'Settled' - Crawley Town favourite looking forward to new season after hectic few years

After his phenomenal goal-scoring feats in the promotion-winning season, the 30-year-old moved to Burton Albion, where he had a loan spell at MK Dons.

The following summer AFC Wimbledon snapped him up before he became one of 13 new signings in the January Transfer window for Reds, reuniting him with boss Scott Lindsey.

The former Grimsby man scored one goal in 15 appearances before picking up a season-ending injury against Gillingham - Colin Kazim-Richards’ first game in charge.

But now Orsi, who has recovered from that injury, is raring to go.

“For me personally, I think it's the first time I've come back knowing I was going to be at a club moving forward, so being settled was nice,” he said. “I didn't have to go into new surroundings, new areas and stuff like that.”

Orsi has seen and been part of lots of changes in varying transfer windows at the Broadfield Stadium and he believes there is no reason why this new group of players can’t achieve something special.

“ I was here the first time when we had loads of new signings, obviously under Scott, and that season we went on a promotion, so I don't see why, again, it couldn't happen with a new group.

“It just then comes down to the boys gelling, the coaches, the staff, everyone kind of getting on the same page as quickly as possible and kicking on from that.”

Reds have made eight new signings so far this summer with, again, a mixture of youngsters and experience.

Orsi said: “It's a lot of young boys again, a lot of potential and we've got a few older boys obviously who've played, got a bit of league experience as well. But I think once we start playing games, starting to get to know each other a bit better, I think that's when the chemistry and where we're going to play starts to take shape.”

Two of the new signings are strikers with Gianmarco Di Biase joining from Juventus and Pemi Aderoju on loan from Peterborough United.

Orsi, who is from Italian descent, said: “Gianmarco being Italian, I was going to say I speak Italian to him, but I don't. But I have spent the last couple of days with him and he’s a really funny boy, really good lad and obviously on the pitch, both of them again, young, want to learn, want to get better.

“So it's always good to have competition in the building because I think it pushes everyone's standards up.”

And on pre-season training, Orsi said: “I’m still coming off the back end of last year with the injury and stuff, so it’s just kind of getting eased back into it a bit now, but it's nice to be back out on the grass and back to the boys playing a bit of football, so it's been a good first couple of weeks or so.”