Danny Mills has told TalkSPORT listeners that Kieran Tierney is worth far more than the £25m asking price that Celtic appear to have put on the defender.
Arsenal have had bids of £15m and £18m knocked back for Tierney over the last couple of weeks with many EPL ‘experts’ amazed that someone in Scotland can be valued above £20m.
Yesterday Neil Lennon made his views clear on Arsenal’s negotiating tactics with the English side attempting to stretch the value of a transfer budget of £45m.
Mills picked up 19 England caps, including playing at the 2002 World Cup Finals, spending the best years of his career with Leeds United and Manchester City and is now in demand for media work.
Listening in to TalkSPORT this morning the Daily Record reports Mills saying:
Realistically £35-40m for Tierney would be about the ball park. When you go in ridiculously low – if you want a player but go in low it doesn’t say you really want this player. Wan Bissaka was ridiculously over-priced. I’d say £35m-£40m for Tierney would be fair.
he’s decent but not 40 million decent, Danny mills goes on about wan bissaka going for 50 million being hugely over priced ????????
— markgingelees (@markgingelees) July 17, 2019
????no my god!!????
— david gemmell (@daviegemmell) July 17, 2019
40m you smoking crack ????????
— cairn jamieson (@JamiesonCairn) July 17, 2019
The record fee paid for a Scottish based player is the £19.8m that Celtic collected from Lyon for Moussa Dembele a year ago.
Tierney has given no indication that he is looking for a transfer despite a month of constant speculation almost all of it claiming that it would be a life changing move.
Financially it would be beneficial but joining a club that has been out of the Champions League for three seasons and is burdened by Mesut Ozil picking up £350,000 a week for another two years is unlikely to progress his career down the fabled Andy Robertson route.
