Brendan Rodgers backed to secure ‘outstanding’ transfer deal but Celtic star might be ‘fuming’

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Celtic are yet to make their mark with the 2025 January transfer window over a week old.

There is no need to rush because things are going swimmingly well for Brendan Rodgers, but he has made it clear that he does want to add to the Celtic squad this month.

This is a great position for the champions to be in because the League Cup trophy is in hand and Rodgers is heading towards winning multiple trophies in a single season again.

But, for the first time in a long time, Celtic are heading towards the Champions League knockout stages and that extra depth is going to be needed and tested more than ever before.

That’s why it’s going to be interesting to see the type of players that are brought in because fans have always craved those ready-made stars and they may now get their wish.

Unless you have been living under a rock, only one man has been donning the headlines and that’s Arsenal’s soon-to-depart star, Kieran Tierney.

Alan Hutton feels sorry for Greg Taylor amid Kieran Tierney and Celtic talks

Rodgers fueled noise around Tierney when he felt that fans disrespected Greg Taylor by singing the Arsenal star’s name during the win over St Mirren.

Alan Hutton admitted that he ‘feels’ for Celtic’s starting left-back because his mind could now be muddled by this whole situation and he could be ‘fuming’, as he told Premier Sports.

Of course, Taylor’s Celtic contract is yet to be resolved, so that just adds to the drama.

Darrell Currie states: “You would imagine that his (Tierney’s) minutes, if he did come back, would have to be managed for a while, so don’t you need another excellent left-back option, regardless? Isn’t that the kind of position you could have two top players in?”

Michael Stewart then asks Hutton: “But, Alan are you going to accept that? Would you accept that?” To which Hutton responded: “No, absolutely not. I wouldn’t. I would be raging.

“See if I am Greg Taylor right now and this is the news, then I am fuming. It’s as simple as that. I would probably walk in, want and demand to know what’s happening. I would burst the door down and demand to know what is exactly going on and where everything was. My contract. Is he coming? Is he in front of me if he comes? Am I playing? I would want to know everything. It’s a fair (question to ask). You look at how well Taylor has played. What he has won for the club. But, at the back of his mind, he knows if Tierney comes and he is fit, then he will play. You just know as a player when somebody like that comes in, then they are going to play, so I feel for him.”

Celtic told Tierney would be an ‘outstanding’ signing from Arsenal

There is strong competition all over the place and if Tierney comes in, then it certainly take the Celtic starting XI to the next level.

Hutton admitted that, when Tierney initially left his boyhood club for Arsenal in 2019, he thought he would go on to play for the London club ‘for years’, but it hasn’t worked out.

But the former right-back made it clear that, if Tierney is fit and ready, then he will prove to be an ‘outstanding’ purchase for the champions of Scotland.

“I genuinely thought Tierney would go down there,” added Hutton about Tierney’s move to Arsenal in 2019. “He had all the ability. He could have been Arsenal captain and he could have been there for years.

“Unfortunately, it didn’t work out. A huge opportunity has come for him. The question mark is, can he keep him fit?

“He is only what? 27? If they can, it’s an outstanding signing. But you need competition. You need another player that’s going to be there. But is Taylor willing to take a back seat to stay there? That’s the big question.”