Csaba Laszlo is not happy to see his side in ninth position in the SPL. He is used to looking down on more clubs than the number above him and he has warned that the club will never win anything with kids. Laszlo insisted a refusal to add to his squad with a few experienced players in the January transfer window would almost certainly result in failure in his eyes. He is not about to walk away from the problems his side faces but he wanted to vent his frustration which will be matched by the Hearts fans. He made it clear he was not happy to manage a club which appears to have no ambition to better last season's third-placed finish.
Laszlo said: "If you would like to be better, you must have a clear structure. If you don't have a clear structure, the loser is always the manager. I would like to have development. After third place, I am not satisfied. If you would like to be better, you also need quality. A very good guy said, 'With youth players, you never win anything'. This club must win something and the people are satisfied if they see the team can move forward. You must have progress. Progress is not a step back; progress is to move forward. And this is the frustration from many people after the third place. If in January we have a situation where players are taken out, we must have a replacement. These young players need a guide. We cannot always say a 19-year-old guy is ready. He can be ready but this 19-year-old guy needs to his left or right side a 25-year-old or 27-year-old who can tell you, 'Look here, do this, look what I do and I'll guide you to a better performance'."
Pressed as to his plans for the future, Laszlo said: "I am not happy to not see progress but I am not unhappy to stay in this chair, as long as I see - with all the problems that we have - a clear solution, a clear structure. A structure must always be communicated for everybody. You must not only say internally what you want. We must wake up; we can't ignore the situation. The year before last, the club were also in the same situation: end of the season, eighth position. This is my problem: we come up - third position. Going back again, something is wrong. We showed everybody we can move up and I would like to keep this - this is in my blood. Nobody can take this out of me, nobody. I am angry about this, about everything." Laszlo speaks "every week" with majority shareholder Vladimir Romanov, who is also frustrated by the situation. It was Romanov who did not release funds for new faces in the summer. Laszlo did not want to go into detail of what he discusses with the Hearts owner. He said: " I know how far I can go in interviews and sometimes I must stop talking about this. In every club you have problems, but if you ask me about the board and the owner, I try to resolve it internally. I am sure if you are the owner of a club, you also suffer a little bit. The problem is not the money, the problem is the situation." | Editor
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