Kieran Tierney

Yes and I said it before he signed the dotted line.

As you were.

 

We're not watching the first Tierney we had who played every game and burst his heart making runs all day, we're watching our top earner as a player being managed just to play a few games, against Dundee him and Tounetki didn't look as if they'd met before kickoff.

 

He is a man short every game no tracking back .. barely going past players the odd run up but if he does that he cant get back. Not for me and I said that before we even signed him.

 

What mainly excited me for his return was that ability to overlap. Mainly because his crossing ability is fantastic. Feels like more often than not he'll always either pick out a Celtic player or put it into a really dangerous area that the opposition defence isn't tracking.

It was his ultimate weapon. And given how slow Premiership full-backs generally are, it's something that would've resulted in a lot more goals from us if he had that ability.

I didn't watch him much at Arsenal in the final year or so, so I wasn't aware if he still had that ability or not. But at Celtic this time around he simply doesn't do it. Or at least barely. He looks as if he's constantly trying to preserve energy instead of actually spend it to create goalscoring opportunities for us.

Really, really frustrates me that this isn't a part of his game anymore. It's what made him what he was.