Gabby Agbonlahor has backed Newcastle United transfer target Kieran Tierney to leave Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal in the summer.
The former striker added ‘I wouldn’t want to sell Kieran Tierney’, but given that there is a possible offer on the table from Newcastle United, then he thinks the left-back should be allowed to leave, as he told talkSPORT (17/05/23 at 8:55 am).
Last season, the Scotland international was Mikel Arteta’s main guy at left-back, to the point that his absence through injury towards the back end of last season played a part in the team missing out on Champions League football.
But, last summer, Arsenal upgraded that area of the pitch by signing Oleksandr Zinchenko from Manchester City.
It has resulted in Tierney only playing 739 minutes of Premier League football this term – and now there is talk that Eddie Howe wants the 25-year-old at St James’ Park.
Whilst Agbonlahor wouldn’t let the player go from Arsenal’s perspective, he backed the player, who won five league titles in the colours of Scottish Premiership giants Celtic to make that switch up north.
“I wouldn’t want to sell Tierney,” said Agbonlahor. “But there is talk that Newcastle are after him. So, if that’s where they are looking, then you would let Tierney go to Newcastle.”
TIERNEY WOULD BE A BRILLIANT SIGNING FOR NEWCASTLE
Tierney isn’t playing because he put in poor performances or he has dropped off, it’s just a case of a higher quality player, for what Arteta wants in his system, being used instead.
There is no doubt that the flying Scotsman is a European-worthy fullback and he can operate at a high level if provided with that chance.
If Newcastle were to add him to their books, then on top of quality in depth, he would be a brilliant signing for the club.
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