Hearts' hunt for a new manager and where the process is at

Barry Anderson provides the latest on Hearts' hunt for a new manager

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00:00I mean, Andrew McKinley had spoke to us last week in Baku and talked us kind of through the process

00:05of what he would do and what Harts are doing and the interview process and all that. I don't think

00:10there's anybody that's been quoted so far by bookies and things like that, that is actually

00:17on the list of people that Harts are looking at. So it's obviously quite a wide-ranging list,

00:24I would suggest. What they want to do, ideally, yes, they want a manager in place for

00:32between the international break-ins. We're speaking here on Tuesday the 8th of October,

00:38and they're still interviewing at the moment. They had eight names on a list and they plan

00:42to speak to all of those. The next stage after that is take the, whittle it down to a smaller

00:49short list, go to the board with that, and then I would imagine a second round of interviews

00:53before they identify the main candidate that they want to appoint. Once they identify that

00:58candidate, it's then a case of, is he in a job, do we need to negotiate with his club,

01:03can we get permission to speak to him, all that sort of thing. So these things take time.

01:08If they can have it all done for the South American game, great, but it's really important

01:12for Harts to get this decision right. So if it takes another week or so beyond that, then I

01:17think they would be prepared to wait to ensure that they get the right man, because it's not a,

01:21given their situation in the league, and changing managers a couple of times in the last two years,

01:27it's not a decision they can afford to get wrong, and the people who are

01:30in charge of this process are well aware of that, I think.