Mislav Orsic: Southampton sign Croatia winger from Dinamo Zagreb

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Southampton person signed Croatia winger Mislav Orsic from Dinamo Zagreb connected a two-and-a-half-year contract.

The 30-year-old scored 91 goals successful 216 games for the Croatian side, and arrives for a reported £8m fee.

He helped Croatia to a third-place decorativeness successful the 2022 World Cup, scoring the winning extremity against Morocco.

Southampton manager Nathan Jones said: "Mislav is simply a important summation to our squad and I'm delighted we person been capable to get him successful truthful quickly."

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Jones added: "He's a superior attacking menace and I'm definite anyone who has followed his advancement oregon saw what helium achieved astatine the World Cup volition realise the endowment helium has. We're excited to person him here."

Orsic leaves Dinamo Zagreb arsenic their starring European scorer of each time, with 28 goals successful the Champions League and Europa League.

On joining Saints, Orisic said: "I consciousness precise blessed to beryllium here. I deliberation it's a imagination for each shot subordinate to travel to play successful the Premier League and I'm here, I'm ready, I'm motivated and I anticipation that I volition assistance the squad to execute their goals.

"When I travel present to the campy it's amazing, and I'm definite I volition truly bask my clip here. Now it's a small spot of a hard concern for the club, but I deliberation we request to enactment together. We person lone 1 program - everybody to enactment successful the Premier League.

"We request to enactment hard each time and I anticipation that astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth we volition beryllium happy."

Southampton are bottommost of the Premier League with conscionable 1 triumph successful their past 13 league games.

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