Recent reports emerged that Arsenal are set to let go Kieran Tierney just after one season in order to raise extra funds for summer transfers.
Tierney arrived at the Emirates last year in a £25m deal from Celtic, but has been limited to just five appearances in the English top flight due to injuries.
According to journalist Duncan Castles, Leicester City manager Berndan Rodgers is considering to launch a transfer bid for Arsenal left-back Kieran Tierney as Ben Chilwell may leave the King Power stadium for Chelsea or Manchester City in the summer.
Speaking on the Transfer Window podcast, Castles said: “There is a fit there [for Chilwell at Chelsea].
“I think it’s important that Brendan Rodgers, when he was entering Leicester City and looking at last summer’s transfer market, Chilwell was a player he was prepared to let go.
“He felt he could secure a substantial transfer fee for him and if he did the player he had in mind to purchase was Kieran Tierney.
“Obviously neither of those things happened, Tierney went to Arsenal instead and Tierney has struggled through injury, with the managerial changes at Arsenal as well, made just 11 appearances for them so far, just five in the Premier League.
“So when you’re looking at a player who struggled in that first season like that, was bought for a substantial fee, he is at a club which has money problems, they need to make changes to their squad and they need to find revenue to do that.
“So in normal circumstances you would say no chance of getting a player from Arsenal who had been bought for a substantial fee and brought in as part of the last and most recent rebuild.
“Perhaps in these circumstances a deal would be viable for Leicester and I think it fits with Brendan Rodgers’ assessment of the players and the way he has pragmatically looked at his squad at the past.”
Despite all these rumours circulating, it seems rather doltish trying to get my mind around these papers. Now, if you tell me to put Kolasinac on that ship out, it’s something I’d consider – But Kieran Tierney, seriously? – This isolation has got people absurd. Come back already Premier League!
