Rangers are closing in on a deal to sign Hearts captain Lawrence Shankland, reports the Rangers Review.
The striker scored 20 goals in 34 appearances for the Tynecastle club this season, and he is now poised to sign a two-year contract at Ibrox, with the possibility of a further 12 months.
Shankland, 30, is expected to return early from his summer break to seal a move to his boyhood heroes, and is determined to put pen to paper before travelling to the United States with Scotland for the World Cup.
"We have a pro-Scottish bias in the club," Rangers chairman Andrew Cavenagh said earlier this week. "Meaning if you have two players roughly equal and one is Scottish, we will take the Scottish player."
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Cavenagh also explained that Rangers will look to sign the right characters this summer, "I’m not trying to degrade those that are there, but we need better leadership, more mentality to achieve our goals."
Rangers finished the 2024/25 season third in the Scottish Premiership.
They were knocked out of the League Cup at the semi-final stage and lost to Celtic in the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup.
