Sociedad won’t pay Arsenal’s asking price

March 11, 2024 La Liga

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Kieran Tierney could reportedly be set to return to Arsenal this summer as Real Sociedad seem to be highly unlikely to pay the £20million required to sign the left-back permanently.

The Scotland international has done well since moving to Sociedad from Arsenal last summer, but it looks like it won’t be easy to get a permanent deal done for the 26-year-old.

According to Mundo Deportivo, as cited and translated by Sport Witness, Tierney’s asking price for a permanent move would likely be as high as £20m, and that’s not an amount Sociedad would be willing to pay.

The La Liga club are not well known for spending vast sums of money, so this seems to be a bit beyond them, raising doubts over Tierney’s long-term future.

For the time being, the former Celtic defender will probably return to the Emirates Stadium in the summer, but one imagines another loan or a permanent move elsewhere is surely the most likely next step after that.

Kieran Tierney in action for Arsenal

Tierney transfer: Permanent exit surely on the cards for Arsenal left-back this summer

Tierney has had some good moments in an Arsenal shirt, but there’s now so much competition for a place in the team that it seems like an uphill struggle for him to get into Mikel Arteta’s first XI any time soon.

Then again, in a surprise twist, it could also be that Oleksandr Zinchenko’s future is in some doubt this summer, as per recent reports.