Celtic Academy star left at 15 and now he is better than Tierney

After a season of progress, Brendan Rodgers’ Celtics will work harder in the next round, and the summer has already begun to begin at Parkhead.

Ranked first at the top of the Premier League, with only 7 games to score 13 points, and in just nine seasons, the basketball team is about to earn a sixth treble.

Meanwhile, Rodgers led Bhoys into the Champions League knockout stage for the first time in 12 years, so they will be determined to get further into next year’s game and make the playoffs in late August.

So with a fan favorite ready to return to heaven, the Celtics could become stronger and would continue to be the best spot on Earth if they didn’t release a 15-year-old.

It happens that he is better now than the upcoming Kieran Tierney.

Latest news about Kieran Tierney’s return to Celtics

Back in January, Rodgers confirmed that Tierney would make a free transfer in the summer after Arsenal decided to “activate the option to extend the contract,” as reported by the sport’s David Ornstein.

The 27-year-old made 170 appearances at his childhood club before moving to the Gunners for £25m in 2019, still a United Club record sale, but his time in North London was seriously hurt.

So far this season, Scotland International has played only 261 minutes of club action, especially part of the temporary front against PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League last month.

He has also been at left back and will return to his post in Glasgow in the summer.

He will return to the border to find more regular football, but is the Celtics better left-back in their academy, a more decorative career than his fellow countrymen?

Celtics’ world-class academy talent is better now than Tierney

Back in 2009, Celtic released a 15-year-old Andrew Robertson because, according to Robertson himself, he was “too small”.

After that, Robertson joined the then-Scottish League Queen’s Park, making 43 appearances for Spiders, revealing to Darrell Currie that his major breakthrough was at the Rangers’ visit to Hampden Park because the game was “on TV.”

He was enough to catch the attention of Dundee United, who signed him in June 2013, appeared in Tangerine 44 times before moving to Hull City and then eventually Liverpool.

With the Reds, Robertson will raise his second Premier League title in the next few weeks, also won the Champions League, the FA Cup, two EFL Cups and some other honors, earning his 337th appearance at the club during his Wednesday victory at Merseyside Derby at Anfield.

Ben Webb on Twitter believes he is “the best left-back on the planet”, while Sports’ Andy Jones tagged him as “inclusive for team transformation under Jürgen Klopp” and Liverpool’s “most stable performance” in this successful era.

Robertson also had 82 blocks against Greece last month, with only Kenny Dalglish (102) and Jim Leighton (91) accumulating more, and no one occupied the tartan army on more occasions.

Scotland spent years trying to solve the puzzle of how to get Tierney and Robertson into the same starting lineup, but let’s compare the performance of the two in their respective Premier League giants.

As the table clearly outlined, Robertson has been better at both the club and the country so far, as Tierney missed the game due to injury statistics.

Back in 2022, Robertson revealed his desire to play for the Celtics one day, saying: “Every time I look at the Celtics, I think about it.

So now at the age of 31, we can see that the captain of Scotland one day was using green and white basketball beds, or did Tierney’s return and could not have been able to do this?