Andrew Waterworth joined Hamilton Academicals in January

Derry City are the latest club to be linked with Hamilton Academicals striker Andrew Waterworth.

The former Lisburn Distillery striker is being tipped to return home and he is understood to have held talks with Derry manager Stephen Kenny.

Linfield and Glentoran have already made approaches for the Northern Ireland Under-21 striker.

He wouldn't be able to sign a full transfer to Derry until January but he could secure a loan move until then.

Last weekend, Waterworth met Glens officials on Saturday morning and then attended Linfield's abandoned match against Cliftonville.

"We have tracked Andrew for some time," said Linfield manager David Jeffrey.

"Any player that comes here has got to want to come here. If Andrew wants to be here, then he will be."

Waterworth, from Crossgar, moved to Hamilton in January and helped them gain promotion to the Scottish Premier League.

But the 22-year-old was not involved in the team's opening league wins over Dundee United and Inverness Caley Thistle.

Lisburn Distillery are keen to get Waterworth back to New Grosvenor but boss Paul Kirk knows they would probably lose out to the bigger Belfast clubs and Derry if it came down to a bidding war.

Former Northern Ireland Under-21 star Waterworth has two years remaining on his contract at Hamilton.

Before joining Distillery he had spells with Glentoran and Ards.

"Jeffrey added: "We had submitted a bid but that was not accepted by Hamilton because they wanted to keep him at that time.

"Then we were told that Andrew could became free."