Lawrence Shankland, born on 10 August 1995 (age 31), is a Scottish striker now with Rangers. His current market value is around £2.5m, according to Transfermarkt.
His senior career began at Queen’s Park before he moved to Aberdeen, where his development leaned heavily on loan football. Spells away from Pittodrie gave him the regular senior minutes he needed, with the rougher edges of lower-league and Premiership football doing more for him than another season waiting around the fringes would have done.
Shankland’s career took clearer shape after that. At Ayr United he became a reliable scorer rather than just a promising forward, and Dundee United then gave him a larger stage. The most productive league season of his career came at Hearts in 2022-23, when he scored 24 goals in 37 appearances.
He is now part of a Rangers attack, which will naturally make him a fairly unromantic subject on a Celtic site. In 2026-27, he has made five league appearances and scored three league goals. Across all competitions for Rangers, he has 10 appearances and five goals, with involvement in the League Cup, Scottish Cup, Europa League qualifiers and Conference League qualifiers.
Shankland’s career has been built steadily: early promise, useful loan grounding, a scoring rise through Ayr and Dundee United, a prolific Hearts spell, and now a role at Rangers.
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