Glenn Whelan feels that his treatment by Hearts has been 'amateurish' after his contract was cancelled by the Scottish club on Monday.
The Ireland international had made 17 appearances for the club in the first half of the season but was frozen out of the club by new manager Daniel Stendel and was sent an email asking him to leave.
The 35-year-old, who was signed to a one-year deal, is disappointed that nobody in the club had the 'decency' to speak to him.
"They call themselves a professional football club, but I never heard anything from anyone at Hearts," he told the Irish Independent.
"On Monday night, I got an email from someone at the club with the contract details, asking me to sign so we could go our separate ways. I didn't ask for any money, I was happy to just go. But it was all very amateurish from their side.
"New managers can come in with new ideas, that’s football, but to be let down the way I was and be treated the way I was, with no one at Hearts having the decency to speak to me or give me a call, that’s disappointing.
"I do feel let down. The way my name is out there now it feels like I have been thrown under a bus.
"There are a lot of players at Hearts who have not been fit, I have tried my best with the quality that is around us and if that wasn't good enough, it was certainly not my fault."
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