Tony Watt snubbed the opportunity to join Sevco before signing a season long loan deal with Hearts.
The striker has played for four different clubs since being sold by Celtic to Standard Liege in a £1.1m deal in July 2014.
When word got out that Watt was looking for a loan move to a Scottish club Mark Warburton was quickly in contact but was told that a move to Ibrox was a non-starter.
Moving to Tynecastle should provide the striker with the perfect platform to showcase his talent starting with a mouth watering clash against Celtic on August 6 at Tynecastle.
Speaking to Hearts TV Watt said: “I’m still young and I’ve got a large chunk of my career ahead of me, so I want to come back up here and play games.
“This is a big club and I want to come back to Scotland and get a bit of stability. I had a stop-start season last year for a variety of reasons, both in terms of injury and being out on loan at a few clubs.
“I’m not far away in terms of fitness, I’m ready to go and just need game time really so I’m looking forward to getting started. I’ve never played at Tynecastle before, I’ve been on the bench here once but that’s it.
“I’m looking forward to playing here and hopefully the fans will be cheering my name.”
Watt will watch his new team-mates in Europa League action tonight at home to Birkirkara with Robbie Neilson’s side favourites to go through after drawing the first leg 0-0.
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