LIVINGSTON'S new owners will unveil the club's new manager at a media conference this morning and it is anticipated one of their compatriots will be handed the position.
Rome-based lawyer Angelo Massone and Glasgow-based agent Tomasso Angelini acquired the West Lothian club from previous owner Pearse Flynn on Monday and dismissed the existing management team of Mark Proctor and Curtis Fleming the following day.
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t is understood an Italian coach has been recruited to head the new backroom staff at Livingston where there will also be a place for the club's former manager Davie Hay who is Angelini's father-in-law.
Hay's vast experience will be utilised in a consultancy role as the incoming regime attempt to plot a path back to the Scottish Premier League for Livingston who have spent the last two seasons in the First Division.
Their first task will be to overturn the signing embargo imposed on the club by the Scottish Football League for Flynn's failure to settle a contractual dispute with former captain Emmanuel Dorado.
It is believed the new owners intend to import some Italian players to the first team squad but will be unable to do so until the impasse with Dorado is resolved.
"The signing embargo is still in place and won't be lifted until we have documented evidence that the club has settled with Dorado," revealed an SFL spokesman.
Dorado, now retired, is claiming the full £50,000 he's due for the remaining year of his contract.
The new Livingston manager will have just 18 registered players to work with, more than half of them aged between 16 and 19.
• Long-serving Stirling Albion chairman Peter McKenzie has officially announced his desire to step down from his role with the Forthbank club. McKenzie, who is also guarantor for the club, has made his majority shareholding available for sale.
Last year McKenzie was approached to relinquish control by a group of businessmen but the deal feel through.
"I am hoping someone will come forward and invest serious money into Stirling to take the club forward," he said.
Meanwhile, former Stirling striker Derek Lilley is in talks with Forfar Athletic manager Dick Campbell after being released by the Forthbank club.
Campbell has stepped up his recruitment drive at Station Park with the capture of former Berwick and Brechin midfielder Kevin McLeish and former Clyde, Partick and Stranraer player Pat Keogh.
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