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24 May 2013 10:01:41
Great news, Suttons off to Aberdeen and Davie Weir replacing Vlads puppet as Assistant Manager. Just need the vikings to get the cheque oot and i'm partying like its 1902.

If true, life would be worth living again.

24 May 2013 14:27:45
Yea I'm dreaming of this all day everyday, just don't want it to drag out! Camaaaaan do the deal!

Get facts right Davies weir may come but he's inline for 2other managerial posts and the consortium is going in with £5-10 mill bid and roman has refused the bid by saying hearts want more money

Is it not up to the Administrators in Lith who the club are sold to rather than Vlad/Rodders and co?
Sutton leaving would be good enough for now. happy days!

It hearts who are saying no to this bid they say hearts are worth more and won't sell for at least £18 mill

23 May 2013 01:59:42
Crest Sports Group Norway, working on a take over plan for their client group , to purchase Hearts from Romanov and make the club dept free. They are putting a club structure together involving all the working people involved including a management team to make Hearts a strong force for the long term, many of the backers from this group are indeed Hearts people WITH LINKS TO THE CLUB

There will be plenty of interest in buying Hearts which will be reported endlessly in the press but I for one will not get too excited about it until a firm bid is put in- If we are bought debt free I will bask in the warm glow of the seethe from our pals down at Fester Rd-

The interesting thing is the fact they have had a meeting with the FOH aswell, in an ideal senario they would go 50/50 with them and as we have over 6000 pledges we could still use that income for say player recruitment, stadium upgrades and any shortfalls, there is another 3 consortuims sniffing around also but hopefully the Scandanavians and the Foh get us, debt free and loosen the rope that has been strangling us for the last 10 years.

Not going to happen remember the person who said you would be the next best thing in Scottish football and secondly no one can put a bid in till the administrators say so which won't be for at least a month thing the words clutching at straws comes to mind tick tock

HA, typical Hobo trawling of hearts supporters webpage, I think you will find that the administrators have already been talking to interested parties and the fact is that they are not in Administration yet so this is all pre event due dillegence, if the potential administration happens then they will seek a transfer of Hearts before as an after event transaction will result in a say 5p in the £ where as if they get 20p now it is significantly higher. The fact is that in a months time Hearts will be fan owned in a capacity and free of debt and you don't like this.

The post above due to your obvious blind bias you fail to realise that administration presents opportunity for a buy out as opposed to it. The administrator will look to cut losses to secure at least some money as opposed to nothing. That's why there are interested parties are now circling as there is deal to be had to get the club debt free through administration. I know it's tough but try to engage your pea brain before posting absolute pish!

Hibby here

I too look through the hearts pages to get the other side to the story.
The facts are released very sporadically and the picture is still building so I can't see how some could predict how everything will work out.

I won't seethe by the way. What will be, will be.

A hibbee here truth is you might get taken over by a consortium and you think all is rosy but as an accountant part of what the above person has said the papers are saying they will buy it for £1 yep all sounds good but in this case can't happen the minimum an accountant can take in cases of administration of a company ie ikios is 15% and on top of this the only way hearts can come back as a debt free club is through administration which is going to happen sorry to be the bearer of bad news

As an accountant you should go back ti finance school or even better go on a Hibs webpage, I think you will find that both these company's are in the hands of the Lithuanian authorty's so in that case they can sell them for whatever price they deem best as the best deal before an administration takes place, you will find the persn above said Hearts will be bought for a penny in the £, not a pound, i'd hate to think you miss crucial points like this if you are an accountant.

Why are so many Hibby's interested in Hearts?haha

If it comes to pass I personally hope that FOH are still involved on an ongoing basis. Private ownership has not served Hearts very well over the last 40 years and they have had a nasty habit of eventually running out of money.

Accountant here again I have missed no crucial point you are all just Nieves enought to believe what you want the facts are this today the consortium are coming in with an offer of £5-10mill hearts today have rejected this bid and said hearts are worth more they have also asked the fans to rattle the tins again because they have a lose of £2.5 mill the lose by next weekend will be in the region of £3.6 mill if this is not found fact now let's here your reflection on this I'm in need of a laugh

The alleged shortfall next season of 2.5m depends on what the Hearts Board predict the income generated for the club will be over the next 12 months. The public does not seem to have been informed of what their predicted income figures are!

17 May 2013 08:41:32
I know its only pup talk but rumour is Paul Hartley coming back as player manager, well I know the player bit is nonsense but I'd love him back he's done a great job at Alloa any thoughts.

Would be good, watched Alloa taking the pars apart, he has them working for each other, very good discipline, he could just be the man we need, that's if he doesn't mind doing time in the 1st division, we will struggle to keep our heads above water, HHGH,

I think for next season we need to go back to basics and get Levein back as manager. He would install a bit of organisation and make us hard to beat and get the best out of the players, just like he did with Sir Paul Hartley

Where are we getting the money to pay levin in the 1st div

Hibby here
Watched the Alloa v Pars game on tv and was well impressed with Alloa. They played short crisp passing with the occasional long pass where needed, worked hard for each other and deserved their victory. PH has done a really good job to get his team playing the style they are.
He seems ready for a bigger job now.

I hear that Pat Fenlon is hoping to move onto bigger and better things as well.

Hibby here
It would be unusual for any manager to not want to move to bigger and better things. he still has a lot of work to do though to convince bigger and better clubs that he is the man for the job.

16 May 2013 10:30:07
Evening news has reported that our top targets are David Goodwillie and/or Kris Boyd. Don't see it happening though

Why don't you see this happening?Where else are they going to go in Scotland?even in our state were the 2nd most attractive team in the SPL.

Here's me thinking there's a transfer embargo or is everyone conveniently forgot. At this precise moment you can't sign and player so until this is lifted in September it's all paper talk. I remember they used to do that to the solders many years ago its called propaganda & they used to do it to boost morale within the troops. Same thing is happening here, let's fill the guys heads with shect & maybe they'll buy season tickets. & another thing when the spl finally decide on a punishment suited to a company that's went bust things could go from bad to worse. Because ubig owned 79% of hearts that makes them the clubs owners & according to the rule book your in DEEP doodoo. It's not a criticism but an observation but hey ho you could always go out with the wide on a Saturday

Rule book has an appeal process for when club go insolvent. At the moment hearts are not insovlent, majority shareholder is. Hearts have recieved no money from said majority shareholder for over a year now, so it should be difficult for the SPL to get their wish to punish hearts, but DOncaster is currently writing up the rule. secondly, embargo is only till end of the season, sevco 88 has an embargo to september

Rule book don't & never have had an appeal system, judgement has an appeal system but not the rule book.

You's will be lucky to stay in the spl ubig is the majority shareholder just like Craig wyhte was at rangers so admin is a certainty

Why? Hearts are meeting their liabilities, without the aid of Ubig/Ukio, where as Craig Whyte decided not to pay any at all and took your former club into Admiinstration/liquidation instead.

Your clearly deluded, Romanov has never paid anything on time even the players wages & that's when he had money, think about it it's not rocket science. Take the blinkers off

Do you think that the SPL would have lifted the transfer embargo on Hearts if the players wages were not being paid on time together with the clubs Tax liabilities?

The embargo has not been lifted, there has to be a date on it for example six months or a year & your embargo is lifted in September, just as well as you'll have a 15 point deduction next season

The embargo gets lifted on July the 1st

No the transfer window opens on July 1st but embargo. Stands until September, meaning you can sign who you want but they can't play/register until September

You haven't had any money from ubig but alas you also haven't been paying back any interest on the debt to ubig so in a back handed way you have been helped by ubig. just saying

The EMBARGO is lifted NOW!!!!!!!

The september 1st transfer embargo is exclusively for players who sign for Sevco fc-not spl teams.

15 May 2013 10:33:07
Wilsons signing is a fomality (The Sun), also been known for weeks, also Kris Boyd is signing on a one year deal and Craig Gordon on a pay as you play deal until his fitness is proved. Missed out on Law and Randalph because they've had more cash elsewhere.

Hope Wilson signs as you have one of the worst defensive records in the league this season also hope Boyd signs anothe huddle to add to the collection. Remind me how many goals he's scored this season

Boyd 7 league goals this season, quality signing but look on the bright side you love the number 7 if you get my drift.

Wilson if defo signing a new contract because he wants first team football and he is settled at hears and he has never played first team football at liverpool plus it would make sense to have a scottish defence with Hamil Webster McHattie and MacDonald so I can see the point.

McDonald is no good, Webster is going south Hammil is crap

I think you're being a bit unfair on Mc Donald. The problem is he's compared to Gordon, Kello etc and they're much better.
Don't think Webster will be going south either. At 32 you could argue he'd be "found out" in a better League whereas I think he'll be a good influence on the younger players for us.

16 May 2013 10:09:22
Hamill is crap, def need another right back as well as a dominating midfield player and 2 strikers, goodwillie, Boyd or Nicky Clark would be ideal. Hold on big fob at the top. What huddies have we got like?

Jamie McDonald is dreadful I can't recall him making a save all season, 1 on 1s he's no chance. positioning is terrible

Got the Man of the Match yesterday!

13 May 2013 18:37:59
Danny Wilson has agreed a 2 year deal.

Muppet he could go anywhere in the championship

FACT HE HAS SIGNED.

14 May 2013 13:47:59
Where is the proof? How do u no it's a fact?

He wants first team football, is Scottish and enjoying his time at hearts to I don't see why he would go anywhere else.

09 May 2013 13:07:46
Arsenal attackng midfielder Josh Rees on trial and impressed very much, was on loan at Brentford and Steve Bould rates him very highly.

Ive heard Jay Fulton is another on the radar which is a simalar type of player to Rees, personally i'd like to sign Davidson as think he would be a good foil for the skill and movement of Jason Holt.

10 May 2013 13:23:55
Too many small slight players for this league! Granted, 3 or 4. But we need big Bruts aswell otherwise they're gona get run over, all good players but when you've for hibs, st Johnstone, Inverness etc just getting big animals to kick folk were gona struggle

Rees ain't a great signing and the bad sign is they will all be on loan cause we can't pay the wages so there teams still have the say

09 May 2013 13:00:52
New Zealand internantional Defender James Musa on trial from Fulham, also Chris Humphreys at Tynecastle for talks and Darren Randalph, crazy rumour doing the rounds that Wotherspoon has agreed to sign from Hibs but don't want him as Walker is better, also a young Greek striker from Everton is a maybe.

I'm sure there will be many more rumours to come- the fact is we need to resolve the debt situation with Lithuania before there will be any player movement in- though that doesn't stop ones going out to reduce the costs.

If we have interest in young players at the likes of Arsenal and Everton then believe me the standard will be good and the SPL will be a good stepping stone!

As a Hibs fan, trust me, you don't Wotherspoon, he has been crap all season!

So are the rest apart from the Thumb

Aye that boy Caldwell only scores against diddy teams

Posted a coment on this but your editor didn't have the balls to print it inbread prick {Ed001's Note - as you have shown what an inbred is, I would suggest it was more the idiocy of your abusive and stupid posts that got it deleted, nothing to do with the balls that you have yet to have drop.}

Is ed a Hibee by any chance?or will u not post this aswell! {Ed001's Note - so you think a Hibs fan would not post an imbecilic response from another Hibs fan? Why do football fans always assume anything they don't like is due to someone supporting their rival team?? I support Liverpool.}

07 May 2013 13:27:25
American Tycoon negotiating with the Lithuanian bank to purchase Hearts, source the sun.

As good as it would be I wouldn't believe it at all

Whats happening to the new gorgie flats complex? when is building due too start?

Zzzzzzzz same joke for the last 30 years yet here we are 3 cups later and still above yous in the league. Why you on this page?Running scared now the bubble has popped?

Oooh you have waited all season to state that you are above Hibs in the league, [when we beat Killie in the replay things will be different eh - oh and another 3 points this Sunday will just put the tin lid on you lot as well ]

Does anybody believe anything reported in the Sun

At the end of the day Hibs got pumped 5-1 by their biggest rivals, End of.

Very true.

To the jambo crowing about being above Hibs in the league - NOT ANY MORE eh [anyway it only lasted for a week then we beat you with a reserve team - ya beauty]

Fair enough hibs beat hearts and earnd there 1st season undefeated in derbys in 12 years. hearts went almost 3 years undefeated by hibs along with the 5-1 cup final pumping so stop getin carried away because the same things coming against celtic. its hilarious watching all you daft hibbies get on your high horse actualy believing yous r gna win te cup then watching all your fans making there way home b4 half time. wee team

06 May 2013 20:23:32
in reply to the previous post- its not chapman, the new manager will be bobby williamson

It can't be bobby williamson. 1. Who is he? never heard of him in my life 2. gary locke has signed a new deal with hearts until the end of next season

29 Apr 2013 21:51:58
just heard locke will not be given an extended deal after the seasons over: ( reliable source (Scott Moffat) has informed me Jim Chapman looks set to be given the job.

Vlad? whit ye like eh!

Who the feck, is jim chapman,

Killie's Lady football team will be seething.

Locke got contract until the end of next summer

That's the plug pulled

And Scott Moffat knows this how? Pretty sure I've heard his name mentioned before and I'm 90% sure he was talking sh*te, absolute tosser of a guy

Hibby here

I have heard that Billy Brown is returning to Tyncastle as assistant to Gary Locke. That suggests that Locke is staying, if it materialises.

Billy brown isn't returning and as I sayed gary locke is got a contract until the end of next season so hearts would need to pay him off to get a new manager

28 Apr 2013 15:41:36
hearts hope to speak to representatives of the following players in order to booost squad when embargo gets lifted. danny wilson will stay and sign 2yr deal only if club show they are moving forward and bringing in players to challenge europe places next season.

michael higdon
chris humphrey
** (both motherwell)**
gary makay steven
john daly
** (both dundee united)**
murray davidson
** (st johnstone)**
niall mcginn
** (aberdeen)**

out
darren barr
gordon smith
michael ngoo ** (end of loan)**
medhi touil
marius zaliukas
daniel grainger

That is hilarious

All of a sudden we have 2m to spend on steven and russell and celtics wage budget.

50% of that is true, Hearts have paid there own way this season I think you will find, also Zaliukas's £18000 a week will help us sign 3 or 4 good quality SPL players, Davidson and Humphreys are 99% done and dusted, also Randalph is having further discusions this week.

Murray Davidson is going to Aberdeen and John Daly has been offered contracts by Hibs, Rangers and Doncaster.

I would think he would come to us other than the other three.

In regards to the outs hopefuly Hearts can punt Novi, Sutton and Janny as well.
Davidson said in a recent TV interview that he would wait until the end of the season before looking at any offers. Personally I think he woud be a mug to turn down Hearts for Aberdeen if iin fact we are in for him.

Hearts haven't offered Daly a contract

Daly to join Hibs was talking to him at the weekend it was thought he would go to rankgers but after the latest fiasco he has decided on Hibs

Just heard Higdon is off to hibs and that he will play up front with Daly or Griffiths if the unwashed keep him

Higdon to hibs, hilarious

Oh come on guys, have you not seen the Beeb News tonight, why would players want to come to Gorgie when they are not sure to be paid on time, and more importantly not even sure to have a club to play for after Vlad the Liquidator has sunk the LSC for good.

Sad day when you believe anything the Sun or EEN happen come to invent.

Michael higdon - hibs
chris humphrey - Nott Forrest
gary makay steven - Celtic
john daly - Rangers
murray davidson - Aberdeen/Dundee Utd
niall mcginn Staying Aberdeen

Was in the evening news as well as the current

Daly not going to rangers

All of those are lies.

Davidson has stated that he wants to try his hand in England, like his Livingston friends Dorrans and Snodgrass

28 Apr 2013 12:54:07
Danny wilson to sign a contract at the end of the season, has said he will only do it aslong as other players are
Brought in to the squad, as he does not want to play for a "sinking ship" ( his words 100% true

Wilson definately not interested in coming to tyncastle wants a move back down south.

It`s all over twitter that Hearts are going into Administration, and to be confirmed by the tv this evening.

Hearts are not going into admin

24 Apr 2013 12:42:42
Embargo to be lifted and new Chairman for the takeover group

Good news!

Takeover still can't happen due to ukios assets still frozen

Dunno hearing that Supporters direct have been talking directly to the Administrators and are looking to complete a deal for next season providing all 6 groups can come to a common way forward which I think is the biggest hurdle just now.

Nothing can happen till ukios assets get unfrozen

19 Apr 2013 10:35:25
Nope but told you Barr and Smith would be out the door, also a few other deadwood, Webster is signing a new deal but Zaliukas is away, Know were after Humphreys and a kid from Everton, plus a few others.

Webster in talks with 2other teams the rest your right about

Webster 90% staying family settled and does not see any point in unsettling them.

Even by taking a pay cut I'm not sure any other Scottish club could match what Hearts have to offer so I'd be surprised if he left. I would, howver, expect both Lithuanians (Zali/Novikovas) to depart along with a few others.

Webster will only stay if he takes a wage cut in the papers today.

The pay cut has to come into their budget of £2300 per player which most teams in the spl can afford

Would love Webster to stay but concerned regarding him and Wilson as a pairing if Wilson signs up to.

Both are slow and we play such a high line, every game we allow teams to go one on one with our keeper and leave our full backs isolated. Basic defending questionable since Zal got injured.

Maybe but in my opinion could become the best pairing in the league.

12 Apr 2013 12:46:55
Sam Parkin from St Mirren, who is out of contract in the summer, looks set to sign. Cracking player, knows where the back of the net is, would take him in a heart beat. Would be on low wages and ideal to replace Ngoo when he goes back down south. Can't be much worse than Sutton anyway, let's be honest!

What a signing this would be by the way, ideal for the way hearts play, very encouraging!

What's the chances of Sutton being sold / released? I really hope he is. I was excited as everyone else when he signed but it hasn't worked he's not mobile enough so it will never work.

Lots of work to do this summer, exciting but worrying at the same time.

Loads of work to do we can only bring in players at a maximum off £2300 per week think we're going to struggle but onward and upward hopefully

Where do yous get this guff from?

Guff indeed. Barrie Anderson EEN (hardly a relaible source) tweets Hearts player salary budget next season will be set at £3m. A person then divides £3m by 25 players (player squad) and then divides that again by 52 weeks =£2, 300 per player per week. The flawed assumption is that our 25 player squad (which includes u20s players) will all be paid the exact same wage.

Even more guff, fool. The Budget will include all playing staff not just the first team squad!

£2300 is maximum amount per player coming in fact this came from accountant at tynie

Turf Accountant more likely.

I've hear 2300 as well

Find that amusing when guys like Taouill and Sutton are on £5000 a week, let's be honest no one on this page has a clue what we'll pay or who we'll sign. FACT.

Above coment toile on 3. 5 sutton on his way out at 4. 2 fact mate and the reason we can only afford £2500 fact and as I've said before accountant at Tynie

Haha so the accountant at Tynecatle is putting his job and proffesion to shame by disclosing personal information about clients salary's?Total pants mate, domt come on here spreading your lies.

Was about to post the same as above.

Not disclosed who I work for there 1of 3accountants but the above facts are true

Taouil is only on £2,000 a week

He did an interview about how happy he was to be on it.

Sutton isn't on £5,000. Not a chance in hell.

Get your facts right above before posting lies.

Even if its true its £2,000 pw too much

12 Apr 2013 10:28:27
Murray Davidson was at Riccarton having talks, knows we can't do much till the embargo is lifted but apperently its his preffered move

Is this wishful thinking?

09 Apr 2013 13:48:20
Papers today linking us with Chris Humphrey from Motherwell on a Bosman, also Wilson stated his 1st choice is to stay at Hearts.

09 Apr 2013 21:41:20
Not sure he will come here though, sure bigger clubs were interested. But who knows!

We will never get everyone agreeing on everything so compromise is needed. I do agree however that the 11-1 is a nonsense and competely undemocratic.

Derby want the Jamaican international

09 Apr 2013 01:07:47
Hearts to follow St Mirren and kick that stupid new league set UP in to touch, Scottish footall only needs 2 leagues get real BLAZERS, listen to the people that pay the money each week

I have to agree with ST Midden to an extent. There is no point restructuring our leagues if the real problem to progress, which is 11-1 voting veto, remains in place.

03 Apr 2013 14:21:19
In not a Jambo infact I'm not even from Edinburgh but life here now. seen Chris Robinson, pillmar smith & that Edinburgh councillor cardownie having lunch in the Sheraton hotel. It wasn't me that recognised them it was my colleague. Don't know the significance but hope it turns out well for you

Aye they were having a meal together.

Obviously they were havin a meal

Cardownies on holiday with his kids load of pish

Maybe discussing the trams

Pies all round?

17 mar 2013 12:21:08
mr. v. romanov, about to sell his shares in hearts to supporters direct, within the next few weeks /// tv sports news, come on gary good luck today, bring the cup home, good luck hearts, having to work so missing out today cheers gogs

Romanov has said he will only sell his shares for in the region of £15 mill and no one is willing to pay that so fact is the above is not true

Vlad has to pay bank of Lithuania £6.8 million pounds. They've called that in. He can't hold out for the £15 million as he doesn't have the time to mess around with interested parties. He has to sell, and he has to do it fast.

Shares are worth nowt m8 absolutely Brussel sprout. But hey it could be worse, you could have got pumped from st mirren & going in to administration. Oh sorry that's exactly what happened lol

Good son, your magnificent mob got pumped on Friday and i'd rather have destroyed yous 5-1 then win that diddy cup.

After this great takeover how are you going to pay the debt of £23.5 million has that just disappeared we are still in deep trouble no matter what happens

Ha ha so you didn't want to win the diddy cup shut up ya knob

Usual classless posts from Hobbits whose own club have nothing positive to look forward to

If as reported Mr Romanov owes the bank 52 million personaly then what advantage is there in him holding out for a settlement at Hearts.
The 6.5 million charge over the stadium can easily be converted into a commercial mortgage most of which could be covered by naming rights.
This was the road Tom Farmer chose and it worked fine.
With Hearts income stream the second biggest in the SPL and good governance in the immediate future
the sunshine will prevail in Gorgie.
Other teams continue to blow so hot and cold they are looking into the idea of building a wind farm in the areas of Easter RD so underused and will allow the hot air emminating from this source to power the trams to Newcastle.

19 Mar 2013 22:54:52
On a completely random note, and I want to see everyones reaction to this post, remember the days when David Templeton hadn't wasted his career and started showing a positive season this year at Hearts?

Ok, let's say this takeover goes through. does this resolve everything financially. no there still needs to be cuts in outgoings. youth is the way for you guys in the next few years as it is clear with attendances etc you like all other clubs outwith celtic in the spl can't afford quality players. oh and also before you have a go at anyone elses attendances please be aware your average attendance is actually down by 400 while your neighbours are up by 1000 on last season. supporting your club through thick and thin eh! please realise the true situation and accept this. you have the chance to have a great team using the youngsters you have at your disposal although this will take time (estimated 2 years if you keep them together). you like othere clubs have deadwood needing to be got rid of webster and stevenson for a start. I only hope if this takeover goes through the new owners have at least enough brain cells to realise NO SPL team will challenge Celtic and the returning Rangers over the course of a full season unless Roman Abramovich decides he is bored with chelsea and wants a new project. keep it real jambos.

Hearts problems stem from Romanov running out of money rather than "The Rangers" being in Div3. As for attendences it depends on what base you are calculating your figures from, however I would say these have held up well considering the lack of entertainment on the park and Hearts are not handing out thousands of free tickets for games unlike our nearest rivals. In addition Dynamic Pricing for season tickets at the begining of the season was a self inflicted disaster. Our aspirations for our club remain high.

Hearts gave away 3500 tickets free for the cis final this is a fact as for rangers imminent return that is still at least 2seasons away and it's only a matter of time before the beloved big team go the same way

I think you are getting yourself a bit confused about the 3500 2nd/final allocation of tickets for the LC Final. Hearts were eventually alloted 2, 400 and St Mirren 1100 of these to sell. As for our demise. dream on

Can I ask about the post above and why like Rangers you appear to be focussed on other teams rather than Hearts. do you actually care more about what may or may not happen to other teams rather than what's happening at your own. Rangers got where they are because of cheating and over paying. hearts are here because of overpaying players who aren't good enough. there will be SPL teams who will struggle next season. Celtic, Aberdeen and your next door neighbours are the only 3 that won't incur financial issues on an administrationary level. celtic because of champions league or europa league involvement and Aberdeen and HIbs because although they have owners who won't invest they won't let the club die. again keep it real jambos. good luck.

TBF Hearts Fans raised in the region of £1.5m (at Romanov's bequest), when all sources are taken into account, to stop the club going into administration, earlier on in the season and also to keep the club going until it becomes self financing in the summer. There was quite a different approach, to the financial problems, taken by the then owner of RFC. Many Hearts Fans are now also donating to Pars Alive the Dunfermline Ath Football Supporters Trust due to their currentt financial problems. Until income is distrubuted fairly amongst the clubs and decent TV deals are negoiated the game will contiinue to struggle. up here.

Sorry disagree with above the main issue is not the distribution of TV money its the match day costs.

Attendances with never dramatically go up until prices come down. As such families can't afford to go to games and the next age of supporters are not getting fixed onto there clubs. Attendances will continue to drop.

My opinion is they should scrap league re construction for now and bring match tickets down. £10 for a A class game and £7 for a B class game. A being derbies and old firm and B being all the rest. They should test this for two years and the SPL should provide a financial package to each club to cover the loss of income. This would allow clubs 2 years to get there finances in order. Then we should increase league size etc and the fans will come and come big attendances and more revenue from shirt sales etc.

Above option will never happen it is a business not football and businesses want as much money for as little output as possible people need to learn that Scottish football is dead finished its a business now and the person that screwed up Scottish football intirely was mr graham souness the worst person to be introduced to the Scottish game

Sort of agree with u above but I think 10 is a little low as It woul be too much to make up. 17 for class A and 14 for class B.

If its just a business then the businessman are not doing very good job of it. We would all like to watch decent affordable football but that's unlikelyto happen if Scottish clubs are only receiving £3m from the tv for match highlights (the combined total of Lineaker and Hansens salaries) whilst the English clubs are receiving in excess of £90m from the same source, enableing clubs like Bristol City etc to offer our better players higher salaries than we can thus diminishing the product here. I would also like to see a draft system introduced for youth players with each club being given a quota of the best young players. what's the point in Celtic and previously Rangers having all these youth internationalists on the books when they just buy in foriegn players instead of giving them a chance in their first teams, other than to deny the other clubs the opportunity to do so?

Interesting comment about the cost of watching the game and the attendance levels. I live in Mansfield, Notts- a town with a population of around 100,000 if you include surrounding districts. They play in the Conference (the FIFTH tier in English football) and are having a good season. Gates are around 3. 000. Average match day ticket is £17 for adults. When most of our Div 1 clubs and a couple of our SPL clubs don't get that sort of regular following you can understand why young Scots players are attracted to lower League teams in England. And the standard is better too, I'm sorry to say.

Good luck to Mansfield Town for the season

11 Mar 2013 21:45:21
We will go into admin within the next 4weeks this is a fact I'm afraid but the good part is we will become a debt free club and get rid of vlad and next season when the league is restructured we will be in the first division And keep our history what more can we ask considering our present situation

12 Mar 2013 09:08:32
A "fact" usually includes sources of said information and of course "facts" to back the relevant statement / argument up, however I only see a statement based on your opinion.

Unless you have actual "facts" to back up such statements, don't waste our time with obvious baiting!

Tedious jibbajabber

Bored again mate?

Rangers fan here, your cup run would of gave yous about 300 k, I think yous will be ok

Cup run gave us £150k if we had won another £300k which would have kept us going at close of this season we are in trouble

Where do you get your figures from?

The above figure is correct hears stood to receive £280'000 had they won the cis

10 Mar 2013 15:29:18
Announcement on Monday folkes this if fact

Mothers Day was boring?

Which Monday. you have such a vivid imagination Derek!

Still waiting.

06 Mar 2013 18:03:05
Listen for an announcement Friday or saturday although they may wait till after the derby On administration

Boring. Hearts have been going bust since the 70's yet here we are 3 scottish cups later.

Looking forward to seeing Hearts lift the Wee Cup at Hampden as well Its a bitt like the busses. none for 28 years (in my case) and then 4 turn up more a less at the sametime

Hearts have never been in this much trouble ever

To be honest guys, nobody except Romanov really knows what's going on. You can scare the Hearts fan all you like with 'predictions' but until it's official, I for one am not believing a single word from these posts.

Correct

Get real hearts are in the real deep stuff

More interestingly we should hit the 25,000 ticket sold mark for the Wee Cup fiinal by monday.

I know what's going on its pretty obvious youse are doomed. But don't be hard on yourselves at least you've got a couple of cups to keep your memories alive oh & another thing you could always go along to saughton enclosure & watch a decent team. Like Livingston, Gretna & Dundee before youse, if you pay silly money for mediocre players its only a matter of time before the wall comes crumbling down but hey it's only a game

Aye, all that money for the gambian 'roberto Carlos' was worth it aye haha. At least our money went to towards a cup winning squad not '2nd best'

Haha class, the worst Hearts team on memory yet the magnificent Hibbees can't beat them.

You must have a short memory mate, I've seen Hearts teams much worse this bunch are.

Yeah 3 Scottish Cups - but bot good enough to win the League Cup eh - just proves that the L/C is harder to win. Sold yer souls - was it worth it?

06 Mar 2013 18:01:56
Rudi away to a Prague club on loan

Who cares? he's no coming back

How can it be a loan deal when he is a free agent you person?

Only signed up until the end of their season

05 Mar 2013 16:09:51
Hearts have approached Peter Houston
If they can agree on his salary, he will be appointed before the derby

Another yes man

If Dundee utd can't afford Houston wages! How are we supposed to pay his wages!

If you listened to Sportsound last night Houston is desperate for the job, he would do till the end of the season.

Houstons a snake walks out of utd because of financial restrains then wants to come to hearts for more financial constraints I don't think so

04 Mar 2013 18:43:06
After the announcement at 6pm about romanov leaving his right hand man has asked to bring in their accountants they are due at Tynie at 8. 30

Still waiting

02 Mar 2013 00:40:23
Romanov now bust, UBIG OWN HEARTS, not Romanov, so now they can decided Hearts future, they will not be concerned about Romanovs loss, it is now open market for Hearts, selling to the HIGHEST bidder, within a set period of time, some money is better than no money, and we all know Hearts ARE A VERY MARKETABLE PRODUCT, in Scottish football, so let the bidding begin, P. S. GOOD BYE VLAD, THANKS FOR THE GOOD TIMES

It is in the hands of there administrators we could still go under and bids must be within £15-£18 mill who's going to pay that tick tock

Don't know where these fact have come from but there not true

Critical week ahead for hearts financial woes, could go under within the next five days according to Lithuanian news reports. tick tock.

28 Feb 2013 22:08:26
Gary locke to take over the managers job till end of season. No new salary will be added to the wage bill. Ukio administrators will come after the debt and shut us down. 3rd div here we come.

Would that be a bad thing dropping down, we are. nt going to get into europe anyway so we have to rebuild, we will be lucky to beat the buddies in the cup game, our season is over,

I know he is 100% behind the club but Gary Locke would be a disaster as manager unless he gets help from someone else. Seriously I reckon if he took over we might go down.

How you people can call yourselves supportors I will never know, times are extremely tough, and yes, things are looking bad, this has happened many times, we're still standing, we will bounce back!

Things have never been this bad ever

Its has been much worse than this at times over the last 40 odd years, however someone/group has always appeared to save the club and the same will happen again this time.

It has never ever been this bad, and with the current state of scottish football no one will a bit of money would invest in any Scottish team this week will be the worst week in hearts history don't think we will go out of business but think the best we can hope for, for the club and it's history is liquidation

Division three for us next season, at best division 1, Gary Locke is just a kitman who talks himself up more than John Mcglynn did. Bring back JJ PLEASE.

Thanks to JJ for the 1998 Scottish Cup win however the majority of his players signings since have been very poor.

JJ is well past it now, mind you he is used to having his salary paid late so he might suitable.

28 Feb 2013 20:43:14
Just heard a rumour that hearts might not make it till next weekend

When ubig go under so will Hearts

Yawn, its not going to happen Hobbits. Worry about your own club. What was your crowd last night? Under 8, 200 I heard.

The bank that has taken over ukio has handed hearts debt to there administrators so it is up to them if they chase the debt we will be put into admin if not we will have a debt of £6.8 million which again in theory will put us into liquidation no win either way and this is a fact

The above coment was in Edinburgh evening news last night so it is true

Does anyone really know what the situation is with UBIG and Hearts? I know we don't have money for players but are we at risk of going bust? Seriously does anyone know how bad it is?

The evening news stated that a new bank has taken over most of ukios banks hearts have a massive loan with ukios and the dealings are with the new banks administrators they could liquidate the loan in which case hearts would still be hit with a bill and debt in the region of £6.8mill which we could not afford and may have to go into liquidation the 2nd option is we go into administration our selfs take the consiquenses which we all know the outcome (personnely I think it's the best option ) or 3 someone takes over the club and pays mad vlads debt and they have stated it will only except offers in the region of £15 million

If Hearts are left with a debt of 6.5 mil, the people wanting to invest and take over Hearts will soon make themselves known, getting Scotlands 3rd biggest club for that sort of cash will be of interest to many investors

People are making the assumption that they whole of the debt would need to be paid immediately should the worse come to the worse. More likely it will be paid back over a period of years with interest being paid as well that way the Ukios investors/depositors will get some of their money back.

Read the papers we would have to pay £6.8 million within weeks of a takeover above that ukio administrators want offers for the club in the region of £15-18million whose going to pay that for a scottish club

Papers like the Hobo News, Hubsman and Hobbit on Sunday etc. they are just after a good story to sell papers and have as about as much of a clue as the rest of us.

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