I'll buy Hearts! Massone 前線s new £4.5m 企て，努力，提案 for stricken club

By STEPHEN MCGOWAN FOR MAILONLINE

Published: 00:12 BST, 16 November 2012 | Updated: 00:12 BST, 16 November 2012

Former Livingston owner Angelo Massone has entered the race to save Hearts after 宿泊するing a £4.5million 企て，努力，提案 for the club.

A Rome-based lawyer, Massone is 調停するing on に代わって of an Italian 国際借款団／連合 which has （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するd a formal 申し込む／申し出 to lawyers 代表するing Tynecastle owner Vladimir Romanov.

Sportsmail has been told the group will be 長，率いるd by a professor of 経済的なs, with an Edinburgh-born Italian-Scots 商売／仕事 人物／姿／数字 also ready to 投資する.

In the running: Angelo Massone wants to buy struggling Hearts

Massone’s 簡潔な／要約する and 議論の的になる 統治する at? Livingston ended in acrimony in 2009.

In a 追求（する），探索（する） to 安心させる Hearts fans, however, the? 41-year-old 主張するs the 投資 国際借款団／連合 will 調印する a 百分率 of 株 over to them and would 任命する 支持者 代表者／国会議員s to a board of directors.

直面するing 優れた 税金 法案s 価値（がある） £2.2m and a £2m 年次の 不足（高）, Romanov has already 拒絶するd an 申し込む／申し出 by the 創立／基礎 of Hearts fans group, led by 実業家 Alex Mackie, to 支払う／賃金 the smaller 税金 法案 of £450,000 in return for 支配（する）／統制する of the club.

Informal discussions 示唆する the 企て，努力，提案 by the Italian 国際借款団／連合 ― （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するd on 条件 of Hearts 存在 配達するd 負債 and 義務／負債 解放する／自由な ― will also 落ちる short of Romanov’s valuation.

を待つing a formal 返答 to the 申し込む／申し出 however, Massone 申し込む／申し出d to pool 財政上の 資源s with 創立／基礎 of Hearts ーするために end Romanov’s seven-year 統治する.

Massone told Sportsmail: ‘Together with the other 投資家s, we have written to Mr Romanov’s lawyer with a formal 申し込む／申し出.

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‘We do not know how much Mr Romanov wants for the club. But I believe there is no one else in Scotland who can match the value of the 申し込む／申し出 we have made.

‘But I will only come 支援する to Scottish football if I have the support and 信用 of a club’s 支持者s. That is vitally important to me.

‘I am willing and able to bring serious, 豊富な, 尊敬（する）・点d 投資家s to Scottish football. We want to save Hearts and develop the club and make them a strong 軍隊 once more.

‘But we also want the 支持者s to have democratic 代表 on the board and be the real owners of the club.

‘There is an 適切な時期 at Hearts to turn them into a major 挑戦者 to Celtic. With 特別奇襲隊員s in the Third 分割, we can help with the 予算 and use our 接触するs to bring important international players to the club and develop the 青年s.

‘ーに関して／ーの点でs of money and 予算 we can put a team on the park which can compete at the very highest level.’

Hearts 回避するd a winding-up order by agreeing a 支払い（額） 計画（する） with HMRC earlier this week. In tandem with 支持者s Direct 長，指導者 Paul Goodwin, 創立／基礎 of Hearts are continuing 会談 with Romanov’s 代表者／国会議員 Sergejus Fedotovas with a 見解（をとる） to agreeing a fan-所有権 計画／陰謀. 経由で a new website, the group have 控訴，上告d to fans across the globe to 誓約（する） cash support.

Massone 主張するs he is also keen to 勝利，勝つ the 信用 of 支持者s after an ill-運命／宿命d Livingston experience by 手渡すing fans groups a 10 per cent 火刑／賭ける in the club, with a 見解（をとる） to 手渡すing it over to them in the fullness of time.

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‘If we are not successful with our 企て，努力，提案, then I am willing to help Hearts 支持者s to own the club instead.

‘If 創立／基礎 of Hearts or 支持者s Direct need 財政上の help ーに関して／ーの点でs of money to realise the dream of the fans owning the club, then I will speak 本気で with them.’

Sportsmail understands that, にもかかわらず 報告（する）／憶測s, former 特別奇襲隊員s 入札者 Brian Kennedy has no 計画（する）s to move for the club.

合間, Hearts boss John McGlynn says he is を締めるing himself for a major January exodus of players whose 契約s end in the summer ― 含むing Andy Webster, Marius Zaliukas and Andy Driver ― as the club 計画（する）s to その上の 削除する its 行う 法案 to 避ける going 破産した／（警察が）手入れする.