Jimbo 175 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Romanov issues warning to players Hearts majority shareholder Vladimir Romanov has warned his players they are all for sale if they do not win this weekend, BBC Scotland has disclosed. And captain Steven Pressley responded with a statement voicing the players' unhappiness at affairs at the club. Romanov says he will move players on to "Kilmarnock or whatever club will take them" unless they defeat Dunfermline. And he has warned that he would then play a team of youngsters against Celtic the following weekend. Statement: Hearts captain Steven Pressley BBC Scotland disclosed the latest turn of events only days after Romanov granted head coach Valdas Ivanauskas two weeks' leave on the grounds of ill-health. Second-top Hearts had lost 2-0 at home to Kilmarnock last weekend, leaving the Edinburgh club eight points adrift of holders Celtic. While publicly I have expressed the needs for unity, behind the scenes I have made my concerns abundantly clear And, at Fridays pre-match media conference ahead of Dunfermline's visit, Pressley revealed that there is "significant unrest" in the dressing-room. Flanked by team-mates Paul Hartley and Craig Gordon, Pressley said in a statement that the last two years had been "testing for the players". He said the squad wished Ivanauskas well but stressed that trying to maintain team discipline and unity had become "an impossible task". "This is a statement on behalf of a number of players," he said. "This statement is no reflection on Eduard Malofeev. My first impression is that he is an honest and diligent man. "I would like to wish Valdas a speedy recovery, but whether he returns or not is almost incidental in association with the problems related to this football club. "I have tried, along with the coaching staff and certain colleagues, to implement the correct values and discipline, but it has become an impossible task. "There is only so much coaching staff, a captain and certain colleagues can do without the full backing, direction and coherence of the manager and those running the football club. "While publicly I have expressed the needs for unity, behind the scenes I have made my concerns abundantly clear. "The last two years have been testing for the players and together they have faced a number of challenges. "I would have worked hard to have retained unity. "However, due to circumstances, morale understandably is not good and there is significant unrest in the dressing-room." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Werent they top of the league last season only for the manager to be sacked or something? That romanov sounds like a reet prick though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31600 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Maybe now you will all appreciate what a good job Shepherd is doing, though to be honest our players could do with that sort of threat. BTW isn't he Lithuanian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15871 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Same thing. Just like Macedonia voting for Estonia in Eurovision is "neighbourly voting". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GafferTape 0 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Estonia is nowhere near Macedonia. Estonia is in northern europe, just south of the sweden, while Macedonia is north of Greece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut 281 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 I'm sure all Hearts fans are devastated at the fact they've went from mid-table & in the sh*t financially, to overtaking Rangers. If our next chairman is an utter c*nt and we finish top 3 I'll be happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15871 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Estonia is nowhere near Macedonia. Estonia is in northern europe, just south of the sweden, while Macedonia is north of Greece. Fuck's sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ 0 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 ANARCHY!!!!! Hearts are fucked like. Romanov has been taking the piss with what he's doing at Hearts. They're on the brink of falling apart. I'm sure all Hearts fans are devastated at the fact they've went from mid-table & in the sh*t financially, to overtaking Rangers. If our next chairman is an utter c*nt and we finish top 3 I'll be happy. Hearts were 3rd when Romanov took over. Hardly midtable. And in a way they're still in the shit financially. All it takes is Romanov to pull out and they're gone. He's not wiped out the debt. He's just transferred it to his bank, so he's claiming the interest and not whichever bank was before. Aye Hearts may be above Rangers right now, but Rangers are an absolute joke at the moment. St Mirren nearly overtook Rangers on Sunday. Aye things are good so far, but if Romanov sells Hearts best players, they'll struggle to replace them. Romanov still hasn't paid the fee for Beslija, even though he was signed in January. It's getting to the point that Genk are going to report Hearts for not paying that fee. Romanov is at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish Mag 3 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 They do not even ow the majority of their squad, if any club was to come in for the majority of their players the money would end up at Kaunas as that is where half their squad is on loan from and the money would go straight back to Romanov with Hearts seeing none of it and would still have the big debt hanging over their head. One of the only ways I seen Hearts as having a chance of getting rid of some of the debt was through the Champions League but without that I think it will end in tears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 10431 Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Follow Hearts very strongly and go up and see them alot. Hearts are not ****ed aslong as Vlad is in charge, just the other SPl teams like to believe that!. Ok after todays statement Gordon, Pressley and Hartley may never wear a Hearts shirt again but Vlad is clever and will bring cover from overseas. Like somebody says 3 years ago we would have been mid table now we have overtaken Rangers. long may it continue and if a minority of the players aernt happy then let them go elsewhere and let the jambos concentrate on winning the league!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 10431 Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Scottish mag, Hearts are debt free as Romanov settled club debts when he became majority shareholder, He also owns Kaunas aswell as Hearts so the money woukd end up at Hearts as they are his priority club. The players are signed to Kaunas and loaned to Hearts for British tax dodging reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima 0 Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 (edited) The Guardian: As that fella from the Crying Game or Francis Begbie would tell you, you should always look below the surface before making a decisive judgement. Take Hearts, for example. On the face of it, all is well: they have broken the Old Firm hegemony, the most admirable achievement in Scotland since somebody took Take The High Road off the air in 2003, and lie second in the SPL - the same place they finished last season. But despite the good results, there has been increasing discontent at the club since the megalomaniacal head honcho Vladimir Romanov came on the scene - and it was all confirmed today when the club captain and part-time philosophy student (look at his beard, three-quarter length coat and satchel!) Steven Pressley released a statement saying that bears often deposit a bit of fibre in the woods. "There is significant unrest within the dressing-room," bristled Pressley, absent-mindedly tossing a pint glass over his shoulder. Since Romanov arrived, Hearts have been through more bosses than a profligate fashionista: six in 18 months, with Eduard Malofeev taking over this week from Valdas Ivanauskas, who has stepped down for a fortnight due to ill health. "I would like to wish Valdas a speedy recovery," added Pressley, "but whether he returns or not is almost incidental in relation to the problems associated with this football club." Pressley's intentions are commendable, but then so were Edward Woodward's in The Wicker Man. And given Romanov's penchant for dishing out P45s, he could come to a similarly grisly end. (Obviously we're not suggesting that Romanov will have Pressley whacked here folks, just that he might get rid of him in a footballing sense. But if he does burn him alive in a giant man-shaped basket, remember where you heard it first.) "I have tried along with the coaching staff and certain colleagues to implement the correct values and disciplines," continued Pressley, grabbing an envelope marked 'my own fate' and sealing it, "but it has become an impossible task." Today's events haven't made it any easier. They only drew btw. Watch this space. Edited October 29, 2006 by Sima Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish Mag 3 Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Hearts are not ****ed aslong as Vlad is in charge, just the other SPl teams like to believe that!. They are looking that way just now to be fair... 10th in the league... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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