The 20-year-old defender has penned a deal at Celtic Park until the end of the season to offer cover at centre-back. Martin O’Neill<\/a> for reinforcements at the heart of his defence with Cameron Carter-Vickers out for the season.<\/p>\n Auston Trusty was also suspended for the weekend win against Falkirk, with the lack of depth leading to Stephen Welsh<\/a> being recalled from his loan switch at Motherwell. Arthur is yet to feature in the Premier League for Keith Andrews’ team, made his Bees debut in a Carabao Cup win over Aston Villa earlier this season.<\/p>\n He becomes the second deadline day signing by the Hoops following SC Freiburg frontman Junior Adamu.<\/a> Joel Mvuka is still expected to arrive on loan from Lorient.<\/p>\n Benjamin Arthur of Brentford<\/p>\n Speaking to the club website, Arthur said: \u201cI am really honoured and happy to be joining Celtic. It is one of the world\u2019s biggest clubs, so it\u2019s a really exciting move for me.<\/p>\n “I know we have a quality squad with guys who have won so much already, and I can\u2019t wait to join them and hopefully play my part in bringing more success to the club and to our fans. We have a lot of challenges ahead and I am ready for them and ready to do all I can to help the club achieve all it can.\u201d<\/p>\n Boss O’Neill said: “I’m really happy that we have brought Benjamin to the club, and I think he can be a very important addition to our squad during the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n “He is an excellent player, with real attributes, good height, strength and speed and I know he can only help and improve the squad across the number of games which we will face over the next few months.\u201d<\/p>\n It’s a fast moving Deadline Day and you can follow it all, including our countdown to the window closing, with our LIVE BLOG<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tune in to Hotline Live<\/a> every Sunday to Thursday and have your say on the biggest issues in Scottish football and listen to Record Sport’s newest podcast, Game On<\/a>, every Friday for your sporting fix, all in bitesize chunks.<\/strong><\/p>\n You can get all the news you need on our dedicated Rangers<\/a> and Celtic<\/a> pages, and sign up to our newsletters<\/a> to make sure you never miss a beat throughout the season. We’re also on WhatsApp where we bring all the latest breaking news and transfer gossip directly to your phone. Join our Rangers community here<\/a> and our Celtic community here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The centre-back has arrived in Glasgow’s East End on deadline day from the Premier League side 23:20, 02…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4100],"tags":[46674,2628,7184,162,94,218810,218811,79673,78418,1638,79,201947,16,15],"class_list":["post-738748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-cameron-carter-vickers","tag-celtic-fc","tag-celtic-transfer-news","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football","tag-joel-mvuka","tag-junior-adamu","tag-martin-oneill","tag-motherwell-fc","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-sports","tag-stephen-welsh","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116004772116165498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738748","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=738748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0_GettyImages-2226232984.jpg\")
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