Conway full of praise for Flood

Flood's future has dominated the build-up to Wednesday's Co-operative Insurance Cup semi-final between the teams after Celtic approached Cardiff over their on-loan player's future.Conway thought Flood would move on to bigger things after his initial 12-month loan spell at Tannadice, so he sees any extra time the 23-year-old spends on Tayside as a bonus."To be honest, I didn't expect him to still be here after last season," Conway said."He had a great season and he stayed on for another year."It's just great that he's here. He's a great player and he's great to have around, so hopefully we can keep him."Flood has admitted joining Celtic would be a "dream move" and Cardiff manager Dave Jones claimed on Tuesday that Parkhead counterpart Gordon Strachan had made an approach over the player, whose City contract expires in the summer."Celtic thought Willo was Dundee United's player, so they approached them first," Jones said."Now Gordon has come to us, but no bid has been made."United manager Craig Levein was reluctant to speak about Flood's future on the eve of their Hampden showdown but he insisted the issue had not affected their preparations.And Conway was adamant that the story would not derail their bid for silverware."If players are playing well then they are going to get linked with moves, and he is not really our player as well," the winger added."So you have to just accept that. It's not affected anybody. Willo has played at massive teams like Man City and he is used to that."As far as he knows, he is playing for Dundee United."He has played for the last two years and he has never showed that anything has bothered him."There will be no change and if anything it will spur him on to show them how good a player he is."Levein added: "As far as I'm concerned, he is in the team and he's playing."  

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