DC92

What the f**k are you on about? Having a tighter budget doesn't mean you need to hastily fill the squad up with shite on long term deals. Unless these guys miraculously turn out to be any good, this is shaping up to be the worst transfer window I can ever remember. By the time we start to see the financial benefits of the new stand our budget will already be hamstrung by having all these huddies weighing us down.

I'm normally an optimistic person and I like to think I take a pretty balanced view but, f**k me, just look at the nick of the absolute dross we've signed. MacLean - 36 and probably finished - 2 year deal. Ikpeazu - it takes about 10 seconds of footage to see he's an absolute huddy - 2 year deal. Burns - actually seems quite promising. Lee - might be okay but any League Two player is a bit of a punt - 3 year deal. Mulraney - can't get a game for a midtable Championship team - 2 year deal. Garuccio - a left-back who "can't defend" in a diddy league - 3 year deal. Zlamal - journeyman keeper who couldn't get a regular game at any of his previous clubs - 3 year deal. That's at least 12 years' wages tied up in players who, I'm willing to bet, we'll be trying to get rid of by this time next year. And it's not even June yet. It's unbelievable that Levein and Murray have been given another transfer window. Next season is already fucked.

Mostly Twitter. Stuff about him taking a step down to a lower level for more money, Tynecastle being a soulless identikit stadium compared to their characterful shithole, local journos tweeting about it being a "strange" move. The usual.

The tears of English diddy club fans when their players opt to move to bigger clubs in a better league. Three year deal is concerning for a League Two player. From the clips it seems like he has good feet and a decent shot on him so he looks like a better bet than Ikpeazu in terms of diddy league signings.

It's good of the club to disabuse us of any notion that we might be half-decent next season nice and early.

I'm afraid to say that your history as an apologist for racists reveals all your posts on this topic to be motivated by shamelessly opportunistic point-scoring and thus completely undermines them. It's a shame that someone would try to cheapen the discussion of a serious issue in this way. I agree with your second point, notwithstanding the fact it comes from a place of one-upmanship rather than genuine concern. The attitude that some Hearts fans have towards black players is a disgrace. Fortunately, blatant racist abuse is heard relatively rarely (in my experience) but the subtler stuff (black players disproportionately being accused of being lazy, being unfairly compared to other black players etc.) is more widespread and there's a long way to go before we can say that Scottish football doesn't have a problem with racism.

If anyone is wondering where they can read Romeo's withering criticism of Aleksandar Tonev, here it is: Sweep sweep.

I think it was Isma who broke out the small minority chat m8.

Partick was 2006. We played St Mirren in 2012.

"Protection" in this context presumably involves referees discouraging aggressive challenges by adequately punishing them, thereby "protecting" the potential recipients of these challenges. By saying that players should be protected against Scott Brown, he's essentially saying that Brown doesn't pick up as many cards as he should. Pointing out Hearts' card count is irrelevant because this shows, if anything, that referees are punishing poor challenges by our players. The Graeme Hogg incident would only be hypocritical if Levein thought punching another player didn't warrant punishment. Whataboutery.

Yeah, a fake screenshot that anyone can make.

Not sure if that'll happen with the recall of Conner from Partick Thistle We haven't recalled him. Sounds like Haber is very much a back-up option, thankfully.

The Kickback thread on him is quite something. One poster said he sounded "a bit Doudaesque" (sic). Another hoped he wasn't "another Oshaniwa".

Isma is frustrating as f**k but some of the criticism of him recently has been way over the top. Lafferty hasn't much better IMO. That said, if we get a decent fee, it's a no-brainer.

Hibs love a Hearts reject full-back. Oshaniwa next year.

To be fair, he was a passable defensive right-back when we played in the Championship. More natural at centre-back but doesn't have the physical attributes to play there.

Equally shite at both.

No he hasn't. We've got him manning the phones.

The only explanation I could think of was that we wanted him to play left-back.

Two players we got rid of three years ago. Inspiring stuff.

Very meh about the prospect of Holt coming back. Can't see how he'd fit into a 4-4-2 for a start.

We needed a winger anyway even if Walker stays. If he goes then we'll need another one or an attacking midfielder. Not that I believe O'Halloran's coming here.

Nah, he's not shite. He just has a heart the size of a pea, disappears when the going gets tough, hardly ever creates chances for others, is too slow to play on the wing and has a dodgy knee. He's a good goalscorer, although his record is a lot less impressive when you exclude the penalties. More seriously, I think he's at his best when he's basically playing as a second striker. He struggles to influence the game on the wing (which is where I think Rangers intend to play him) and that's partly why I think he'll fail. He'll end up at a Barnsley/Rotherham type club or back at Tynecastle in a couple of years.