Aloisi, who played in the Premiership, Italy's Serie A and Spain's Primera Liga, has contacts at numerous clubs and will look to link up with Spanish colleagues. ''We are looking at leaving on March 17 and plan to spend four weeks in Europe travelling to different countries,'' Aloisi said. ''Foxey knows a lot of people in England, and one of my good mates is Juan Carlos Unzue, who is the assistant coach at Celta Vigo, where Luis Enrique is the head coach. ''Luis … is a good person to talk to - he played for Real Madrid and Barcelona, and for Spain in World Cups, while Juan Carlos has been a head coach at Racing Santander. I know him from my time at Osasuna.'' Aloisi says he is getting over the pain of being sacked and is genuinely happy for Heart now that it has started to hit form and win games. ''It was hard in those first few weeks,'' he said. ''Coaching is what I wanted to do, and I really loved it, but you have to get on and think about how you can improve yourself when you next get an opportunity. I am starting to get over it now and look to the future.''

He is not surprised Heart has managed to turn things around under his successor, John van 't Schip, who was the coach who signed him as one of the first players to join the fledgling A-League club for its first season in 2010-11. ''John is an experienced coach, and a lot of the important players who were injured and unavailable to me during the first half of the season have come back and are playing well. You need those big players,'' he said. ''I was unlucky that Orlando Engelaar got injured before the season, that Harry Kewell wasn't available for most of my time and that somebody like Jonatan Germano, who plays with a lot of aggression, was also injured.'' The Manchester City takeover came after Aloisi left the club, but he is hopeful that Heart's links with the Sky Blues - and his good relationship with the club's hierarchy - could provide him with a link to City when he and Foxe are in Europe. ''If we could get the chance to go there and see them first-hand it would be great, too,'' said the former Socceroos striker who will always be remembered for scoring the goal that took Australia to the World Cup in Germany eight years ago.

While most expect City to cull the Heart playing list, Aloisi believes veteran Kewell still has something to offer - if he wants to continue playing. ''Of course he's not the player he was when he was younger, but Harry gave us a lot I felt, and now he is getting back to fitness you can see that he still has something. He still has an eye for a pass.''