Hearts loanee Garang Kuol has been told to keep his head up by Australia boss Graham Arnold after including the Socceroos wonderkid in his squad despite his lack of opportunities at Tynecastle.
The on-loan Newcastle United starlet has made just one league start since arriving in Gorgie in a blaze of publicity in January.
Kuol's only starting XI appearance was in a 3-0 home defeat to Rangers at the start of last month and he's been reduced to a series of cameo sub run-outs since by boss Robbie Neilson.
But Arnold - who included Hearts' teammates Nathaniel Atkinson, Kye Rowles and Cammy Devlin as well as Celtic's Aaron Mooy, St Mirren's Keanu Baccus and Dundee United's Aziz Behich - has urged Kuol to be patient.
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