Thompson hits out at SFA

Dundee United chairman Stephen Thompson claims the Tannadice club have been treated "shabbily" by the Scottish Football Association in their bid to recruit Craig Levein as Scotland manager.

The United boss held "positive discussions" with the SFA on Monday and then met with Thompson on Tuesday morning to indicate his wish to become national manager.

It was thought that Levein's appointment would be confirmed on Tuesday but Thompson insists he has heard nothing from the governing body, whom he claims have acted "disgracefully" in their handling of the negotiations.

"We have not received any offer of compensation by fax, email, letter or anything else," Thompson told BBC Scotland.

"We are a member club and deserve to be treated with a bit more respect in this matter. We have been treated shabbily."

However, Levein is not anticipating any problems with the move.

"I had a meeting last night with some members of the SFA," he told BBC Scotland on Tuesday. "It went reasonably well. It was about an hour long. It's impossible to get everything sorted in an hour, so those talks are ongoing without me.

"Everything should be resolved later on today or tomorrow morning one way or the other. I can tell you that I was pleased with the way the discussions went and that's important.

"It's important for me to learn just what the job entailed and what I learned from the members of the SFA was fairly encouraging.

"If I do leave Dundee United then I'm quite happy to give you my feelings from the heart about what's happened at this football club, but at this minute in time I'm still the manager, so there's no point in it."