Hearts aim to sign Craig Beattie and Ilcho Naumoski

Hearts are closing in on two strikers as they look to bolster their attacking options ahead of the new season.

West Brom striker Craig Beattie and SV Mattersburg forward Ilcho Naumoski are on the Tynecastle club's radar.

Former Celtic forward Beattie has enjoyed loan spells at English Championship clubs Sheffield United and Crystal Palace.

Naumoski scored Macedonia's winning goal in the World Cup qualifying win over Scotland in Skopje last September.

Hearts manager Csaba Laszlo will find out this week if Racing Genk striker Adam Nemec will move to Tynecastle, but the Scottish Premier League club face competition from German clubs including Kaiserslautern.

The Edinburgh outfit have already signed former Red Bull Salzburg striker David Witteveen.

He became Hearts' fifth summer signing after defenders Dawid Kucharski, Ismael Bouzid, midfielder Ian Black and Spanish winger Suso Santana all moved to Tynecastle.

Beattie joined West Brom from Celtic for £1.25m in July 2007.

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