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Hearts are likely to delay any move for Craig Gordon until the summer.

The keeper is keen to play his way back into Steve Clarke’s Scotland squad but that looks unlikely to be at Tynecastle.

Hearts have got Joel Pereira on loan for the season from Manchester United with their budget likely to be spent elsewhere.

Liam Boyce is believed to be picking up wages of £6,000/week from Hearts which will have stretched the club’s finances to the max with Gordon believed to be around £20,000/week at Celtic

The Sun reports:

Senior figures at Hearts would love to see the 37-year-old back at the club. Stendel is aware of Gordon’s situation, but he insists his priority is to bring in another attacking player. And the German is more than happy to continue with Manchester United loanee Joel Pereira in goal.

He said: “My feeling is we don’t need a goalkeeper at the moment. We said we’re looking for offensive players and Joel played well in the last games. Craig Gordon has a contract with Celtic. I don’t really know him, but I know he has a history with Hearts.

“He is a really good goalkeeper and an important personality. But at the moment I’m only really looking at the last day and that we get the squad we want for the next games. When we achieve our goal, then we can look more towards the summer.

“We want to improve the squad and we’re working very hard to do that. For me, it’s still a new experience, being so involved in the process. But I know now that it doesn’t matter how close you are to signing a player, it doesn’t matter until he signs.

Gordon was displaced by Scott Bain last January with Fraser Forster taking over as first choice when he arrived on loan from Southampton in August.

Bain has still to fully recover from a thumb injury suffered at home to Cluj while young keepers Conor Hazard and Ross Doohan are out on loan.

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