Shameless Hearts wants to go on signing spree
While other clubs like Partick Thistle and Ross County pay their debts to society and offer players affordable wages the Edinburgh side want to go on a spending spree while creditors wait to find out if they will be offered a pennies in the pound deal.
Hearts went into administration in June immediately sacking some office staff but were allowed to sign Danny Wilson from Liverpool.
Now, rather than attempt to stabilise the club for the possibility of CVA, their administrators BDO want to spend money on footballers even though the club seems doomed for relegation.
Explaining their request to relax their signing ban Bryan Jackson of BDO said: “We’ve put all the arguments forward and, not surprisingly, they’ve all been rejected. Nothing is going to change with regard to the sanctions and I feel really sorry for Gary in that we can’t help him.
“We’re sticking with Gary and hopefully Gary’s sticking with us. He’s shown fantastic loyalty since we went into administration and we have to show the same to him.
“Everybody knows he’s a Hearts man through and through – quite frankly to even think of changing management at this time, with the squad of players we have, you’d have to be some kind of miracle worker.
“Gary’s doing incredibly well with the resources he has. Anybody else coming in is going to have exactly the same resources.
“That’s a major decision and something to be considered for the future. That would be for new owners rather than the administrators.”
Hearts decision to delay administration until June has been heavily criticised with the move ensuring that the club remained in the top tier.
If they had declared themselves to be in administration a month earlier Dundee would have retained their place in the SPL which became the SPFL Premiership.