Since then, he’s scored 51 league goals in 87 games for Hearts, albeit his form has dipped this season. He has only scored three goals for the Jambos this season, across all competitions. Shankland’s Hearts’ future has been the subject of much discussion for quite some time. Links to Rangers. He just didn’t seem to go away, despite the fact that a number of English clubs were rumoured to be interested in him during recent transfer windows. Shankland’s contract expires at the conclusion of this season, and it appears that he will be leaving Tynecastle. The striker rejected TWO contract offers from the club just under a year ago.

Shankland said in November that talks on a new deal had stalled and that he was planning to walk on. He stated, “Regarding the contract, there has been no interaction. “I believe that as things are, both the club and I are content with our current situation. “We’ll move forward with the conversations and see how things go over the following few months. “My contract is coming to an end right now. I won’t have one at Hearts, so you can go on. “That is our current status with the club. “There is no contract on the table.” We were pleased to leave that agreement at that point. We both accepted the situation and went on.

More importantly, everyone has been focused on trying to make things better for us on the pitch. “Once that’s done, I imagine we can worry about things off it.”

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