Daraktan wasanni na Hearts, Graeme Jones, ya kare shawarar kulbin da ta haɗa da tanadin karya yarjejeniya a cikin kwangilar Lawrence Shankland, wanda ya ba wa dan wasan damar barin Tynecastle Park ya shiga Rangers kyauta a wannan lokacin rani.

Kyaftin ɗin mai shekaru 30 ya sanya hannu kan sabon kwangilar shekaru uku da Hearts a watan Yuli na bara, amma wata hanya da aka sanya a cikin yarjejeniyar ta ba shi damar ficewa ba tare da kuɗin canja wuri ba. Shankland ya zura kwallaye 20 a kakar da ta gabata yayin da Hearts suka rasa taken Scottish Premiership ga Celtic a ranar karshe.

Jones yana bayyana lissafin

A wata hira da kulob ɗin ya gudanar, Jones ya amince cewa shawarar na iya zama wuya ga magoya baya su karɓa, amma ya dage cewa ita ce mafi kyawun zaɓi. "Yanayin da Lawrence shekara guda da ta wuce ya kasance mai sauki: mu a matsayin kulob dole ne mu yi lissafi ko muna so mu riƙe Lawrence ko a'a," ya ce.

"Kuma hanyar kaɗai da za mu iya riƙe shi ita ce ta yarjejeniyar da aka amince da ita a ƙarshe. Wannan lissafin ya dogara ne akan gaskiyar cewa idan mun yi nasara sosai a matsayin ƙungiya kuma Lawrence ya yi nasara a filin wasa, hatsarin shi ne za mu rasa shi a ƙarshen kakar farko."

Jones ya ƙara cewa yana fahimtar takaicin magoya baya tare da kare sakamakon: "Ina fahimtar takaicin da magoya bayanmu za su ji saboda rasa kyaftinsu da dan wasansu, amma ita ce yarjejeniyar kaɗai da za ta ba mu damar ci gaba. Ina kare shawarar da muka yanke kuma ina godiya don kakar da muka yi da Lawrence."

Daraktan wasanni ya kuma nuna fatan alheri game da alkiblar kulob ɗin: "Kamar dukkan ƙungiyoyi, suna bunƙasa bayan 'yan wasa, kuma ina matuƙar farin cikin bunƙasar wannan ƙungiya a wannan rani, 'yan wasan da za mu kawo da abubuwan da za mu iya cimma a nan gaba."

Makomar Devlin har yanzu ba ta bayyana ba

Jones ya tabbatar da cewa tattaunawar da dan wasan tsakiya na Australia, Cammy Devlin, wanda kwangilarsa ta ƙare, na ci gaba. "Yanayin yana ci gaba, tattaunawar tana gudana tare da wakillan Cammy kuma akwai tattaunawar da ke da kyau," ya ce, yana ƙara cewa yana fatan samun bayani a cikin mako guda ko fiye game da ko Devlin zai kasance ko ya bar kulob ɗin.

Sake ginin ya riga ya fara

Hearts sun yi sauri a kasuwar canja wuri, suna kawo Josh McPake da MJ Kamson-Kamara, yayin da Tom Renaud da Calvin Miller suma suna kusa da sanya hannu. Jones ya yi ishara da cewa ƙarin ƙarfafawa na zuwa, yana ƙarfafa magoya baya su yi tsammanin sabbin 'yan wasa a cikin makonni masu zuwa.

Shankland yana barin Tynecastle bayan ya zura kwallaye 88 a wasanni 171 — rikodin da ke nuna girman giɓin da Hearts dole ne yanzu su cike. Kocin ƙungiyar Derek McInnes yana fuskantar ƙalubale biyu: maye gurbin kyaftin da kuma dan wasan da ya saba zura fiye da kwallaye 20 a kaka. Shankland zai fara haɗuwa da sabon abokan wasansa na Rangers bayan ya wakilci Scotland a FIFA World Cup 2026.