Lawrence Shankland, born on 10 August 1995 (age 30), is a Scotland striker with Hearts and remains a regular first-team presence in 2025–2026. His current market value is around £2.5m, according to Transfermarkt.
Shankland’s early career took him from Queen’s Park to Aberdeen, where loan spells helped turn him from a promising forward into a more rounded senior player. Stints away from Pittodrie mattered: they gave him the weekly football young strikers usually need and bigger clubs are not always patient enough to provide.
His career properly gathered pace after Aberdeen, with Ayr United and Dundee United giving him the platform to score heavily and rebuild his standing. A move to Beerschot in Belgium followed before he returned to Scotland with Hearts, where his finishing became central to their attack rather than an occasional bonus.
His best league return came at Hearts in 2022–2023, when he scored 24 goals in 37 appearances. In 2025–2026 he has kept himself relevant rather than living off that season, with 15 league goals in 27 appearances, plus four goals across the domestic cups. Across all competitions for Hearts this season, he has 19 goals in 32 games.
Shankland has also remained involved with Scotland, making two World Cup qualifying appearances this season and scoring once. His career has been built less on early certainty than on steady correction: loans, goals, a move abroad, and then a prominent role at Hearts.
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