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Brighton have signed midfielder Matt O’Riley from Scottish champions Celtic for a fee of £25m ($33mn approx, reports BBC Sport.
The London-born Denmark international has signed a five-year contract until June 2029.
O’Riley, 23, scored 27 goals in 124 appearances for Celtic, winning six trophies including three Scottish Premiership titles.
"I’m very, very happy,” he said in an interview on Brighton’s website.
"It got a little bit stressful over the last couple of weeks, if I’m being honest, because I think the talks were ongoing for a good couple of months but I’m just really happy to be here now.”
The deal matches the Scottish transfer record fee paid to Celtic by Al-Ittihad for Jota last summer, and Kieran Tierney’s £25m switch to Arsenal in 2019.
It also represents a significant profit on the reported £1.5m Celtic signed O’Riley for from MK Dons in 2022.
On leaving Celtic, O’Riley said: "It is hard. People probably don’t realise how big the club is until you get up there. It’s a real family club and one that I was made to feel welcome at very early on.
"It’s a very unique place just in terms of the passion the fans had, [it] is something I had never experienced before. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there.”