Hearts have confirmed their players have received their overdue wages for December following the SPL's imposition of a seven-day deadline.
Jambos says it is a coincidence following SPL's deadline
Hearts have confirmed their players have received their overdue wages for December following the Scottish Premier League's imposition of a seven-day deadline.
A SPL sub-committee met earlier on Wednesday after players' union PFA Scotland submitted a formal complaint on behalf of Hearts' first-team squad on 16th December, when wages were not paid on time for a third consecutive month.
The SPL made a series of demands - ordering the payment of December's wages, interest owed, costs for proceedings, plus timely payment of this month's wages, due on 16th January - with a 11th January deadline in order to halt the financial uncertainty surrounding the club.
Hearts have now announced one of those orders had been met, but insisted the payment on the day of the SPL's meeting was merely coincidence.
A statement on the club's
official website read: "Hearts will carefully consider today's SPL judication into the matter of late payment of players' wages and will decide on the course of further action.
"Meanwhile, the club has today received funds and has paid the outstanding players' wages for December.
"The payment is the result of successful business conducted by the club and it is coincidental that this has happened on the same day as the judication by the SPL."
