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Transfers: Kieran Tierney joins Real Sociedad on loan

Kieran Tierney
Kieran Tierney

Real Sociedad have signed Arsenal left-back Kieran Tierney on a season-long loan.

The 26-year-old Scotland international joined Arsenal from Celtic in 2019 and played more than 120 games for the club. He made 27 Premier League appearances last season but started only six times as Arsenal finished runners-up to Manchester City.

Tierney came on as a substitute in Arsenal's Community Shield win over City earlier this month but was left out of the squad for their three league games this season.

Real Sociedad, who have three points from three LaLiga games so far, host Granada on Saturday.

Marco Silva has revealed Timothy Castagne's transfer to Fulham from Leicester is "really close" to being completed.

A fee understood to be in the region of £15m [€17.5m] is close to being agreed after Silva's recent calls for transfers ahead of the 1 September deadline, following the departure of star striker Aleksandar Mitrovic earlier this month.

"We have to do our maximum because we are really short and light in numbers and we have to try everything," Silva said.

"It's not 100% done but it's almost done [Castagne to Fulham] and when this happens I can speak about him. He was one of my first targets since the beginning and when we started to plan for this season.

"We have Kenny [Tete] and [Antonee] Robinson who we are really happy with but we need a right-back and we can get one with the quality of Timothy, with his experience and versatility at left-back also.

"He's a player who will give us very good solutions in terms of position, he's a very good player who I believe will be a great addition for us.

"The feedback I have got is that things are on the right track and either today or tomorrow we will have news about him and he is really close to being our player, I am really pleased."

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