He came with an injury when we bought him that we knew about, before that didn’t he play a large number of games with Celtic?
The shoulder injury he picked up vs West Ham was a freak accident where he landed awkwardly.
No idea what this recent one is but it could be absolutely harmless. Selling our best performer is just ridiculous.
Well the shoulder cost him about 3 months, the initial injury also still counts, we signed him and he was unavailable.
For what it’s worth mate I have zero interest in selling Tierney at this point, who is one of about 6 players I believe is at the level we need as a starter, alongside Leno, Gabriel, Partey, Saka and Auba.
I think the idea is that if his fitness issues carry on into next season and we have a third season of him missing games then it’s not unreasonable to consider moving on from him.
He’s played 32 out of 61 league games since arriving and a run of games has caused fatigue which seems outrageous for a high level football player barely half way into the season.
According to Wikipedia he played 102 league games for Celtic between 2015-2019
so it would be even more when you factor in the domestic cups and European football
It counts but that is the only major injury he has had in his career.
I don’t think we can straight away call him injury prone yet.
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Reactionary Arsenal fans. I cannot believe it :ozil:
I hope we sell him too, only for a different reason. A great player like him needs to not ply his trade at a tinpot chickenshit organisation such as Arsenal.
How is it reactionary to suggest we shift a player who (if he struggles with injuries next season) is shifted and replaced? That would be 3 seasons of injury problems since arriving.
There’s literally nothing reactionary about the suggestion.
It’s just I’ve seen the posts in this thread go from ‘legend’ and ‘captain’ to ‘sell-him’, ‘get rid to napoli’ twice now.
I agree he’d certainly be a legend at Napoli and they’d be a fool not to make him their captain.
I can’t sit here and not point out the irony of the Scottish Luca laughing at “reactionary Arsenal fans” 
I’m an arsenal fan
I’d say I’m less reactionary than most, and more on the stubborn side. I don’t think I’ve changed much on my major viewpoints on Lacazette, Arteta, Auba etc.
Maybe I get wound up easily, which is where the 'luca’ness may come from. But that’s not the same as being reactionary.
What do you mean here when you use the term reactionary?
As in, reacting too quickly and changing opinion prematurely. This isn’t just about @SRCJJ btw.
Just the general picture in this thread.
Cheers, just making sure we’re on the same page.
What’s a 3 year old article got to do with his current fitness issues?
I love Tierney and I really want him to succeed here but I do think we need to settle on a definition of the young man as a fanbase, he’s either the hardest tesco bag toting son of a bitch alive or else he’s a sick note, I don’t think he can be both.
I’d love him to be the former but I think it’s time to start preparing in our next window that he may be the latter. Wouldn’t entertain the thought of selling him or Partey though, I’d rather have a handful a games a season of pure class than a lifetime of unbreakable Xhaka.
OMG is he still injured?! Just get rid in the summer. Bloke clearly hasnt got the balls to play in the prem.
First part has been explained tbh. Without that freak shoulder injury he’d have played a lot more.
The second part ia pure conjecture tbh. Every player picks up knocks. Lets not forget the calendar is insanely compressed this season and Tierney plays out of skin every game. He’s created the most chances for us if I’m not mistaken.
I love Tierney and don’t want him sold.
But facts are facts, he has played 31 of 62 league games since arriving which = injury prone thus far.