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A winning start to the season looked to have been snatched away with just nine minutes remaining, when David Clarkson’s deflected shot found its way past Steve Banks in goal. However, just one minute late, substitute Saulius Mikoliunas won the game for Hearts with a fabulous strike with the outside of his [...]

I was one who wasn’t going to believe that David Obua would be granted a work permit until I seen it. We have had players knocked back in the past, most recently when Belarusian midfielder Gogita Gogua “ voted best newcomer in the Russian Premier League when playing for Spartak Nalchik. There was a time [...]

Csaba does speak a good game. In a thirty minute press conference, the Hearts manager continued to convey the types of ideas that are only going to make him popular with the Hearts support. He spoke of avoiding the situation where Hearts would be a club with little or no home-grown talent in the squad, [...]

Greek defender Chritos Karipidis could be on his way back to PAOK Salonika, the club Hearts bought him from for a fee of around £200,000, according to the Edinburgh Evening News. Karipidis, who can play right back or central defence, has only one year remaining on his contract and it is understood that Hearts want [...]

Hearts today announced their squad numbers for the forthcoming season. The list was released on the offical Hearts website, whith only one noticeable absentee, the clubs’ record signing Mirsad Beslija.
Before the list came out, numbers one, five, six, seven and nine were empty and three of these have been filled by Christos Karipidis, Ruben Palazuelos [...]

Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov has targeted being “involved in the business of the team less and less often”. Does this mean he is still involved in team affairs? Maybe this is what manager Csaba Laszlo meant by “together” during his appointment.
“Csaba has plenty of experience working in the football world that allows him to work [...]

Hearts striker Christian Nade has been been ordered to lose weight before he can be considered for the first team again. The former Sheffield United player arrived at Tynecastle at the end of last years’ summer transfer window and has rarely played a full match since.

On arrival we were informed that Nade was short of [...]

Speculation linking 20-year-old Hearts winger Andy Driver away from the club officially ended today when the player agreed to a new five year contract. He is now contracted to the club until the summer of 2013.

Driver first broke into the first-team during the club’s pre-season tour of Austria in 2006, just months after Hearts lifted [...]

A late goal from Kestutis Ivaskevicius was not enough to save Hearts from defeat against a side who play their football in Germany’s second tier. The result means that the Tynecastle club have won only one of their pre-season matches so far, 6-0 over Rheingau XI. This came in between defeats to Dunfermline and Kaiserslautern [...]

Danish striker Mike Tullberg, currently on trial with Hearts, has ruptured a muscle in his leg, according to the Edinburgh Evening News, and will be unable to train for around three weeks.

This could hamper the 22-year-old’s chances of earning a deal at Tynecastle, as he attempts to move away from his frustrating spell, due of [...]