Kieran Tierney: Celtic reject Arsenal's improved bid of around £25m for left-back
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Celtic have rejected a second bid, in the region of £25m, from Arsenal for Scotland left-back Kieran Tierney.
The English Premier League club, who had previously had an offer of £15m turned down, had been optimistic a deal could be reached for the 22-year-old.
On Friday, Arsenal increased their instalments-based offer for the defender, who is believed to be keen on moving south.
Talks are expected to continue between Celtic and Arsenal this week.
Tierney, who has also been linked with Italian club Napoli, is currently recovering from a double hernia operation and missed Celtic's opening Champions League qualifier against Sarajevo.
If the deal goes through, he would become the most expensive player in Scottish football history, with a £25m move surpassing the £19.7m Celtic received when striker Moussa Dembele joined Lyon in August 2018.
Tierney, who has been restricted to nine appearances this year, has won four league titles, two Scottish Cups and two League Cups for Celtic.
The news of Celtic's rebuff came as a group of influential Arsenal supporters' organisations, fanzines and blogs joined forces to call for "better leadership" of the club and hit out at Stan Kroenke's "passive ownership".
A total of 16 signatories published a statement on Monday morning demanding change as the Gunners prepare for a third season without Champions League football.
Under a heading of '£WeCareDoYou', the imbalance of the Arsenal board, "soulless" atmosphere at the Emirates Stadium and a lack of transfer strategy are all accusations fired at Kroenke.
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The two best players in the world - Messi and Ronaldo. Well, both have played in the Champion’s League at Celtic Park...
...and, both were on the losing side.
So, stop the ‘pub team’ nonsense. It just makes you look foolish.
I wouldn't say 2004 was recently. The English think they can monopolise the sport with their money then criticise everyone else because they are strangling every chance of serious completion. Hypocrites of the highest order. Get it through your skulls, money is killing the sport. Football has become a farce, and the EPL and Sky are the the biggest culprits
You all said the same about players like Di Canio, Larsson and Van Dijk...
Arsenal fans, you're going to be getting one hell of a left back.
Lol he is not worth 25 mil. How can you rate his ability in the SPL comparatively to the EPL.
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Yeah, you couldnt see how good Van Dijk was either son. I mean, Andy Roberson never made many waves in Scotland...oh but look now!
All your best clubs are foreign owned, foreign coached, foreign managed and their best players are foreign. Take that away and all you're left with is Bolton, Accrington Stanley and Scunthorpe.