{"id":365766,"date":"2026-01-12T07:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365766\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:29:11","slug":"celtic-trigger-option-to-cut-short-season-long-loan-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365766\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic trigger option to cut short season-long loan deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The centre-back, 25, had been expected to remain at Fir Park for the rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticway.co.uk\/news\/24288320.scottish-premiership-profile---everything-need-know\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scottish Premiership<\/a> season, but will now return to Celtic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  First reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/live-blog\/11095\/12476234\/transfer-centre-live-football-transfer-news-updates-and-rumours?postid=10835750&amp;ref=ed_direct#liveblog-body\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sky Sports,<\/a> Celtic took up the option to cut short the deal in January with Martin O&#8217;Neill wanting more cover at centre-back.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Parkhead club were thought to have had until January 14 to decide on whether they would recall Welsh.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The report states Celtic had been willing to listen to offers for Welsh but now wish to keep hold of the player as part of their squad.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It&#8217;s claimed Celtic had received an enquiry from a Scottish Premiership side on Friday for Welsh.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Meanwhile, Celtic have registered an interest in Hibernian striker Kieron Bowie.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Parkhead club wishes to be kept in the loop over any transfer activity surrounding the Scotland internationalist.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Rangers are also interested in the striker, with Hibs valuing the player at \u00a36.5m.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Celtic saw a possible move for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticway.co.uk\/topics\/kyogo-furuhashi\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyogo Furuhashi<\/a> thwarted last week with the forward wishing to remain at Birmingham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As it stands, O&#8217;Neill only has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticway.co.uk\/topics\/johnny-kenny\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Johnny Kenny<\/a> as a fit option as an out-and-out striker, albeit with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celticway.co.uk\/topics\/daizen-maeda\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daizen Maeda<\/a> capable of playing in the position.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Callum Osmand and Kelechi Iheanacho are both injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The centre-back, 25, had been expected to remain at Fir Park for the rest of the Scottish Premiership&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-365766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}