Newcastle: Journalist talks up Kieran Tierney signing

Arsenal left-back Kieran Tierney can be an astute signing by Newcastle United this summer season, in response to switch knowledgeable Dean Jones.

Do Newcastle need to signal Tierney?

The Magpies are set to embark upon a busy summer season switch window, with the funds out there to signal high gamers, particularly after qualifying for subsequent season’s Champions League.

Tierney is one in all a bunch of people who has been linked with a transfer to St James’ Park, with the £110,000-a-week Scot’s Arsenal future up within the air. He struggled to take pleasure in common soccer for the Gunners in 2022/23, being restricted to solely six begins within the Premier League, and it’s arduous to see that altering with Oleksandr Zinchenko such a key man.

For that cause, the 26-year-old may really feel that he wants to maneuver on earlier than the start of the brand new marketing campaign, and it may very well be that Newcastle are an ideal match.

May Tierney be the perfect match for Magpies?

Chatting with Give Me Sport, Jones talked up the thought of Tierney in a Magpies shirt, saying he’s a signing that makes full sense in comparison with different targets, particularly Marc Cucurella:

“My hunch can be Kieran Tierney. I believe that is in all probability the participant that higher matches that Newcastle crew. In the event you mix all of his traits after which take a look at what you’ll be taking a look at within the make-up of that Newcastle beginning 11, I believe Tierney can be a very nice match.

“In the event you’ve obtained the previous model of Cucurella then possibly you can begin to carry that again, however you do not know how lengthy it may take for him to return.”

Tierney, who has been hailed as a “top-level” participant by Stan Cullymoore, may very well be a improbable possibility for Newcastle to snap up this summer season, coming in as a very completely different participant to Dan Burn at left-back. Whereas the latter has performed beautifully in that function, the Arsenal man would supply pure width from left-back, arguably giving the facet a greater stability within the course of.

A tally of 5 targets and 14 assists for the Gunners exhibits that he could be efficient within the attacking third, however he’s additionally an excellent defender, averaging 1.8 clearances and 1.3 tackles per recreation for Scotland throughout 4 European Championship qualifiers.

Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta has described Tierney as “improbable” within the latest previous, and he’s a participant who appears tailored to thrive for Newcastle, enhancing the squad depth significantly however probably coming in as a part of the strongest doable beginning XI on the identical time.