Fee revealed as Hearts reject late Rangers bid for Lawrence Shankland | OneFootball

New reports claim Rangers did indeed make a genuine move for Hearts striker Lawrence Shankland, but refused to entertain Gorgie greed for the hitman with an asking price of £3.5M.

The bigger twist is that other sides (Hull and Preston among them, allegedly) were also in with late bids for Shankland, 28, but it was deemed by all suitors that with 12 months to go on his deal, £3.5M for him was OTT and too expensive.

This has turned out very badly for Hearts indeed. They will now make nothing from Shankland, who is free to speak to clubs in January, unless they elect a low-price cut deal that month with 6 months go.

It is viewed that he and Rangers will talk in 5 months about a potential pre-contract, and Hearts will receive not a penny for their prize asset, in transfer ineptitude that ironically mirrors the nonsense at Rangers.

We can’t quite understand why Hearts didn’t just take Rangers’ offer, which was clearly less than £3.5M, in light of the fact they’d lose him for free otherwise.

This hasn’t worked out well for anyone.

Hearts keep a-now clearly unhappy player, Rangers miss out on the major summer target that they wanted, and the player himself is now just running down his contract and has managed just four shots on target all season. No goals.

This could have been Rangers getting what they wanted, Shankland getting what he wanted, and Hearts getting probably a couple of million and an addon or two.

Everyone would have come out content enough.

This way around means Hearts cut their nose off to spite their face, and Shankland doesn’t get his move.

Wonderful tactics lads.