Rober turns down Hearts manager position

(CNN) -- German Jurgen Rober has joined the list of coaches who have decided not to join Scottish Premier League club Hearts.

Rober, who took Hertha Berlin from the German Second Division in to the Champions League, met the Edinburgh club's owner Vladimir Romanov in Lithuania but, like Motherwell's Mark McGhee and Slovakian Vladimir Weiss, has declined to move to Tynecastle.

"We had a really interesting meeting and I was impressed with Mr. Romanov," the 54-year-old former Stuttgart, Partizan Belgrade and Borussia Dortmund manager said.

"He has some good ideas for the club but the trouble was I have my opinions on how to coach and he has his ideas. Unfortunately these ideas would not come together.

"He has different ideas on how to move a club forward. He is a businessman and I understand why he wants what he wants, but I have been 35 years in professional football.

"Don't get me wrong, I am not saying anything bad about Mr. Romanov and as I said, I was impressed by him. But I had this feeling that we couldn't come together."

Hearts, who slumped to eighth in the Premier League last season under caretaker manager Stephen Frail, announced in January that they were on the lookout for a new manager.

Since Romanov bought a majority stake in the club in 2005, John Robertson, George Burley, Graham Rix and Valdas Ivanauskas have all had spells in charge.