Hearts 'can't force' Lawrence Shankland stay amid Rangers

Hearts ‘can’t force’ Lawrence Shankland stay amid Rangers links as deals snubbed

At the club’s new hotel launch on February 5,

“drawing a line under this,” therefore nothing is being discussed at this time.

He stated that the 28-year-old was given until February 5 to put pen to paper.

With Ibrox connections having existed for a few weeks,

the Jambos administration maintains that no offer was made during

the January transfer window and that it would have required a

domestic Scottish record deal of more than £4.5 million for the striker to depart.

According to McKinlay, “the player is where they sit because

we were informed that any contract we put on the table

wouldn’t be acceptable to them.” There is currently nothing on

the table because the deadline has passed.

Does that imply that conversations won’t continue?

There undoubtedly will be, but who can say?

We are happy that we made it through this time.

We felt that the offers we made were excellent.

“Someone cannot be made to stay by force. If they so want,

players are able to terminate their contracts.

I think we are all putting a line under this right now.

Regarding the asking price, McKinlay stated that there were some

figures but no bids. Without getting too specific,

those figures were based on the scenario in which we sell Lawrence and

fail to secure group-stage football in Europe.

Hearts ‘can’t force’ Lawrence Shankland stay amid Rangers links as deals snubbed