Kieran Tierney: Everton end interest in Celtic and Scotland defender

By Alasdair LamontBBC Scotland

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Everton had been keen to sign Celtic's Kieran Tierney.

Everton have decided against pursuing their interest in the Celtic defender Kieran Tierney.

The 21-year-old defender was one of the players Everton had identified as new manager Marco Silva seeks to reshape his squad.

Now the Premier League club are to turn their attention elsewhere in the search for a long-term replacement for Leighton Baines.

Tierney is under contract with the Scottish champions until 2023.

It was thought Everton had been prepared to offer in the region of £25m for the Scotland international, who was linked with Atletico Madrid in April.

Celtic, though, gave no indication they were willing to let the player go, and Tierney himself is in no hurry to leave.

Their first competitive match against Alashkert in the Champions League first qualifying round takes place on Tuesday, with the return leg in Glasgow seven days later.

Tierney, who played at left wing-back in Sunday's 7-0 friendly win at Shamrock Rovers, has made 130 Celtic appearances, scoring seven times, and has been capped by Scotland on nine occasions.

He has captained both club and country and has won three Premiership titles and three domestic cups with Celtic.

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  • Comment posted by EMG, at 18:51 8 Jul 2018

    Gers fan here, he’s a good young player with a good attitude, clearly loves the club which a lot of people dont seem to understand, think if he has another good season then a top 6 maybe top 8 team will come in for him in EPL, like I said he’s young let him develop into a quality Scots international.

  • Comment posted by nuke_em_all, at 14:17 8 Jul 2018

    Not a celtic fan in the slightest, but Tierney is far better than Everton.

  • Comment posted by gordon_061, at 13:38 8 Jul 2018

    Not a Celtic fan but he would have undersold himself going to Everton

  • Comment posted by Andrew Gillies, at 17:43 8 Jul 2018

    With all due respect I believe Tierney is a significant level above Everton FC.

  • Comment posted by U16805582, at 15:04 8 Jul 2018

    After reading the above journalistic fertiliser, its seems that the supposed £25m bit from Everton was really a figment of various journalists, less than sparkling ,imaginations.

  • Comment posted by BMc, at 14:17 8 Jul 2018

    ‘Everton end interest in Tierney’. Is that perhaps to do with the fact that KT himself never actually had any interest and the whole saga is a classic case of post truth media lies designed to get clicks? Everton offer £25 mill then do what you say? Decide it was too much? Eh?. I smell Hereford Bull’s finest. Spin away hacks there’s a treble treble on the way.

  • Comment posted by thetic67, at 13:35 8 Jul 2018

    Great news . And of course we have other great news that a glib liar is back in court . Fit and proper person ? The SFA needs cleansed . Time the SFA and SPFL opened their records for all to examine and not just glib liars

  • Comment posted by Ewanmax, at 18:31 8 Jul 2018

    It'll be interesting to watch the English league system collapse in on itself when SKY decide to start cutting back on the amounts they hand over to finance this over inflated transfer market.

  • Comment posted by Paolo B, at 13:55 8 Jul 2018

    A non story from start to finish. He is a Bhoy who is living his dream. Next Club/Country captain.

  • Comment posted by U16805582, at 18:22 8 Jul 2018

    I see the govannite horde are on here barking on about how KT is not worth the money, what they should really be commenting on is the deep dark hole the South African crook is about to lead them down. It's time he finally puts his big mouth where his money is and pay the poultry £11m he was supposed to have payed a while back. Until then go back to your kennels and stop barking at your betters.

  • Comment posted by Churchy, at 19:13 8 Jul 2018

    Hats off to the football fans on here who know what's what. Bigots in blue are envious. Quite right too.

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  • Comment posted by Madden83, at 17:28 8 Jul 2018

    the fact that we can turn our nose up at 25m makes every sevco fan feel sick. we have spent more money on lighting at the stadium this year than they have on players lol. new hotel museum on the way too. great to support a properly run club. its going to be a long wait for your clubs first spl title.

  • Comment posted by bawbeewan, at 16:00 8 Jul 2018

    No contact , no offer, no chance.... A non story

  • Comment posted by tomfer, at 18:24 8 Jul 2018

    @93jod

    I think you are actually talking about the SKY EPL there mate ,if anyone is deluded about their pathetic league it is the EPL and its followers .The best players in the EPL are ALL foreign players ,without which the EPL would be the mundane bore it really is ,outside of the top six or maybe even four .Watched too many english matches where they have boring draws scrabbling for the money

  • Comment posted by Billy Rice, at 16:42 8 Jul 2018

    @49 Barry......

    Everton (or any club) didn’t offer Celtic £25M.

    Therefore Celtic couldn’t be “absolutely insane” as you put it, to refuse the offer.

    I would advise you that this is all media spun speculation and has no basis in actual events.

  • Comment posted by Martarslipstick, at 16:32 8 Jul 2018

    How is this even news? and why a comments thread?- speculation based on no quotes.

  • Comment posted by hibbyska , at 15:05 8 Jul 2018

    Maybe Sevco could sign him since they are flush with money for the time being , I mean surely Glasgow's newest club deserves one good signing in their 6 year history

  • Comment posted by Damnsmoothskins, at 14:25 8 Jul 2018

    Nonsense story from the start. SMSM trying to create hype.

    Remember when Atletico Madrid scouted Tierney and Arsenal had Brendan Rodgers on a managerial shortlist? Nah, me either but the ghullibles do!

  • Comment posted by DavieBob, at 08:52 9 Jul 2018

    Hang on, due to lack of sources in all this should it not read:

    “Everton who may or may not have had an interest in young left back Kieran Tierney are now definitely not interested, if indeed they had been originally. The reason for this isn’t clear so we picked options 4 and 8 from ‘how to write football articles without doing any actual journalism’. We picked the number 25 just cos”

  • Comment posted by god boy, at 14:09 8 Jul 2018

    Another Paul McStay.

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