MELBOURNE Heart is looking to boost its striker stocks by signing former Celtic and PSV Eindhoven frontman Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, a tall, strong forward who has played 17 times for the Netherlands.

The 32-year-old is currently without a club, having finished with Austrian side Rapid Vienna earlier this year. But he is keeping fit by training with his former side, PSV, as he looks to find a new team in the January transfer window.

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink scores the winning goal for Celtic against Rangers during a Scottish Premier League match in 2008. Credit:Reuters

Heart is capitalising on its Dutch coach John van 't Schip's links with his homeland by also targeting another out-of-favour Eredivisie striker, Ajax's Mounir El Hamdaoui, a 27-year-old who was once on the books of Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur.

But the club acknowledges the chances of El Hamdaoui, a Moroccan international opting to come to the other side of the world for a 10-game stint are slim, given his age, the club that he plays for and the fact that he has been linked with clubs in Spain's La Liga and the English Premier League.