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BBC News
24-05-2025
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McInnes happy with Jamestown Analytics relationship
New Heart of Midlothian head coach Derek McInnes insists claims he likes to have total control of a club are simply not true and is happy to work with Jamestown Analytics in pinpointing new signings. (Herald - subscription required), externalRead Saturday's Scottish gossip
BBC News
23-05-2025
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'Determined' Gordon signs for another season with Hearts
Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordon has signed for another season with Heart of Midlothian, with the 42-year-old saying he is "determined to make it better than the last".When Derek McInnes arrived from Kilmarnock on Monday, he became the Scottish Premiership club's third head coach in a year during which they missed out on a top-six Gordon, who began his second spell with his local club in 2020, is "looking forward" to "the new era" under the former Aberdeen, Bristol City and St Johnstone manager. "It's a huge honour to continue playing with this great club," he told Hearts' website. "Ever since I walked in the door of the old main stand in 1999, it's all I have wanted to do. I feel fortunate to still have the opportunity to do that for another year."I took my time to come to this decision - I wanted to make sure it was right."Gordon left Hearts for Sunderland in 2007 for £9m - a record fee by a British club at the time for a goalkeeper - and returned after six trophy-winning seasons with Celtic. This season, he held off the challenge of fellow Scotland international Zander Clark to be a near ever-present, playing 52 times for club and country, clocking up his 30th appearance for Hearts in Europe - a new club has now played for the club 330 times for Hearts across his two spells, taking his clean sheet total to 104, while earning his 81st Scotland cap - fourth behind Kenny Dalglish, Jim Leighton and Andy Robertson."I'm looking forward to the new season, determined to make it better than the last," he added."I'm ready to do all I can to help get this team back to where we want to be. Another season, another chance to achieve."
BBC News
21-05-2025
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Prolific winger Kyziridis to join Hearts from Zemplin
Greek winger Alexandros Kyziridis will join Heart of Midlothian on a three-year contract when his current deal expires with Slovak top-flight club Zemplin Michalovce this 24-year-old scored 15 goals in 25 league matches this season - more than any player from the club has managed at that who joined Zemplin from Hungarian club Debrecen last August, has scored 16 goals in all competitions, with 23 goal involvements in 28 describe him as "a pacey, direct attacker with an eye for goal" who "has been one of Slovakian football's success stories" and "predominantly a left-sided winger". A product of PAOK youth system in his homeland, Kyziridis went on to play for Iraklis and Volos before a two-year spell in Slovakia with Zlate moved to Debrecen in 2022, helping them finish third in Hungary's top flight and played in Conference League qualifying the following season, he finished third top scorer in the Slovakian top flight - four goals behind Tigran Barseghyan and David Strelec, both of champions Slovan Bratislava - as Zemplin narrowly missed out on the Championship group after their becomes the second player signed by Hearts on a pre-contract agreement ahead of the new season, with Norwegian right-back Christian Borchgrevink poised to arrive from Greek is the first signing to be announced since Derek McInnes moved to Tynecastle from Kilmarnock as head coach on Monday.
BBC News
19-05-2025
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Hearts announce McInnes as new head coach
Derek McInnes has been confirmed as the new head coach of Heart of Midlothian on a four-year 53-year-old leaves Scottish Premiership rivals Kilmarnock and succeeds Neil Critchley, who was sacked in late April after just six months in Paul Sheerin and Alan Archibald will follow McInnes from Rugby Park to been in charge at Kilmarnock since 2022 and last season guided the Ayrshire side into Europe by finishing managerial career began when he took St Johnstone into the top flight in 2009 and, after a brief stint at Bristol City, he had eight years in Aberdeen, with whom he never finished lower than fourth and won the League Cup in left Pittodrie in 2021 and took charge of Kilmarnock the following January, leading them to promotion to the spell in Ayrshire ended with his side finishing in ninth, two places below lost 1-0 to Hearts at Rugby Park on Sunday, with McInnes absent from the home dugout after a compensation deal was agreed between the clubs.
BBC News
13-05-2025
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McInnes talks to conclude next week
Talks with Kilmarnock over a compensation deal to make Derek McInnes Heart of Midlothian's new team boss will not be concluded until after the sides meet in their final Scottish Premiership game of the season this weekend, with former Hearts head coach Steven Naismith favourite to replace him at Rugby Park. (Sun), externalMcInnes is edging closer to accepting the Hearts job - almost eight months after Jamestown Analytics suggested him as the ideal man to replace Naismith before the appointment of Neil Critchley. (Record), externalRead Tuesday's Scottish gossip
