FORMER Wanderers striker Jon Dadi Bodvarsson is rumoured to be making a League One comeback with promotion rivals Wrexham.

The Icelandic international has been searching for a new club since being released by Bolton in the summer.

Bodvarsson, 32, returned home to train with third-tier club Selfoss in August to keep himself fit, but had been hoping to stay in the North West, where his young family is still based.

Wrexham are on the lookout for attacking options after losing Jack Marriott to a broken leg and Steven Fletcher to a knee injury in recent weeks.

The Welsh club, managed by former Bolton chief Phil Parkinson, has made a strong start to the season and currently sit second, looking to rise from non-league football to the Championship in three seasons.

Bodvarsson proved a popular signing at Wanderers when he arrived from Millwall in January 2022, scoring 25 times in 94 games.

His time at the Toughsheet Stadium was hampered by injuries, however, which had been rare occurrences for the striker at his previous clubs in England, Germany, Norway and Iceland.

Speaking to The Bolton News in the summer, Bodvarsson said he was not in a rush to find a new club and willing to wait for the right offer to come along.

“We are open for everything, as a family,” he said. “We would like to stay in England, we are comfortable here and used to the environment. My daughter is getting older and is five years old now.

“It is crazy with kids how it changes your perspective on things. I am not the young player climbing up the ladder, it is now more important location-wise.

“We have lived abroad before, so that is not out of the question as well.

“Basically, it is a case of seeing what happens. I haven’t heard from my agent yet but he’ll come to me with whatever he has in his hands and we will go from there.

“England would be nice to continue because I know the environment really well.

“You know that it is family first now and that as my daughter, who has just been in reception, gets that bit older that she will feel it a little more moving away.

“I am relaxed about it all, though, whatever happens will happen, and something will pop up eventually. I am taking a bit of a breather at the moment and enjoying some time with family.

“I’m staying fit, obviously, which is a very boring thing to do, go out and jogging, I just want to play football. But it’ll be fine in the end.”