What Kieran Tierney said on holiday about Brendan Rodgers and leaving Arsenal to join Celtic

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Kieran Tierney returned to Celtic after months of waiting for his Arsenal contract to run down.

Tierney left Arsenal at the end of May and almost immediately, Celtic announced his signing as he made his return to his boyhood club.

Since then Tierney has featured in the wins over Sporting CP Portugal and then Newcastle at Celtic Park.

The full-back certainly seems to be loving life at Celtic already and it appears that the excitement Tierney shared with Mark Guidi when the Hoops star bumped into the journalist on holiday is shining through.

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Kieran Tierney ‘buzzing’ at what he’s seeing from Celtic under Brendan Rodgers

Tierney looks like the cat that got the cream now he’s back at Celtic and Guidi has shared what the full-back told him privately about how the club are looking under Brendan Rodgers.

Guidi told The Go Radio Football Show [4m], “Yeah, I actually bumped into him on holiday during the summer and I had a quick chat with him.

“And he was genuinely buzzing before he’d taken his first day of pre-season. He was absolutely buzzing to be back at Celtic.

“Really excited to what he feels he can do at the club, and the direction the club is going in under Brendan Rodgers.

“So he is a terrific signing and played his part on Saturday in the friendly win against Newcastle.”

What Kieran Tierney ‘sacrificed’ to secure his move from Arsenal to Celtic

Tierney was on well over £10,000 per week at Arsenal. With the best will in the world, Celtic could never, nor should they, pay any player that kind of money.

And in a recent interview with Celtic TV, Rodgers revealed what Tierney gave up to secure his return to Paradise.

Rodgers said, “Make no doubt about it, Kieran has sacrificed to come back here in a financial way because he really wanted to come back.

“I think it tells you everything about what he missed and that feeling that he missed when he left.

“I know the clubs involved because I was part of the process in bringing him back so I know where he could have gone.