But with Andy Johnson, Bobby Zamora, Erik Nevland and David Elm ahead of him in the pecking order at the Premier League club, he has opted to move to Glasgow for regular football with a manager he knows well.
This is what Lyndon Johnson referred to as the Bobby problem, the fear that Bobby Kennedy, who was arguably of equal national stature to speak for what the meaning of the faith was, what liberal orthodoxy meant, that Kennedy might break with Johnson.