The most naturally gifted goal scorer since John Robertson has just checked in at Tynecastle.
It’s the image of the summer which also arrived for Hearts fans yesterday with Lawrence Shankland pictured in the club training gear. I look at his range of goals, the tap-ins, headers and strikers from 40-yards, he also scored one recently in Belgium for Beerschot from over the halfway line. No matter what league you play in and no matter the standard, the goals never move and he knows how to find them.
Robbo's are wee shoes to fill but Hearts needed this signing, if they are to split the Old Firm then they need someone who can score between 15 and 20 goals every season and Shankland’s capable of hitting those figures. With the chances that will be created for him, he can score more goals than he’s ever scored in his career so far. His predatory inside the penalty box, he’s at a club now with a style of play which is about attack after attack and if I was Shankland and had his ability then I’d back myself to become the Premiership’s top marksman this season.
