Hearts insist rising debt is 'manageable'

Hearts insist they are not worried by a loss of £5.282m (€8.2m) for the financial year which incorporated last season.

The club’s wage bill more than doubled from £4.5m (€6.8m) to £10m (€15m) in the year to July 31 2006, on the back of squad strengthening, and total overall debt climbed to £28.4m (€43.1m).