Liam Boyce has shot down any notion of leaving Hearts for Aberdeen and is focused on firing the Jambos into the Europa League group stages.
The Northern Irish hitman was linked with a switch to Pittodrie last week, while Ipswich Town were also credited with an interest. It left Robbie Neilson bemused, who insisted he had no intention of letting his top scooter of the last two seasons go, especially to a Premiership rival. Jim Goodwin admitted Boyce is a player he’s always admired, but wasn’t plotting a raid on Tynecastle to try and land him for the Dons. Boyce doubled down on Neilson’s stance, and had no idea where the links had come from.
With guaranteed European group stage football until Christmas, Gorgie is the place to be for Boyce and now is the last time he’d want to go elsewhere: “Exactly, last year we worked hard as a team and we were playing well, getting to cup finals and stuff and this is the reward for that,” he said.
