Craig Levein slaughters Hearts approach to next manager hunt as he tells club 'stop plucking people out of thin air'

Craig Levein says Hearts need to stop 'plucking people out of thin air' as he slaughtered their approach to findingmanagers.

The Jambos are sitting bottom of the Scottish Premiership with just two points from eight games. But they are off the mark in the Conference League thanks to Yan Dhanda's last second winner to defeat Dinamo Minsk in a comeback win in Azerbaijan to bring a run to their horror run without a victory. Liam Fox has taken on caretaker duties while the capital club up the search for a new manager.

The capital club are working towards narrowing down who will take over the top job in Gorgie from Steven Naismith and former boss Levein reckons he knows where Hearts are going wrong. He knows the inner workings at the club and infamously served as both manager and director of football up until his sacking in 2019. But he thinks the club need to be more thorough in their approach.

He told Not the Old Firm: “I do think Hearts could put a little bit more thought into what it is they’re looking for before they put a manager in place. I think a lot of times it’s ‘look, we’ll get him, he might be alright. We’ll see if he does okay.’

“You have to know what you want your club to look like before you select a manager. You have to know if you want to be a team that’s really good defensively and fight and scrap. If that’s the case you need a manager that’s been successful at that in the past.

“I think sometimes they pluck people out of thin air without having the conversations with the manager about what it is the owners expect. And I think the days of managers getting time are over.

"When I was first starting out in management you would get time. And when you go into a job you’re generally taking over from someone who