Hearts manager Derek McInnes has been speaking about the club's new right-back and other transfer issues. New signing Jordi Altena, who will arrive from RKC Waalwijk on Thursday, has been tracked by the club for a number of months. Altena should be avialble for selection on Saturday, when Hearts host Livingston.
Hearts manager Derek McInnes has been speaking about the club's new right-back and other transfer issues. Here's a summary of what he had to say...
- New signing Jordi Altena, who will arrive from RKC Waalwijk on Thursday, has been tracked by the club for a number of months.
- Hearts had to act quickly or they would have lost out on signing the 22-year-old right-back.
- Altena should be avialble for selection on Saturday, when Hearts host Livingston.
- Prospective winger signing Islam Chesnokov will arrive in Scotland on Friday but it may be a couple of weeks before he is included in the squad.
- Conversations have taken place with "a few" who may leave the club in January, either on loan or permanently.
- "Nobody has asked the question" about goalkeeper Craig Gordon, who turns 43 on Wednesday, leaving on loan in the upcoming transfer window.
- McInnes describes the award of an OBE to the club's honorary president Ann Budge as " a great recognition".
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