Martin Boyle is in discussions with Hibs over a new deal after beginning the new season in fine form.
The pacy winger netted twice on the opening day of the new campaign, leading to speculation that clubs were considering a move for the Australian. Celtic and Rangers were both linked with Boyle and ex-Celt Kris Commons even urged his former team to snap up the player.
Now, manager Jack Ross has confirmed the Easter Road outfit are hopeful of keeping him around and have began talks in a bid to do so. Though he admits the attacker has decisions to make as clubs circle. "At the moment we are in discussions with Martin and his representatives about trying to put something in front of him that would enable him to stay at the club," he said.
"So it’s good we are in the process of doing that. How it will unfold I obviously couldn’t say, but I think it’s important we do our best to offer him the best possible deal we can. The advantage we have is he very much enjoys it here, that’s a good starting point.
“He’s at a critical stage of his career, he has important decisions to make. But it’s nice we’re in a situation where we are having those discussions."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here