“We offered all supporters, via our website, the opportunity to submit their views against four options and overwhelmingly they wanted smoking to be banned in the outdoor sections of the stadium.”
“We will not be pursuing our interest in this particular player. The club didn't feel that the overall value was right and will therefore now look at other options.”
“George and his chief scout Simon Hunt have contacts throughout the world and Vladmir Romanov also has a lot of contacts through his involvement with clubs. We are still looking for players and the search goes on.”
“Any suggestion Mr Romanov personally intervened and phoned Dundee United to call off the deal is complete nonsense. If we sell or buy a player it's a financial matter as well as a football issue and the board has a say. The package for Neil MacFarlane wasn't appropriate and so we said 'no'.”
“It would be completely different if they came from Stuttgart, but some of these players are here from Kaunas and there's a measure of influence we can have there,”
“In an ideal world, you would have all your players funded and tied down. It can work the other way. You could bring in a player on big wages and a long contract and find he quickly falls out of form. I'm sure there are numerous examples of that in the past and possibly at Hearts. This way we can look at, for example, Ibrahim Tall (on loan till January) and if he does well, great, we can exercise our option and, if not, say thanks very much and off he goes.”
“We have changed the objective now to sell out every league game of the season. The response from the fans has been great. We are not going to be complacent, though. There are a number of things we still haven't got right yet but Rome wasn't built in a day.”
