Hamilton defender Mihai Popescu is open to returning to Accies subsequent season as soon as he ends his mortgage spell from Hearts.
The Romanian centre-back has been an everyday for head coach Stuart Taylor this season and is a well-liked determine amongst followers, however his spell in South Lanarkshire is approaching its finish because the Championship marketing campaign enters the house straight.
Accies are eighth after a 2-2 draw with Dunfermline final weekend and so they journey to Partick Thistle on Saturday.
Popescu’s contract at Hearts runs out in the summertime following his mortgage expiry, and having frolicked in Scottish soccer with Hamilton, Hearts and St Mirren, he’s eager for he and his household to stay right here.
That place could possibly be Accies, however soccer could be unpredictable, in accordance with Popescu.
He defined: “For the second, I haven’t spoken with anybody, so I'm targeted on the job I've to do right here at Hamilton. Hopefully one thing will come alongside on the finish of the season.
“We'll see what occurs as I might like to proceed to play in Scotland, whether or not that’s at Hearts, Hamilton or one other workforce within the nation.
“I'm settled right here. That’s why I made a decision to come back again right here for a second time once I had the supply from Hearts. I do know Scottish soccer and what it's like. I just like the soccer right here and the environment.
“We all know what soccer is like. It's essential take the current, play the video games and hope for one thing. We'll see.”
Popescu has needed to make some changes to his sport as penalties are given in opposition to his facet, the newest being an Ellis Brown sort out on Josh Edwards leading to a Dunfermline penalty final weekend.
Head coach Taylor disagrees with the choice however for Popescu as a defender, he takes further steps to ensure he isn’t the subsequent particular person to provide one away. However inconsistency is irritating.
Popescu added: “It’s laborious to defend within the field if a striker or different participant is available in. It will likely be 50-50 that they get a penalty if you happen to make a sort out or block a shot.
“Generally you might want to make contact together with your man and a few of them will search for the penalty.
“It occurs all over the place. If that occurs contained in the field, the ref by no means whistles, so it's completely totally different when it comes to defending inside and out of doors the field. More often than not we complain to the referee about that (consistency).
“However these are the foundations.”
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