Born on August 12, 1998 in the USA, Auston Trusty is a defender for Celtic. Standing at a solid 6ft 3in (1.91m) tall and weighing in at 12st 1lb (77kg), the young American wears the number 6 jersey and primarily operates as a central defender. According to Transfermarkt, his going rate in the market is a tidy £6m. His contract with Celtic, with a decent stretch left at four years and eleven months, is set to expire on June 30, 2029. In the current 2024 - 2025 season, he has managed to get his boots on the pitch once.
Trusty’s career started in 2016 when he joined Philadelphia Union in the MLS in the USA as a trainee. His debut season in 2018 saw him make 34 first team appearances and find the back of the net once. His 2019 season with Philadelphia Union resulted in 22 first team appearances and another goal. Then success or perhaps a whiff of it took him from Philadelphia Union to Colorado Rapids, still within the MLS, in November of the same year, the price tag being anyone’s guess.
By 2020, Trusty had made eight first team appearances at Colorado Rapids. He upped his tally to 33 in 2021, again scoring a goal. That dropped to 16 appearances in 2022. Then the air tickets started piling up. In January 2022 he went to Arsenal in the Premier League on a £1.6m transfer. By February, he was back at Colorado Rapids on loan. Eight appearances later, he had made 33 first team appearances and scored another goal.
In July 2022, his stay at Arsenal resulted in a loan move to Birmingham City in League One in England. His season with the Blues saw him muster 44 first team appearances and net himself four goals. The turnaround came in August 2023, when Trusty swapped his Arsenal shirt for a Sheffield United one, at a transfer fee of a round £5m. The 2023-2024 season saw him make 32 first team appearances. He managed a single appearance for Sheffield United in the ongoing 2024-2025 season, before Celtic opened their wallet and £6m swapped hands in August 2024.
As for his Celtic career in the current 2024 - 2025 season, Trusty yet waits for his maiden first team appearance in a league match.
