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Christos Karipidis revealed today that he's enjoying the tactical side of Hearts training under new manager Csaba Laszlo - and a new, highly disciplined approach to work.
The manager has now had a full week in charge, and whilst he's enjoyed mixed results in the two friendlies so far it is regarded that Csaba has worked well with his technical team and the players to move Hearts forward.
Speaking today at an event to promote Clydesdale Bank's sponsorship of the SPL Mascot Race that takes place at the Heart of Midlothian Family Race Night on Thursday 31st July at Musselburgh, Christos revealed more about this week's changes.
"I think it is good because now we have a manager," he said. "I think he is good. He works a lot of hours in the academy and he wants to change some things. I think this is good to change. We work together and he wants to make Hearts ready.
"I think this is very important for the team, to keep discipline. We need this and work. He said this the first time that he wanted discipline. I think this is very important.
"We have a lot of players that are young and I think we must talk a lot in the training and in the pitch when we play to help these guys.
"I think that we work very hard with him. Every day we speak with him also and we have the future sorted.
"We start with something simple like time. If he says we start training at 9.45 then we start training at 9.45. We start with simple things but these are very important. When he says we must do something on the pitch then we must do what he says.
When asked to describe the differences since Csaba took over as manager Christos admitted that the changes are more about the new man's football ideologies.
"It is hard to explain exactly, but every manager works differently with their team," he explained.
"They have different philosophies. The new manager works a lot on tactics: what to when we have the ball and what to do when new lose the ball - how to organise the team.
"He wants to play football from behind, goalkeepers, defenders, and keep the ball in the grass and play nice football like in Europe."
