Kieran Tierney gets early POTY tip as returning Celtic star already forming 'unstoppable' partnership with Hoops pal
Kieran Tierney will lap up the player of the year awards at Celtic this season if he can keep himself fit.
That's according to former Scotland hero Pat Nevin, who is tipping the full back to form an 'unstoppable' partnership with Daizen Maeda down the Hoops' left.
Tierney sealed his sensational Parkhead return from Arsenal earlier this summer after previously penning a pre-contract agreement.
The 28-year-old has started in both of Celtic's victories in their two opening Premiership games but has yet to play for the full 90 minutes.
And if the Tartan Army favourite can avoid the injury problems that plagued his six-year stint with the Gunners, Nevin reckons Celtic will 'destroy' teams with the threat that the full back offers Brendan Rodgers going forward.
Ex Hibs and Chelsea star Nevin told football betting site BetVictor: "If Kieran Tierney stays fit, will he be the player of the season. I mean, he looked that for 45, 55 minutes at home, and he was fully fit for the first hour of the game.
"He was dynamite, down the left-hand side. was a left winger, he was a left back, left midfield.
"He had a brilliant understanding of last year's best player.
"With Daizen Maeda, if they play on the left-hand side together, in terms of Scottish football, they will be unstoppable if he stays fit. No one will stop them.
"They will put in cross after cross after cross, they will get into brilliant positions with great game awareness and intelligence.
"They've already set up a brilliant partnership on that left-hand side and I know what it's like if you're a wide player, the most important player on the pitch for the guy behind you.
"You have to have an understanding of it and you hope he's good, I played with some good ones over here, Stevie Clark being one of them. When you have that, you can destroy teams.
"You absolutely destroy teams. They will do that.
"If Kieran stays fit, it's not a matter of if he could be the player of the year, it's that he will be."
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