Ex-Ipswich Town star Sam Morsy is open to EFL return - Wrexham & Southampton should eye swoop | OneFootball

Former Ipswich captain Sam Morsy's time in the Middle East has been curtailed after three games. Here are two clubs who could do with his experience.

Former Ipswich Town captain Sam Morsy could be set for a swift return to England after his career move to Kuwait failed after just three games - and two clubs in particular could do with his experience.

After leaving Ipswich Town in the summer, Sam Morsy was embarking on a new chapter of his playing career after signing for Kuwait SC. This move, however, has fallen completely flat.

Morsy made just three league appearances for his new club - he was sent off after half an hour of his final appearance for them - and is now returning to England after his contract there was cancelled.

He is not permitted to play for anybody until the January transfer window, but there should still be considerable interest in a player of his calibre, having been a vital part of the Ipswich team that won two successive promotions. So with all of that in mind, here are two clubs who should be eyeing him to get him in their squads in time for the new year.

2 Wrexham

Tenacious and dogged in the middle of the park, Morsy fits the profile for one of the division's joint-second leakiest defence.

Wrexham fans have seen 25 goals scored and conceded in their opening seven matches of the season - the joint-highest in the division, along with Coventry City and Hull - and only two teams have scored more goals than the twelve that they have, so it might be that a little more defensive discipline might serve them well at the back of their midfield.

Having a technically gifted player with a lot of Championship experience could benefit Wrexham.

They brought Ben Sheaf in from Coventry City at the end of the last summer transfer window for this role, but Morsy's figures during his last Championship season were more impressive than Sheaf's at Coventry last season, and plugging those gaps at the back should be at the top of Phil Parkinson's priority list of Wrexham are to come good on their owners' ambitions and keep pushing towards the Premier League.

1 Southampton

Still without a win since the opening weekend of the season and now just a point above the relegation places, Southampton are slipping into trouble and Will Still's job could soon be in danger unless things start to improve.

Conceding goals has been an issue for the Saints, who've only kept one clean sheet all season, in their recent goalless draw against Portsmouth. With three forwards supporting a loan striker, it does look a little as though too much of their midfield is geared towards attacking positions.

Still favours a possession-based philosophy with an emphasis on controlling the tempo in the middle of the park and Morsy was excellent at helping Ipswich dictate games at the heart of Kieran McKenna's midfield.

Morsy's heat map shows a player who is defensively-minded, but still not afraid to get forward and support attacking players. His considerable experience could also be useful behind the scenes, at a club where the expectation very much remains to be pushing for a quick return to the Premier League.

Players who've been there and done it all before can have a positive influence on others, and Southampton have looked increasingly collectively tetchy in recent games.

At a club where the pressure this season was intense before a ball was even kicked and is still growing ever-greater with every failure to pick up three points, such an experienced, technically-gifted player as Morsy could be just what Still needs, if he's still there by the new year.