{"id":692604,"date":"2026-01-13T06:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692604\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T06:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:04:23","slug":"stephen-welsh-celtic-recall-defender-from-motherwell-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692604\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Welsh: Celtic recall defender from Motherwell loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Celtic have recalled defender Stephen Welsh from his loan at Motherwell.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh, 25, has made 17 appearances since joining Well in September, helping Jens Berthel Askou&#8217;s side record nine clean sheets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was previously loaned out by Celtic to Greenock Morton and Belgian side Mechelen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defending Scottish Premiership champions, who beat Dundee United 4-0 on Saturday, signed right-back Julian Araujo at the start of the January transfer window and Welsh bolsters Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s central defensive options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liam Scales and Auston Trusty partnered each other at the heart of Celtic&#8217;s defence against United while United States centre-back Cameron Carter-Vickers is recovering from long-term injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic have recalled defender Stephen Welsh from his loan at Motherwell. Welsh, 25, has made 17 appearances since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-692604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115886284020205245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}