Neil Critchley looks set to be named as the new Hearts manager. The former Queen’s Park Rangers and Blackpool boss is in advanced talks with the Tynecastle hierarchy and is expected in the capital on Monday. Critchley is expected to bring in his own backroom team, which is likely to include his long-term assistants Mike Garrity and Iain Brunskill.

Now it looks like former QPR and Blackpool boss Critchley is the man who will take over the top job at Tynecastle with the Daily Record reporting that he is in advanced talks with the club hierarchy and is expected to be in Edinburgh TOMORROW.

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Critchley is a former academy director at Liverpool having also coached the Reds’ U18 and U23 sides. He won promotion with Blackpool after taking them through the English League One play-offs before leaving to become No.