The Derby County midfielder moved to Bradford City on loan last week.
The loaned-out Derby County midfielder, Jacob Butterfield, would be open to a permanent transfer to Bradford City.
Butterfield, who moved to Bradford on loan last week, is out of contract at Derby this summer.
However, speaking to BBC West Yorkshire Sport on Wednesday, the 28-year-old insisted that his focus, for now, is keeping the Bantams up.
“I’m out of contract but my main focus at this point is this season,” he said. “Getting in the team, helping the team win some games and stay in the division. That’s my full focus at the minute. But I’m out of contract so it’s definitely something I would look at.”
Butterfield was farmed out to Sheffield Wednesday for the bulk of last season, and failed to break into Derby’s first-team plans upon his return to Pride Park.
Discussing his decision to leave the Rams, the Bradford-born player said: “It was natural. That was my instinct that I needed to go out and play football and it’s just not in my nature to sit there and not play, and not sort of be upset about that.
“I wanted to play football and I wanted to get out. I had different options, and things that we were working on that didn’t materialise. Coming to the end of the window, Bradford became an option and I jumped at the chance.”
But despite having failed to feature at all under Frank Lampard’s management, Butterfield has no hard feelings towards the recently-appointed Derby boss.
“I did speak to him,” explained the new Bradford recruit. “Derby’s a big club, they’ve got a lot of good players and they’ve spent a lot of money. They’re desperate to get in the Premier League and they’ve been close for a number of years.
“He’s come in. He’s a big name. He’s doing a good job. And, like any manager, he wanted to do his own thing a little bit. He wanted players that he wanted to bring into the club and it was nothing personal really. I just fell out of favour there.”
Derby paid close to £5 million to sign Butterfield from Huddersfield Town four years ago [Transfermarkt].
The Barnsley academy product has played 90 times for the Rams, and scored or made 14 goals.
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