{"id":232907,"date":"2025-07-02T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232907\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:41:11","slug":"shankland-flies-out-to-spain-as-hearts-contract-talks-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232907\/","title":{"rendered":"Shankland flies out to Spain as Hearts contract talks progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lawrence Shankland has flown out to join Hearts on their pre-season camp in Spain as contract talks progress. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The striker\u2019s current deal expired recently, leaving him free to speak to other clubs.<\/p>\n<p>He was pictured at Glasgow Airport on Wednesday evening as he prepared to fly out to join up with the Hearts squad at their pre-season training camp in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>New head coach Derek McInnes is keen to keep him at Tynecastle and discussions over a new deal have been progressing, and there is hope a new deal can be struck.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old joined the Jambos from Belgian club Beerschot in 2022 and has scored 68 goals in 137 appearances across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Hearts TV on Tuesday, McInnes said the forward is a player he wants to work with.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI think I\u2019ve made it clear, Lawrence is a boy I want to work with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a manager, you set out your targets, and you want to work with the players you want to work with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m well used to it in my career, not getting everything I want, but I would love the opportunity for Lawrence to be with us this season and while we still have a chance, we\u2019ll hang onto that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The squad are currently in Spain for a pre-season training camp.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawrence Shankland has flown out to join Hearts on their pre-season camp in Spain as contract talks progress.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-232907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114785582161538068","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}