Fit-again Beni Baningime believes Hearts will help him banish his 15-month injury hell by reclaiming third place next season.
The Tynecastle fans’ favourite hasn’t kicked a ball since tearing his ACL in March last year and had to watch as the Jambos let third place slip after a dramatic collapse that saw Robbie Neilson axed and replaced by Steven Naismith and Frankie McAvoy. That cost the club a guaranteed £5m shot at European group stage football. But Baningime is among a number of key players who should return from long-term injury lay offs in the coming weeks along with Liam Boyce and Craig Halkett, with skipper Craig Gordon a little further off.
And once they’re back to a full complement the Congolese playmaker is confident they will wrestle the best of the rest crown back from Aberdeen and stay ahead of Hibs into the bargain. He said: “I’m an ambitious guy. The table doesn’t say we’re the third best team in Scotland.
