If Hearts can team up with Tony Bloom they may be onto a winner like never before in their 150-year history. The Brighton and Hove Albion owner and chairman has been in talks with Tynecastle over a £10million investment.
Bringing the brains - and the software - behind the best-run club in Britain to Gorgie has the potential to be a game-changer for Hearts.
Bloom, 54, has gradually transformed his beloved Brighton from League One to a Europa League club. His bankrolling of that rise has bucked the trend of so many Premier League operations boosted by foreign investment but blighted by eye-watering losses and high managerial turnover.
At the heart of Brighton’s success is the mathematical genius and his data-driven player recruitment model. His company, Starlizard, was established in 2006.