No Heart transfers, no worry

Melbourne Heart coach John van 't Schip has shrugged off a lack of new players in the transfer window.

The revolution is coming, it just hasn't arrived yet.

That's the message from Melbourne Heart's lack of business in the A-League mid-season transfer window.

While fans of the beleaguered club hoped their new super-rich owners might have brought in a big name to whet the appetite for the 2014/15 season, they were disappointed.

Heart were the only side not to add to their playing stocks during a busy transfer window, but coach John van `t Schip isn't concerned.

"We're confident with the players that we have and we want to finish with this group, we want to finish this season," van 't Schip said.

"The club went through a takeover and it's not the time now to shake up the squad.

"To do it now on a short term and have to turn it around in a few months, we decided to keep it how it was."

Van 't Schip suggested the new owners had laid out the transfer guidelines for Heart, which did not include short-term prospects for this season - already lost with the Heart eight points adrift at the foot of the table.

"It was a decision that the new owners took but actually we took it all together," he said.

"If there was really someone we could get in also for next year we would have had a go for it but that wasn't the case so we continue with the group we have now."

Heart have reportedly signed Western Sydney Wanderers' Aaron Mooy for next season after the midfielder was told he would not be offered a new contract but the club declined to confirm the move on Thursday.


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