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Supporters to meet RomanovROB ROBERTSON October 25 2006 Vladimir Romanov, the Hearts owner, will fly into Scotland on Thursday evening to meet a delegation of supporters concerned at the way he is handling club affairs. He will come straight from a business trip to Bosnia and will remain in the country to watch Hearts play Dunfermline at Tynecastle on Saturday. The match will be the first in which sporting director Eduard Malofeev will be in charge of first-team affairs along with assistant John McGlynn. The supporters' group want to discuss the situation regarding Valdas Ivanauskas, the head coach who has been given two weeks off for medical reasons, and the reasoning behind the appointment of Malofeev as his temporary successor. They also want to discuss Romanov's alleged interference with the team, the omission of fans' favourite Julien Brellier from the side and the reconstruction of the main stand. The departures of George Burley, Graham Rix, Phil Anderton and George Foulkes will be high on the agenda, while clarification of Romanov's previous statements such as winning a European trophy within three years and signing World Cup stars will also be sought. It appears that Malofeev, the 64-year-old former coach of Belarus, has been cleared by UEFA to take over from Ivanauskas for a temporary period but it is believed that there is still uncertainty over whether he has the necessary legal paperwork to do the job, if required, on a full-time basis. Derek Hunter, the SFA's club licensing manager, said: "According to a memo sent out by UEFA in 2004, they [Hearts] are allowed to replace the manager for a limited period of time with people who don't meet the requirements. "If somebody is not able to perform their role within the club, because of health reasons for instance, there are not any repercussions with regards the club and UEFA. One thing you are not allowed to do is to allow the situation to continue for longer than half a season." Malofeev won 40 caps for his country as a player, while as a manager he broke the dominance of the Moscow and Kiev teams in the old Soviet championship when he guided Dinamo Minsk to the 1982 title, Malofeev was also coach of the Soviet Union for two years before being replaced by Valeriy Lobanovskiy. He took charge of Kaunas in December 2005 after a three-year stint with the Belarus national side and a short spell as head of youth development at MTZ-Ripo Minsk. Malofeev took training at the club's Heriot-Watt University base yesterday following an hour-long meeting with the first-team squad to explain the latest off-field moves. Speaking through an interpreter, Malofeev said: "I am very happy as without football, my soul aches. The conditions at Hearts are wonderful. All the time they think about the players." Yesterday, McGlynn travelled with a strong reserve side to Stirling Albion's Forthbank Stadium for the second-string Edinburgh derby with Hibs but was prevented from commenting on the Ivanauskas situation by Tynecastle officials following the 2-1 defeat. Malofeev missed the opportunity to watch his fringe players in action in a match in which two goals from Dean Shiels won the game for Hibs.  Taken from the Herald |
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