Hearts Seek For New Manager

January 3, 2008

Being in the relegation zone, Hearts have begun their hunt for a new manager. Vladimir Romanov has implicitly disclosed his interest in running Hearts as the Tynecastle club begins the seek-out to assign an experienced football manager who will take total control of all on-field affairs.

The conventional set-up previously favored by Romanov, majority shareholder of Hearts, wherein decisions greatly affecting the team were taken by Anatoly Korobochka, sport director, Stephen Frail, assistant head coach, and Angel Chervenkov, assistant coach and Romanov also contributing regular ideas, is to be discarded because of Heart’s disappointing performance, being in 10th place in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League and having lost five consecutive matches.

A Hearts spokesperson divulged that the appointment of a new manager is not to be rushed. They are taking their time in considering the best options and no approach has been made to any candidates yet.

Jim Jefferies, the present manager of Kilmarnock is said to be the number one candidate for the vacancy. The Hearts’ board of directors is apprehensive to assign a name that will settle anxious fans and have told some people that they have in mind “a manager presently with another Scottish club”.

Jefferies is also a former player whose defensive flexibility often scores against him in the attacking Hearts team in the early 70s. Jefferies has enjoyed significantly greater accomplishment as a manager compared to when he was still a football player.

In 2002, he signed to manage Kilmarnock in Scotland. He has kept the team in a reputable position in spite of the need to reduce the club’s wage bill, reaching the closing of the CIS Insurance Cup last year. Jefferies is at present the longest-serving manager of a club in the Scottish Premier League.

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