*bring bring* 'Hello Celtic, this is Arsenal. We would like to buy Kieran Tierney.' 'Hello Arsenal, this is Celtic. We would like £25m to consider the sale of our excellent left-back.' 'We bid £15m!' 'No.' 'Ok. We can see you are tough negotiators.' 'We certainly are.' '£15,000,001!' 'No.' '£15,000,002!' 'No.' '£15,000,003!' 'No.' '£15,000,004!' *Receiver being placed back noise* 'Hello? Hello? There must be a problem with the BT phone lines up there in the land of the Scotch folk. We will continue this negotiation in a few weeks time with a much improved offer of … £15,000,005!' — That is how the old Arsenal would have carried out negotiations for Kieran Tierney....
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