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Cut-throat Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov has shuffled his management team again with the new season hardly a week old.

Assistant coach Stephen Frail said that head coach Anatoly Korobochka was replaced in the backroom hierarchy by former FBK Kaunas manager Angel Chervenkov.

Bulgarian born Chervenkov only arrived at Tynecastle last month and expects to take a back seat.

But he was a prominent figure in the dugout at Pittodrie yesterday as Hearts battled back from their disastrous opening game defeat to Hibs with a 1-1 draw against Aberdeen.

Frail confirm Korobochka is no longer in charge of the team, saying, "He (Chervenkov) was in the dugout with his input and now Anatoly will be offering advice from a wee bit further back. It worked fine and everything seems a bit rosier after we got a point here."

Frail and Korobochka had taken over towards the end of last season after head coach Valdas Ivanauskas was diagnosed as suffering from stress and Romanov recently said new one year deals for the pair, with Frail putting pen to paper last week.

The Lithuanian based oligarch, however, said in a typically outspoken television interview that he only rated their partnership as a 'six out of 10'.

And, last Monday, Frail and Korobochka came in for scathing criticism from the fans after making baffling substitutions during the derby defeat.

Fans chanted 'you do not know what you are doing', and Frail vowed Friday to clear up the lines of communication between himself, Korobochka and Chervenkov.

Last night, it became clear that the solution was to move Chervenkov into a more senior position whilst pushing Korobochka back.

The shake up comes at the end of a troubling week for Hearts in which they lost to Hibs and saw keeper Craig Gordon join Sunderland, with no sign that Romanov will reinvest any of the £9 million received for the Scotland No1.

Aberdeen manager Jimmy Calderwood, meanwhile, hit back at supporters who jeered the team yesterday.

Their loudest vitriol was reserved for the moment Calderwood substituted popular forward Steve Lovell.

"It is disappointing however that is the way football is nowadays," Calderwood said. "Steve Lovell worked his socks off, the substitution was nothing to do with his performance. It was only the way the game went. Football costs a lot of money and the fans are entitled to their opinions, however it does not help."

Calderwood reminded the hard to please Aberdeen support that his side finished 3rd in the SPL last season and qualified for Europe.

He said, "Any manager gets criticism these days. I was reading that wee Gordon ( Strachan) was not happy with some Celtic fans. When supporters are behind you, they are brilliant and, if they are against you, it can be difficult. However, we are big enough to handle it. Expectation levels at big clubs will always be there. However, we have only lost one game and drawn another against a good team. 2 games ago here at Pittodrie we were triumphing over Rangers to get into Europe."

Calderwood admitted that that Michael Stewart's equaliser for Hearts on the stroke of half time knocked the stuffing out of his side.

He said, "It flew into the top corner and the atmosphere in the stadium changed immediately. I do not think we recovered from that."