Stephen Humphrys reckons he has landed on his feet after going from the bench at Wigan to playing European football.
The striker has joined Hearts on a season-long loan and can’t wait to test himself in the Premiership and in the Europa Conference League group stage. The 24-year-old faces a baptism of fire at Livingston tomorrow before Hearts host Istanbul Basaksehir in their first group match on Thursday.
And Humphrys said: “It was a bit of a mad one. I got a call quite late the night before deadline day about Hearts. I just digested the information that Hearts wanted me. First thing in the morning I called the gaffer, the conversation was about three minutes long, then I went into the manager at Wigan and said, ‘Can I go?’ That was it. It shows how quickly things in football change. I was struggling to get game time and now I could get the opportunity to play in Europe.
