Brighton have signed midfielder Matt O’Riley from Scottish champions Celtic for a payment believed to be greater than £25m.
The London-born Denmark worldwide has signed a five-year contract till June 2029.
O’Riley, 23, scored 27 targets in 124 appearances for Celtic, successful six trophies together with three Scottish Premiership titles.
The deal is a Scottish switch report, surpassing the payment paid to Celtic by Al-Ittihad for Jota final summer time, and Kieran Tierney’s £25m switch to Arsenal in 2019.
It additionally represents a major revenue on the reported £1.5m Celtic signed O’Riley for from MK Dons in 2022.
Brighton supervisor Fabian Hurzeler mentioned O’Riley’s talents as a box-to-box midfielder “make him particular”.
“He is a good character, and has ambition to succeed and that is one thing which is essential for us,” Hurzeler added.
O’Riley turns into Brighton’s seventh signing of a busy summer time that features a £40m club-record deal for French ahead Georginio Rutter from Leeds and Netherlands midfielder Mats Wieffer becoming a member of from Feyenoord for about £25.5m.
Hurzeler’s facet are second within the Premier League after beating Everton and Manchester United of their opening two video games of the season.