Lawrence Shankland has targeted regular silverware with Rangers after securing his “dream” move to Ibrox.<\/p>\n
The Scotland striker has agreed a two-year contract with the option of a further season.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old signed a new three-year deal with Hearts last summer after weighing up his options but the contract had a release clause which will allow him to become a Rangers player when the transfer window opens on June 15.<\/p>\n
Both clubs announced that a deal had been agreed on “undisclosed terms”.<\/p>\n
Shankland told Rangers TV: “I am delighted to be here and to have this opportunity. Rangers is my boyhood club, and it has always been a dream to play here, so I was really keen to get it done.<\/p>\n
“A lot of hard graft has gone in to get to this point, and I’m just really happy.<\/p>\n
“The club are in a position where they want to get back to winning silverware more regularly, and I want to be a big part of that, so that\u2019s what I have come here to do.”<\/p>\n
Shankland came within minutes of leading Hearts to the William Hill Premiership title before his side suffered an agonising 3-1 defeat by Celtic on the final day of the season.<\/p>\n
The Glasgow-born striker scored 20 goals for Hearts last season and 88 in all in a four-year spell.<\/p>\n
Gers passed up the chance to sign him under Russell Martin last summer but head coach Danny Rohl was quick to snap him up.<\/p>\n
“We are delighted to have Lawrence join Rangers,” Rohl said. “He is a player with proven quality, leadership and work ethic, and his goalscoring record in Scotland speaks for itself.<\/p>\n
“He understands the demands and expectations that come with playing for Rangers, and we believe his character and experience will be a huge asset for the group.<\/p>\n
“I wish him well at the World Cup this summer, and look forward to welcoming him back to Glasgow during pre-season.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawrence Shankland has targeted regular silverware with Rangers after securing his “dream” move to Ibrox. The Scotland striker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-468718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}