Craig Gordon has been offered a two year deal from Hearts.
The keeper is out of contract with Celtic but is wanted by Neil Lennon although Fraser Forster is his first choice as a keeper.
While that situation is complicated things are even more tangled up at Tynecastle.
Relegation seems a certainty with no football until October. Ann Budge seems close to appointing Robbie Neilson as manager against a backdrop of savage budget cuts and a costly legal bill to fight relegation from the SPFL Premiership.
Tonight, The Sun reports:
CRAIG GORDON is considering a two-year deal from Hearts — as Celtic stall on an improved contract offer. SunSport can reveal the 37-year old keeper has rejected a move to St Mirren.
Now it’s between the two Scottish clubs Gordon has played for as the ex-Scotland No 1 weighs up his future. Celtic want to re-sign the hugely-experienced goalie as back-up to Fraser Forster.
But the deal on the table from the Premiership champions is on vastly reduced terms — and Gordon is unimpressed with the way negotiations have gone until now.
He told SunSport a fortnight ago how Celts needed to improve their first offer if they were truly serious about signing him again.
Gordon was out of football for three years before joining Celtic in 2014 where he replaced Fraser Forster and quickly recovered the form that made him the most expensive goalkeeper in the UK when he joined Sunderland for £9m.
Now he has to decide between the uncertainties of moving to Hearts or signing a reduced deal at Celtic while the club tries to secure another loan deal for Forster.
