Robbie Neilson needs so as to add at the least an extra 5 new signings to his Hearts squad. The Jambos boss has made a quick begin to the summer season switch window by including Alan Forrest, Kye Rowles and Lewis Neilson to his ranks already.
The Tynecastle aspect are tooling up for a crack on the Europa League however are assured group stage soccer within the Europa Convention League even when they fall brief in qualifying for UEFA's second tier match. And that can require a strengthened squad to additional push the gamers who comfortably completed third in final yr's Premiership, with Neilson telling the Edinburgh Night Information he has a lot extra targets on his radar.
He plans to focus on a number of areas together with one other striker, a pair of artistic attackers, a central midfielder and one other defender. Lawrence Shankland had been recognized as a possible attacking addition however Belgian aspect Beerschot have insisted the Scotland worldwide isn't on the market.
Regardless, Neilson has insisted he intends to maintain pushing for brand new arrivals after earlier revealing the membership had been prioritising everlasting offers over mortgage strikes this summer season.
Neilson mentioned: “We're nonetheless trying to get one other defender in for the right-hand aspect. We introduced Lewis Neilson in, he'll get recreation time and he's a participant we need to develop. We're nonetheless trying to recruit in that space as properly.
“We nonetheless have a few areas we need to strengthen in. We're searching for a striker, a few guys who can play the No.10 function, plus a central midfielder. There are fairly a number of areas.
“The goal is to extend the squad dimension. We ran with a first-team group of 21 final yr so we need to get that variety of to 23.
"That might then enable us to herald a number of youthful gamers who will predominantly be within the B group however will prepare with us throughout the day.”