MORGARO GOMIS believes Hearts will be an easy sell to any prospective signing over the summer.

The midfielder claimed it took 10 minutes for Craig Levein to persuade him to play in the second tier of Scottish football at a time when the Edinburgh club had spent years giving basket cases a bad name.

The relationship between Gomis and Levein helped - they worked together at Dundee United - and the Senegal man wanted to remain in Scotland. But not everyone would have accepted a deal last mid-season such were the uncertainties that still engulfed Gorgie.

Levein, Hearts' director of football, has another busy summer ahead of him. Danny Wilson is just one of what may turn out to be a number of players who will leave. All have to be replaced.

Gomis, though, does not think this will be an insurmountable problem.

He said: "I think it's going to be easy to bring in players because Hearts is a big club. If you take it outside the Old Firm, Hearts are probably the third or fourth biggest club in Scotland.

"Edinburgh is a beautiful city, we've got a great stadium, we've got everything - the training facilities are great.

"It wasn't hard for me to sign for Hearts, even though they were in the second league. It's a big club and I knew we weren't going to stay in that division long. I knew we would compete and we won the league, so I'm happy with that and I'm ready to go next season."

It will be interesting to see how Hearts fare when it all gets going again in August.

They have been head and shoulders above Rangers and Hibernian and if Robbie Neilson can more or less keep his squad together, they could well be a top six side next season, or at least challenge for such a lofty position.

Gomis, a nominee for PFA Scotland's SPFL Championship Player of the Year, said: "I think we are Premiership-ready team. Obviously, it will be harder because all the teams are full-time. But I think we will be ready. If we kept the same team for next season I think we would probably do well.

"A few of the boys are leaving and we don't know who's going to come in. But, hopefully, the club can try to get some good players in and take it from there.

"Danny will be a big loss. The club will have to find someone as good as him and that won't be easy, because Danny is a big player for us.

"It's sad for us to know he's leaving, but that's football. Players come and go and you just have to get on with it and see what happens."

The job Neilson has done is worthy of great praise. Of course, he's been helped by the people upstairs who have fixed a broken football club, however, nobody expected Hearts to dominate as they have done.

Gomis said: "For me, he should be manager of the year. He's done a great job, he's a great manager and, hopefully, he can carry on doing what he's doing just now. He's very calm. When you speak to him he knows what he wants."