Hearts: Managerial changes were required, says Craig Levein
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Hearts' new director of football Craig Levein has defended the club's managerial shake-up.
New owner Ann Budge replaced manager Gary Locke with Levein and new head coach Robbie Neilson.
Levein, addressing a media conference on Tuesday, said difficult decisions had to be taken at the Edinburgh club.
Neilson stressed that he would pick the team in the Championship next season but would discuss his selection with the director of football.
Locke and assistant Billy Brown are leaving their positions at Tynecastle, with goalkeeper coach Alan Combe and senior players Jamie Hamill, Jamie MacDonald and Ryan Stevenson also departing.
Budge, through her Bidco 1874 consortium, struck a deal this month to buy the club from their former Lithuanian owners and is going through the legal process of taking the club out of administration.
And she has vowed to mend the "broken" club as is seeks to make an immediate return to the top flight.
Levein conceded that delivering news of the changes had proved difficult.
"Trust me, yesterday was a hugely difficult day," he said. "I have got a lot of respect for Gary Locke and a lot of time for him as a person.
"The last thing I wanted to do was tell Gary Locke there wasn't a role for him in this new structure. But ultimately that is the fact."
Neilson said he had sought and received assurances over his role in the new management structure.
"I will pick the team," said the new head coach. "When Craig spoke to me on Sunday night that was one of the questions I asked him and he assured me I would pick the team. That's the reason I'm sitting here."
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But the whole 'director of football' thing with a different 'first team coach picking the team'...? Absolute recipe for disaster.
of course he defended it, it got him a job and someone else the sack...
Get a life. Petty digs at grammatical and spelling mistakes, on an online forum, is really scraping the barrel.
Hearts are where they are. It will take 3 or more years to find out whether or not these decisions are the right ones. The positive out of this for me is that Hearts are putting in place plans to ensure there survival (and hopefully success) of the club for years!
Also never understand why a club with its finances in a mess incur more expense by appointing a director of football with a less than stellar track record. If I was a Hearts fan I would be thinking about cancelling that direct debit.
Sad to read such negativity stirred up by what seems to be a bold and decisive move to restore Hearts fortunes.
I'm not a Jambo but I won't grudge Budge and Levein every success.
Scottish football needs it.
it will put the SPL to shame
So much for the vision from Doncaster and Co
16 team league was always what the fans wanted, but we are just fans
Aye right.
Don't you know ALL Hearts fans have cancelled their DD and nobody is buying a ST. We all much prefer going into liquidation.
For the record, as confirmed by a FOH contact, NOBODY has cancelled their DD after yesterday.
Interesting name - Bib.
Do you still wear one? You dribble enough.
You do not have a clue.
Heavily involved with FOH actually and was NOT a Vlad lover I can assure you.
Don't lecture me about HMFC thank you very much.
Why no colours???? If you support the team, wear the team colours.
Nobody is asking you to wear a Levein scarf.