Fans’ consortium will launch solo bid for control of Hearts

FOUNDATION of Hearts will go it alone in their bid for control of the Tynecastle club, with the group’s chairman Alex Mackie stating today that he will not meet Angelo Massone or anyone else interested in buying out the Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov.

Mackie is determined that Foundation of Hearts deal with the current owners and no-one else. His consortium remains in constructive dialogue with the Hearts director Sergejus Fedotovas – Romanov’s right-hand man – and is currently preparing another bid after Romanov dismissed their £450,000 offer last week.

Massone had his offer of £4.5m rebuffed yesterday and is now keen to meet Mackie to see if they could work together. However, Mackie told the Evening News today that he will not entertain the Italian under any circumstances.