Dundee United chairman Stephen Thompson is not a happy man. About to lose his manager to the national cause, he claims his club have been treated "shabbily" by the SFA. Craig Levein held "positive discussions" with the SFA on Monday and then met with Thompson on Tuesday morning to indicate his wish to become national manager. It is expected that the details of the deal will have been tied up and Levein will be at Hampden to be announced as the new national coach today. Meanwhile, Thompson insists he has heard nothing from the governing body, whom he claims have acted "disgracefully" in their handling of the negotiations. Thompson said: "We have not received any offer of compensation by fax, email, letter or anything else. We are a member club and deserve to be treated with a bit more respect in this matter. We have been treated shabbily."

Levein, for his part, does not think this lack of communication will create any major problems for his move. Speaking on Tuesday, he said: "I had a meeting last night with some members of the SFA. It went reasonably well. It was about an hour long. It's impossible to get everything sorted in an hour, so those talks are ongoing without me. Everything should be resolved later on today or tomorrow morning one way or the other. I can tell you that I was pleased with the way the discussions went and that's important. It's important for me to learn just what the job entailed and what I learned from the members of the SFA was fairly encouraging. If I do leave Dundee United then I'm quite happy to give you my feelings from the heart about what's happened at this football club, but at this minute in time I'm still the manager, so there's no point in it."