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Josh Challies

Arsenal and Mikel Arteta sent Kieran Tierney message amid talk of Brendan Rodgers reunion

Arsenal legend Ray Parlour has urged Mikel Arteta to snub any advances from Leicester City for full-back Kieran Tierney.

The Scotland international is being linked with a reunion with Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers just 12 months after arriving at the Emirates Stadium, with the Foxes braced for the potential departure of Ben Chilwell to Chelsea.

However, Parlour insists that Arsenal cannot allow the 22-year-old to leave and should hand the former Celtic man opportunities when football restarts.

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"He'd be going to play Champions League football at Leicester next season if he did move but I'd be amazed if Arsenal let him go," he told talkSPORT.

"It would have to be a big fee. I can't see that [£25m], I think they brought him for the same sort of money.

"I know he's had his injuries but once he's fit again, once he gets a few games, what I've seen of him so far when he's played, he looks like a very exciting player.

"His age as well will come into it, he's only a young lad and he's going to get a few injuries here and there but I would definitely keep him, I'd give him a run in the team once he's fit and have a look at him properly.

"If Brendan Rodgers has a little chink in his armour to say that Arsenal could think about letting him go, then who knows what could happen?

"Football doesn't surprise you anymore."

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