Pirates star confident on getting his break after failed overseas move

Despite failing to land an overseas deal during the current campaign, Orlando Pirates talisman Thembinkosi Lorch has admitted of the pain he has endured since then.

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Lorch, 26, was expected to move abroad for pastures green after setting the 2018/19 Absa Premiership campaign alight, where he finished as the club’s leading top goalscorer as well as scooping the 2018/19 PSL Footballer of the Season and Players’ Player of the Season accolades.

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Thembinkosi Lorch and Rulani Mokwena. (Image: The South African)

Fast forward a season later, the speedy winger still finds himself stuck in Mzansi, and has not been shy to let it off his chest on how the failed move to leave South African shores has affected him.

“I think I’ve done my thing in Mzansi. I’ve won the player of the season, I went to AFCON, and even there I played well,” Lorch was quoted according to Sport24.com.

“But like I said before, I’m still hurt for not going overseas. The likes of Percy Tau left after becoming player of the season, a lot of players left… so I expected the same thing to happen to me.

“Even now I still feel the pain you know. Ja, I won’t hide it. You know that it affected my form big-time, because I saw myself playing overseas this season, and I was prepared to go and play overseas.

“It’s my dream to play overseas, but I still believe my dream will come true. It’s God who knows. I must just not give up. So I wish a right offer comes,” he said.

This season, Lorch has registered just a single league goal all season, and says he also approached the club’s management regarding a move abroad in order to fulfill his dream.

“Ja I did that, I talked to them. So they suggested we wait for a right offer. So I don’t know what kind of an offer is a right offer, but it did affect me big-time.

“Even now I still feel this pain in my heart you see, and I don’t think it’s something that is going to end soon.

“For now it still hurts you see, especially when I see the likes of [Marshall] Munetsi playing overseas [for Reims]. It really pains me,” Lorch added.

The Bafana Bafana international has since joined top football agent Jazzman Mahlakgane’s stable alongside the likes of Siphiwe Tshabalala, Happy Jele, Themba Zwane and Bruce Bvuma, as he continues to seek a move to play in Europe.