SPORTING DIGEST: FOOTBALL

SPORTING DIGEST: FOOTBALL

The Slovakian international midfielder Lubomir Moravcik is leaving MSV Duisburg for Celtic, the German Bundesliga club said yesterday. Celtic have agreed to pay around pounds 400,000 for Moravcik, who has hardly played for Duisburg since joining them this season on a free transfer from the French side Bastia, a club spokesman said. Moravcik, 33, said last week he had received a lucrative offer from a Japanese club and wanted to leave. The German club have already replaced him with the Czech midfielder Martin Frydek, who joined on loan from Bayer Leverkusen last week.