Hearts star says his future will take care of itself amid transfer speculation

The 30-year-old centre-back has swiftly become a key player for the high-flying Jambos, starting every one of their 16 league matches so far under his former Kilmarnock boss Derek McInnes.

Findlay is on a season-long loan at Tynecastle from Oxford, where his contract expires this summer, and it is widely expected Hearts will attempt to make the transfer permanent.

“I’m not 100 per cent what the future’s going to hold,” the defender said ahead of Saturday night’s trip to Falkirk. “I’m just happy with where I am just now. If you told me I’d be in this position playing every week and having the success that we’ve had at this club, I’d have been delighted.

“I think whatever’s going to happen in the summer will take care of itself. Football’s got a funny way of always taking care of itself. As long as I do my job on the park, hopefully something will follow from that but we’ll wait and see. In the meantime, I just want to keep winning games and see how far we can take this winning streak after winning at Celtic. Let’s see if we can go on another one like we did earlier in the season.”

That 2-1 triumph at Celtic Park last Sunday ended a run of four games without a win for the Jambos during which their mentality and staying power was widely questioned. Findlay is hoping that victory, which took them three points ahead of the Hoops, can be the catalyst for another strong run of form like the one that took them nine points clear at the start of November.

Hearts always had belief

“Obviously it’s been a little difficult spell, there had been a lot of questions asked of us as a squad,” said Findlay. “I referenced it when I spoke before we played Celtic that we still had full belief of what we could do as a team. We went there and executed the game plan as well as we could have imagined.

“It was a really good win but the manager was very adamant we didn’t get too high after the game, just as he wanted us not to get too low after the draw against Kilmarnock. But there’s no getting away from it, it was a massive win for us and it’s something hopefully we can take forward into the next few games.

“There’s always going to be outside noise from supporters, from journalists (about the form dip). There’s a story there, they can do what they want with that. We know what we’ve got to do in our changing room. We know how big a win last week was for us, not just in terms of the league, but in terms of getting us back on to the track we want to be on.

“And now it’s just important we make sure we carry that into Falkirk. There’s no point winning that game against Celtic and then not following up with a really good performance at what’s going to be a very testing venue for us.”