ian1964

Any links to possible signings from the Scottish gutter press is pure guesswork, lies!!, made up shite. As Stevie(4lads) has already confirmed the Scottish gutter press are getting nothing from any Rangers business, the way it should be.

Sorry, I never seen this thread, I would have posted Club 1872 tweet in here, maybe admin can move it into this thread?.

Edinburgh club will cut squad size ahead of next season By Barry Anderson Friday, 29th May 2020, 2:57 pm Updated26 minutes ago Hearts are preparing to release several players whose contracts and loans are expiring as they cut squad size for next season. Owner Ann Budge has also admitted that there will be no new signings at Tynecastle Park for now. A number of first-team and reserve players have agreements ending on May 31, including Steven MacLean, Oliver Bozanic, Euan Henderson, Lewis Moore and Jamie Brandon. Donis Avdijaj and Marcel Langer are out of contract on June 9. Moore and Brandon have been offered new contracts and Hearts are interested in keeping Henderson, but the others are set to become free agents. Avdijaj has held talks with SC Braga about a potential move to Portugal, while MacLean spent part of this season on loan at Raith Rovers to get game time. Langer only featured three times in maroon after arriving in January. Bozanic has played regularly for Hearts over the last two years but Budge insisted she is not able to extend contracts for senior players after asking the squad to take wage cuts. Clevid Dikamona agreed to cancel his contract back in March when football was forced into shutdown by the coronavirus pandemic. Hearts could offer one or two of the above the option to re-sign later in the summer if they are still unattached, however no guarantees are being given. Additionally, loanees Toby Sibbick, Joel Pereira and Ryotaro Meshino are due to return to their parent clubs in England. Sibbick’s loan from Barnsley runs until June 9, Pereira will finish his stay at Tynecastle Park two days later when he rejoins Manchester United, whilst Ryotaro Meshino’s loan from Manchester City ends on June 20. “We had a very small number of players out of contract at the end of May. It just isn't possible and doesn’t make any sense for me to extend anybody’s contract,” Budge told Hearts TV. “We’ve had very amicable conversations with the individuals involved. It may well be that some of them end up back here again but I can’t extend. “I can’t be asking people to take wage cuts and then taking on either new players or extending deals, so we won’t be extending any of the senior players. “Some of the younger ones, we have to do the usual things like protect training compensation so all of that is being handled as well. “We have sorted out where some of our younger players do have extensions for the reasons I’ve given – we want to keep them, we need to protect our training compensation. “We won’t be making any new signings for reasons which I think are probably quite obvious. “I’ve had a number of people saying: ‘We want to join Hearts.’ I can’t even enter into these discussions at the moment given all the uncertainty. “We don't even know when the transfer window is going to open. From memory, I think it’s supposed to be June 10. Will it be June 10? None of us know. “Until that happens there is a limit to what you can do anyway. So, yes, we are at the end of this season and a number of people are out of contract either at the end of May or early June. “Other than the young ones, we’re not extending contracts.” Reserve players Daniel Baur and Kelby Mason have already been released, with Alex Petkov and Rory Currie also nearing the end of their existing agreements. Budge wants to operate with a smaller playing staff after seeing the first-team pool spiral to 35 players at one point this season. The Edinburgh club were relegated to the Championship last week but Budge wants to restructure the leagues to three divisions of 14 teams, which would keep Hearts in the top flight. If that fails, a drop into Scotland’s second tier would have a bearing on finances and the size of squad they could then operate with. https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hearts/hearts-set-release-number-players-deals-expire-2868962

You would think so!.

JRG presents its Return to Football strategy to Scottish Government Friday 29 May 2020 Scottish football’s Joint Response Group [JRG] today presented its plan for the resumption of the professional game to the Minister for Public Health, Sport and Wellbeing, Joe FitzPatrick, and the National Clinical Director for Scotland, Professor Jason Leitch. The presentation was made by the chief executives of the Scottish FA and Scottish Professional Football League, Ian Maxwell and Neil Doncaster. The Return to Football strategy is in line with the Scottish Government’s route map for moving out of lockdown and based on a three-step approach: Return to Training, Return to Playing, Return to Supporting. Thanks to the work of the JRG sub groups a detailed and robust plan was outlined to return to training in time to begin SPFL Scottish Premiership season 2020-21 on schedule on the weekend of August 1 and 2. To achieve this, we have recommended lifting the Scottish FA’s suspension of football, for the Scottish Premiership only, from June 11. This will enable Premiership clubs to begin preparations to ensure their training grounds and stadia are equipped to deal with the increased safety measures necessary to create biosecure environments for players and staff, including the ability to undertake the necessary testing procedures and observing stringent training and matchday protocols. It will also provide sufficient period for clubs to begin a phased return to pre-season training in line with the government’s phasing programme, beginning with individual sessions and evolving into smaller groups at the appropriate time before entering into full squad training and preparation prior to the scheduled start date. We are fully aware that the third stage of a return to professional football, the ability for fans to return to grounds, will not happen immediately due to the government’s social distancing and mass gathering measures to counteract the spread of Coronavirus. We will continue to plan for the gradual reintroduction of fans as soon as it is deemed safe to do so by the medical experts. Ian Maxwell, Scottish FA Chief Executive: “I would like to thank the minister and the National Clinical Director for Scotland for their receptiveness to our proposal. Return to professional football has been the culmination of weeks of hard work from across the game from people whose workloads and demands have already been increased to cope with the impact of COVID-19 on their clubs or areas of work within Scottish football. “In particular, I would like to thank our Chief Medical Consultant, Dr John MacLean, for his invaluable input throughout this process. As a JRG member and co-chair of the medical sub group, he has overseen creation of a comprehensive strategy for testing procedures and safe ‘return to training’ and ‘return to playing’ protocols that have given confidence that the Scottish Premiership can kick-off in August. “As the governing body, we will continue to engage with government and key stakeholders to provide a similar plan for the return of the game at all levels of Scottish football. While acknowledging that the current testing regime required to be observed will be prohibitive for most clubs out with the Premiership at this time, we are aware that there are hundreds of thousands of players across the Scottish football landscape looking for clarity on when they can return to action. “In particular, the paused Scottish Women’s Premier League is keen to restart and we will be discussing with stakeholders the process to restart the women’s senor game in line with the government’s route map out of lockdown. “Conversations will continue in the coming weeks to outline a pragmatic approach for the whole game and we will communicate those developments at the appropriate time.” Neil Doncaster, SPFL Chief Executive: “We are delighted that the Scottish Government have given the green light to the resumption of football training in June. “We now have a firm target of starting the 2020/21 Premiership season on the weekend of August 1 and that’s a major step forward. We will continue working with the Championship, League 1 and League 2 to gauge their ability to start the season and if so, when - which may vary hugely between clubs. “We clearly welcome the prospect of resuming matches, but we have to take all necessary steps to ensure we can have a sustainable league campaign. That means a safety-first approach, with games initially played behind closed doors and a range of measures to protect players and staff. “The return of crowds is something we all want to see and we will be working with clubs, Government and medical professionals to return safely to playing in front of fans as soon as we can.” https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/news/jrg-presents-its-return-to-football-strategy-to-scottish-government/

Aye, but I still don't give a feck about them or whether they take SPFL to court or not!. Rangers should be the ones challenging the SPFL in court, IMO, as now we have let them kick us again which will make it even more difficult to win the league next season! this was the time, again only my opinion.

I don't give a flying feck about Hertz, they were the front leaders in us getting kicked out of the league so feck them and every other club who all played their part in that. Scottish football is fucked/corrupt.

The envelope ?

Serie A to start in June as well