{"id":568755,"date":"2020-10-05T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=568755"},"modified":"2021-03-17T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:05:12","slug":"jack-aitchison-celtic-forward-crosses-border-for-championship-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/05\/jack-aitchison-celtic-forward-crosses-border-for-championship-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Aitchison: Celtic Forward Crosses Border for Championship Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/category\/championship\/\" target=\"_self\">Championship<\/a> club<a href=\"\/tag\/barnsley\/\" target=\"_self\"> Barnsley<\/a> have signed Jack Aitchison from Scottish Premiership side <a href=\"\/tag\/celtic\/\" target=\"_self\">Celtic<\/a> on a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<h2>Celtic Forward Crosses Border for Championship Side<\/h2>\n<h3>Limited Chances in Scotland Leads to Barnsley Move<\/h3>\n<p>Celtic forward Jack <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/cd3110c7\/Jack-Aitchison?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aitchison<\/a> has joined Barnsley on a three-year deal.\u00a0The 20-year-old departs Celtic Park having made just three appearances, scoring once, for the Premiership title-holders.<\/p>\n<p>Aitchison scored on his Celtic debut, aged just 16-years-old, in a 7-0 win over Motherwell four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Chances came at a premium in Scotland, however, with loan spells to Alloa Athletic and <a href=\"\/tag\/forest-green-rovers\/\" target=\"_self\">Forest Green Rovers<\/a> proving more successful.<\/p>\n<p>He spent most of last season on-loan in<a href=\"\/category\/league12\" target=\"_self\"> League Two<\/a> with Forest Green Rovers.<\/p>\n<p>During his time in the fourth tier, he contributed six goals and five assists in 30 appearances for FGR.<\/p>\n<p>Another loan move to League Two will follow suit imminently for the forward, with the option to be recalled in January.<\/p>\n<p>More commonly deployed as a central forward, Aitchison can also be used as a right-winger.<\/p>\n<p>After signing terms with the Tykes, Aitchison said: &#8220;I was excited to get down here and get the deal done. As soon as I knew there was a chance of coming to Barnsley, I didn&#8217;t have to think twice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a good club where I know I&#8217;ll be able to improve and develop my game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dane Murphy, Chief Executive Officer, added: &#8220;Jack is a real talent and we\u2019re delighted to have secured his services. He comes with real pedigree, having progressed through the Celtic academy set-up and is hungry to prove himself in England.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no doubt that Jack will play a significant role at Oakwell in the near future, but right now it is vital for his continued development that he plays regular football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jack will spend a period of time in League Two, but we will monitor his progress closely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"zXM_YQPuSP1vD79-yMm8TQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1195194051\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'zXM_YQPuSP1vD79-yMm8TQ',sig:'3GUPqE9Uh3OV1DFz5n3BwG6NtXu9Z9-VE5Op4lKl124=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1195194051',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Championship club Barnsley have signed Jack Aitchison from Scottish Premiership side Celtic on a three-year deal. Celtic Forward Crosses Border for Championship Side Limited Chances in Scotland Leads to Barnsley Move Celtic forward Jack Aitchison has joined Barnsley on a three-year deal.\u00a0The 20-year-old departs Celtic Park having made just three appearances, scoring once, for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":568756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8428,33,8427,28],"tags":[1721,375,197,168,6820,136],"class_list":["post-568755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-celtic","category-championship","category-scottish-premiership","category-transfers","tag-barnsley","tag-celtic","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-jack-aitchison","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}