{"id":628166,"date":"2026-06-08T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628166\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:30:10","slug":"stephen-welsh-swansea-city-set-to-sign-celtic-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628166\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Welsh: Swansea City set to sign Celtic defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic defender Stephen Welsh is poised to become Swansea City&#8217;s first signing of the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh, 26, came through the youth ranks at Celtic and has made 70 appearances for the Glasgow giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He spent the majority of the 2025-26 season on loan at Motherwell, making 31 appearances for Celtic&#8217;s Scottish Premiership rivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the previous campaign he had a loan stint at Belgian side Mechelen, while he also had a temporary spell with Morton in the early stages of his senior career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swansea head coach Vitor Matos is keen to strengthen his central defensive options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Cabango and Cameron Burgess were mainstays at the heart of the Swansea rearguard last season, with Ricardo Santos a fringe figure and Kaelan Casey not replaced after his season-long loan from West Ham was cut short in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic defender Stephen Welsh is poised to become Swansea City&#8217;s first signing of the summer. Welsh, 26, came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628166","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=628166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}