Aaron Hickey fell asleep before the biggest game of his career but has now sealed a dream move to the English Premier League.
The former Hearts starlet completed a £19million switch to Brentford from Bologna after two impressive years in Serie A. The Jambos will receive a slice of that fee due to a sell-on clause in the deal that took him from Tynecastle to Italy.It was only three years ago that he made his senior debut in maroon away to Celtic. He played well enough to convince Craig Levein to pitch him into the Scottish Cup final at Hampden against the same opposition the following week.
Despite Hearts losing 2-1 after taking the lead, Hickey was the best player on the pitch and earned the Man of the Match award. And Levein revealed to BBC’s Off The Ball that Hickey was so relaxed that he even managed to get some shut eye on the bus to the national stadium. "The interesting thing is, Aaron's actually right footed, everyone thinks he's left footed,” said Levein. “But he's that good with both feet.
