Mislav Orsic’s agent cannot rule out a summer move away from Southampton just two months after joining the Premier League strugglers, speaking to Sportske Novosti.
As Branco Hucika points out, Orsic hasn’t exactly had luck on his side on the South Coast.
His January arrival coincided with that run of three successive wins in all competitions, including a shock EFL Cup triumph over Manchester City. And ‘if it ain’t broke’, as they say, there is nothing to be fixed.
Mislav Orsic already facing uncertain Southampton future
“When he arrived, he was told that they were counting on him seriously. That they needed him. If anything was controversial, he wouldn’t have gone there,” explains Hucika, Orsic’s representative.
“Jones told him he needed him. But then they won three games, they just got going and that disrupted that plan. He did not want to change the team.
“Mislav did not play in the right way, and when the bad results came, they bought two more players (Kamaldeen Sulemana and Paul Onuachu) who are playing now. In my opinion, it is a set of circumstances. Nothing else.”
Orsic, an £8 million acquisition from Dinamo Zagreb, has now been left out of the matchday squad for all of Southampton’s last five Premier League games, including Saturday’s morale-boosting 1-0 triumph over Leicester City.
His most recent appearance came in the humiliating FA Cup defeat to fourth-tier Grimsby Town; hardly the boost Orsic’s reputation needed on the South Coast.
And, according to Hucika, it is not out of the question that Orsic’s Southampton career will be over after just a few months on the banks of the Solent.
‘A new club on the table’
“Mislav does not deserve what is happening to him. The situation is definitely not ideal. However, he did not falter. Moreover, he works as hard as he can. He is motivated to pull it off,” the agent adds.
“We expect that, during the rest of the season, he will get a chance in the Premier League. He should. Of course he should!
“All options will be open. We will see what happens in the next two and a half months. Staying, if he plays, and a new club are on the table.”
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