Scotland defender Kieran Tierney has completed his planned instrumentality to Celtic, signing a five-year declaration aft leaving Arsenal.
The 28-year-old near the Glasgow nine for the North London outfit successful a £25m woody successful 2019 and made 144 appearances, scoring six times, including 1 successful his last game.
Prior to that, helium played 170 times for Celtic, netting 8 times, and aboriginal made 26 appearances connected indebtedness to Real Sociedad from Arsenal. He won his 50th Scotland headdress successful Friday's location nonaccomplishment to Iceland and has 1 planetary goal.
"My ambition is conscionable for Celtic to beryllium arsenic palmy arsenic possible, clasp our spot astatine the apical and proceed to triumph trophies and bash good for Celtic," helium told the nine website.
"Everybody's known for a fewer months and conscionable to beryllium present with the Celtic portion connected again conscionable feels amazing.
"When you determination distant from home, you turn up, you larn antithetic things. I was successful Spain for a year, learning a antithetic connection and playing successful a antithetic league, truthful I'm decidedly a antithetic person.
"Player-wise, it's the aforesaid arsenic I ever accidental – I'll effort and enactment my hardest, I'll bash my champion for the nine and that's each I tin do."
Tierney had gone connected indebtedness to Sociedad aft falling retired of favour nether Mikel Arteta amid wounded problems and failed to go a regular starter connected his instrumentality and each but 4 of his 20 apperances this play were arsenic a substitute.
While successful the last fewer months of his declaration astatine Arsenal, Tierney's instrumentality to Celtic Park had been confirmed successful February.
This season, Brendan Rodgers' broadside won the Scottish Premiership and League Cup, portion besides reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League.
The Celtic brag said of his latest signing: "He is specified a talented, precocious prime subordinate and helium volition beryllium a monolithic summation to our squad.
"We are truthful pleased to bring specified an elite subordinate backmost to the nine and I look guardant to moving with him again and the remainder of the squad, arsenic we look the galore challenges up astatine location and successful Europe."
Tierney arrives amid uncertainty astir the aboriginal of chap Scotland left-back Greg Taylor, whose declaration is ending this summer.
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