Motherwell sign Lithuania forward Deimantas Petravicius
Motherwell have signed Lithuania forward Deimantas Petravicius on a deal until the end of the season.
The 21-year-old has seven caps for his country but has been left out of Edgaras Jankauskas' squad for next month's World Cup qualifier with Scotland.
But Well boss Stephen Robinson hopes the former Nottingham Forest wideman will provide his side with some added quality this term.
Petravicius came through the youth ranks at Forest but left England last summer to join Polish outfit Zaglebie Lubin.
He has now returned to the UK and after impressing on trial, Robinson is excited about what he can offer.
The Fir Park boss said: "Deimantas has been with us and played in a couple of bounce matches at Dalziel Park. He comes with an excellent pedigree; he's already a full international and has played in the English Championship and the Polish top flight.
"He is completely different to what we have at the top end of the pitch in that he's extremely quick, so we have a different dimension. He'll be one that will have to get up to speed and fight his way into the starting 11.
"However, like George Newell, another young forward we recently recruited, we have real high hopes he can progress with us."
Petravicius said: "It's great to have signed today and all of the staff are excellent here. I've been here one week on trial and really liked everything.
"It's been a tough week for me because I haven't played 90 minutes for two months and then I played two matches for the under-20s so it was quite hard but I'm getting fitter every day.