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Craig Levein has branded Rangers "penny pinchers" over their pursuit of Kyle Lafferty .

The Hearts boss at the weekend dismissed the Ibrox side’s £200,000 bid for the striker as "disappointing".

He revealed on Thursday there have be no further developments in Lafferty’s situation.

But Levein insisted Rangers are trying to get the 30-year-old on the cheap, something he admits he does himself.

Levein said: "I have no problem with clubs trying to penny pinch players. I do it myself.

"I think that's part of business of course and I don't want to talk about how anyone else does their business."

Asked if there had been any further discussions, he said: "Not as far as I'm aware.

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"Things are status quo and there's another four weeks in transfer window to go so we'll see what happens.

"I don't know what's going to happen.

"For a deal to go through, three parties need to be satisfied with the deal and at this moment in time there isn't a common ground.

"It's just a normal situation like any transfer it's the status quo and Kyle will be involved tomorrow."

Levein has signed 13 players this summer and he insists they’ve made Hearts a better team.

He added: "I'm still learning and working out who's in the best form and who can perhaps play alongside who.

"There's lots going on.

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"When you do as much business as we've done this summer, that's sort of a natural process as well.

"I'm not 100 per cent sure where we are, I see signs of improvement and hopefully that can continue against Hamilton.

"I know that we are a more balanced team. That's quite easy to work out just by looking at the players we have.

"We've got more left footed players than we've had in a while.

"We have competition for places which is important. We really toiled with lack of competition last season."