{"id":5694,"date":"2026-01-12T12:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:11:54","slug":"stephen-welsh-celtic-recall-defender-from-motherwell-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5694","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Welsh: Celtic recall defender from Motherwell loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<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\">Welsh 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 defeated 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<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celtic have recalled defender Stephen Welsh from his loan at Motherwell. Welsh, 25, has made 17 appearances since joining Well in September, helping Jens Berthel Askou&#8217;s side record nine clean sheets. Welsh was previously loaned out by Celtic to Greenock Morton and Belgian side Mechelen. The defending Scottish Premiership champions, who defeated Dundee United 4-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}