M,at least that’s what they’re asking Bayern in order to make the deal permanent (option to buy).how much is KT worth?is he worth 60M too?.
Lastly,I doubt that City are interested in KT.in recent weeks Pep publicity criticised and benched Walker because of his inability to play as an inverted full-back,seeing that both players are pretty similar,it wouldn’t make sense would it?
To truthfully answer the precise question asked in this woolly sounding headline, the obvious answer is”Some will, some wont!”
As we are all Arsenal fans on here, even if one voted one way and all the others voted the other way, that would still mean a split in opinion.
The reason WHY I write this comment, is to illustate to those fans who commonly react first and think too late(or not at all) to whatever they respond to on JA,is that questions and headlimes in MOST of the media are not innocently posed but are deliberately asked in orderrto provoke debate, probably heated debate and sometimes contoversy and forced polarisation of views
Consider, when there are political interviews on TV, RADIO etc. It is virtually always to attract people who react first and then think second. This site is not different from the norm , even though for years I have tried to make this very point ,over and over again, but in vain.
I freely admit that despite the above, I too have many times fallen into this veryTRAP, I am warning you about.
It Is my friends of vital importance , ALWAYS, to first THINK before responding or in fury.
I am resolved to always do this in future and not to fall into easily spotted traps of such woolly and slanted headlines. In fact , to further blame myself would be honest and correct, because unlike so many others , who are unaware of such slanted questioins being commonly asked, in the media in general, I have ALWAYS KNOWN beforehand about such traps and yet have continued falling into them.
Some others have been unaware of them and are thus unprepared, making them helpless innocents, compared to myself.
I fully expect this post to bore the pants off some, for others to slate me for having a different opinion from most.
But I point out that nothing ever changes for the better ,nor any improvements ever made, until SOMEONE blows the whistle on what is wrong and retrograde..
Just think how many things in life have improved since someone first warned “this wont do, and needs changing!”
IF to you its just another headline, just another question, to which you rreact first and think later, then please disregard my whole message. It wasnt meant for you but for those who WISH to think.
Jon Jon Jon !
Excellent article, however we need to talk.
Article meaning your post.
Jeez Jon,
In case you hadn’t noticed, my job on JustArsenal is to promote debate. That is my whole raison d’etre!
Are you going to start tediously criticising every headline once again.
Admin Pat: your “raison d’être”,really?i do not personally know you but surely you are more than JA??
As for Jon”starting to tediously criticizing every headline/article..”he’s been doing it for a long time now!!
No PAT. Nothing is further from my mind. In fact, though I include this headline to help make my point, my MAIN POINT was not about JA at all, but instead about how the media in general, esp more downmarket media esp Sky, TalkSport and most red top papers, LURE people into ferocious debate with only their viewing or listening, or buying paper figures, in mind. That, to my mind, reeeks of sharp practice.
I am setting out to get more JA readers and posters to think first about what they are saying and why they are saying it That should,if you are wise, be obviously BENEFICIAL to JA and certainly NOT harmful.
My whole reaison d’etre inlife(to borrow your phrase)is to help people understand what makes we humans tick and to see the many traps that commercial life sets up for us to fall into.
Take how top level football is financed, as a perfect example of how cunningly and rapacious capitalism forces ordinary, decent, non wealthy fans, to effectively PAY the huge wages of grossly greeedy players.
I have been trying to educate naive but decent fans about this financial trap for many, many, years and long before I came on JA too. My philosophy inlife is to stand up for ordinary hard pressed people , and in our case football fans, who are being bullied into spending more then they can comfortably afford by a conspiracy between those who run football and all those who advertise and promote it, for their own profit. That is morally wrong and so I fight against it.
It does grieve me that our own JA is doing much the same, though of course on a vastly smaller scale.
As evidence of this, witness your own tie ups with betting companies which you often mention in your articles.
It is for JA’s profit only, not your customers, and betting , to all those who do NOT understand how cunningly it works and how people are sucked in to it, often ruining their lives in the process, is dangerous. I AM FAR FROM ALONEIN CRITICISING JA FOR PROMOTING BETTING, AS MANY POSTS HAVE DONE LIKEWISE.
For now, that is all I wish to say on this matter. But I urge you, once again, to think properly about what you wish us to learn from JA .
There are a lot of shrewd thinkers out there who would LOVE to delve deeper into the psyche of fooball and football fans, IFONLY you will let them speak fully!.
That’s why tv companies want to interview managers and players straight after the game as there is a higher percentage they will say the wrong thing, look at Kevin Keegan losing it, the emotions are running high and when you are angry your IQ drops so you will say the wrong thing, it’s classic clickbait
Doesn’t make any sense to me. If Tierney can only make our bench why would Pep want him? Newcastle sounds more realistic.
Agree!!
Different managers have different opinions on players. Maybe Pep, Howe and others see abilities (and ways to utilize them) in Tierney that Arteta does not.
Tierney is far from irrelevant. He has played 34 times this season, which is the second most appearances he has put in for us. I know most were from the bench but it has been good management of a player who has been plagued by injuries ever since he arrived. We will need him even more depth next season when we are back in the Champions League, plus Zinchenko’s place at full back is far from secure when he keeps making basic errors.
Great reply Nabilo – I can’t think of any sensible fan thinking that Tierney is “irrelevant” and it is obvious that those who say Newcastle is his “level” didn’t watch them dismantle Brighton days after the Seagulls did exactly the same to us.
Such arrogance!!
I don’t know what MA is planning regarding Kieren, but I remember a totally committed Arsenal player who has never complained or brought the club into disrepute and, like Jon Fox, I do wish fans would THINK before showing their ignorance…. just my opinion of course.
Very well said Ken.Arrogance for sure and also ignorance.
Arrogance !
Ignorance!
Good one ken 👍
👍👍👍 Nabilo, ken and Grandad, we can only hope that Arteta agrees.
Personally I think this would be a deal struck in heaven, it’s a no brainer as far as am concerned.
Tierney will be ring rusty soon, its is sheer discipline and determination why he has not look out of place yet.
Why keep such a good player on the bench to grow Cobb web and rust , while we all know he will be sparingly use.
I sanction this deal, the problem is the Citizens will not be in hurry as they will be guided by recent history.
Bloody hell Gunsmoke at last we are on the same page and in the same time-zone for once. Yes Cancelo would do nicely, I’ve posted about this on the previous Cancelo article which is still available. I think Admin is beginning to repeat themselves.
Cancelo is wearing the Bayern kit on the other thread. He’d be expensive and may want to go to Spain. Who knows.
Cancelo, who will be 30 next year has not set the heather on fire with Bayern and as a consequence they will not be taking up their option to buy.Furthermore, he had a very disappointing World Cup and was left out of the starting eleven by the long serving Manager of Portugal.With Tierney on his way to Newcastle we will need a replacement as Zinchenko has proved to be weak defensively.No one jumps out at me in the Premier League to fill the inverted role, which is exclusive to Arsenal this season.Perhaps other sides will follow suit next season, but I doubt it.
Did you see my post to you about Tierney earlier today ?
I can’t believe how giddy people are about this headline. Swap a high quality defender capable of delivering good crosses in the box and overlapping the winger (which I’m slightly annoyed that Arteta has not played him to his strengths) for a 30 year old who is likely to not fit our current team atmosphere and just be another defensive liability when we already have Zinchenko. Can’t believe what I am hearing
👍 Dylan.
Swap deals ,in order to be of valueto both sides, need to allow for the difference ,often a big difference, in players AGES.
TIERNEY IS SEVERAL YEARS YOUNGER THAN CANCELO and so has much longer still to play at top level .
I would personally NOT be in favour of a straight swop at all, simply for the reason of age. To be more precise, I also consider it foolish to blithely let go a dedicated proven REAL defender as full back, to bring,in an almost 30 year old player who is NOT pulling up trees at all ever since he left City. Not for me then!
Cancelo is a good player who recently fell out with Pep, supposedly because he felt he deserved more playing time.
City got him out of the club by loaning him to Bayern, where it seems he did not prosper.
I must say, based on his recent behaviour, I would be loathe to have him in our dressing room, but hopefully Arteta knows him better!
Oh that was just my opinion OFC .
Ment to be reply to Ken .
Same for me Dan,, same for me.
I do not think City.want Tierney, they play a three man defence with either Ake or Akanji on the left and both are doing well.
I do not think we want Cancelo, he fell out with Pep and Arteta probably will not want a character that his mate has decided is a bad apple.
But apart from that it is a great idea!