article_snippet.sent: Gary Locke will be confirmed as Kilmarnock’s permanent manager on Friday - exactly eight weeks after Gary Locke was asked to take charge until the end of the season.
article_snippet.sent: An announcement will be made by The club on Friday morning, with Kilmarnock boss being given a three-year deal.
article_snippet.sent: Kilmarnock will confirm Gary Locke as The club's new permanent manager on Friday .
article_snippet.sent: Ex-Killie and Hearts player Locke, who was crestfallen not to be retained by the Tynecastle club as head coach after they were relegated last season, added:
article_snippet.sent: ’ Locke, who returned to Rugby Park last summer, had been working as No 2 under Johnston when the manager announced in February that the manager would be leaving the club at the end of the season, indicating that the £150,000 sale of teenage forward Robbie Muirhead to Dundee United had been a factor in the manager decision.
article_snippet.sent: After Johnston was immediately relieved of Johnston duties by the club hierarchy, assistant Locke was put in charge and was initially regarded as a stop-gap appointment.
article_snippet.sent: assistant Locke has impressed Mann not only with results but with the way assistant Locke has conducted assistant Locke during assistant Locke two months at the helm.
article_snippet.sent: Kilmarnock was expected that assistant Locke would have been appointed permanently before now, but assistant Locke dismissed reports that talks had stalled due to a clause that would see assistant Locke sacked if the club failed to achieve a top-six finish this season.
article_snippet.sent: n’t foresee any problems,’ assistant Locke said.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Having resolved Locke own situation, Locke will next week turn Locke attention to the futures of nine first-team players at Kilmarnock — Manuel Pascali, Alexei Eremenko, Craig Slater, Craig Samson, Sammy Clingan, Greg Kiltie, Conor Brennan, Chris Chantler and Mark O’Hara — who will become free agents this summer.
highlights_snippet.sent: Gary Locke will be confirmed as Kilmarnock boss on Friday .
  