Everton not for Bothroyd

EVERTON manager David Moyes is not interested in ex-Cardiff City striker who has been linked with the Club in the press. The Daily Mirror even had the player as agreeing terms with the Premiership Club, but its turn out to be a non-rumour.

However, another day and another rumour this time involving the player and SPL team Celtic, which is becoming a port of call for out of contract Cardiff players. Press reports have him in Glasgow today having a medical, being taken a tour around Celtic Park and being shown the clubs training facilities at Lennoxtown. If he was to make that journey and sign he would have some company with Cardiff defender Adam Matthews who also taken the Scottish pound.

I would be disappointed if Bothroyd were to sign for Celtic after saying he wanted to play a higher level of football in the Premier League. It would have been better to have signed a new contract with Cardiff than go North of the border, but he will be on better money with them. Ex-Cardiff City player Joe Ledley who moved to Celtic at the end of the 2009/10 season when he was out of contract has been bestowing the virtues of Celtic.

Bothroyd said recently,

"Everyone wants to play in the Premiership, that's the best league, it's the highest level, you want to play against the best players in the world week in, week out,"

(May 2010)

This is the end of the story somehow I doubt it.