THE AWAY CHANGING ROOM DOOR at Easter Road was knocked off its hinges on Saturday by an irate Terry Butcher, but it seems that the main exit door is in danger of being unhinged by the stampede out of the club this week!  It's not all one-way traffic of course as Bobby Williamson continues to bring in players on trial, the Hibs boss taking advantage of the final weeks of the season to have a closer look at possible signing targets.  The latest new face at the club is apparently Georgian international defender Edik Sajaia, available as many hundreds of professionals are this summer under freedom of contract.  The interest in Sajaia underlines just how far and wide the Hibs boss is prepared to cast his net in search of a new first team squad for next season, and the truth of it is he needs to as the Easter Road budget is not one that will stretch perhaps to the likes of Stephen Glass, understood to be on the Hibs shopping list but not prepared to drop his wage demands to a level affordable by Hibs or indeed anyone else in the SPL it would appear.

Sajaia looks a likely prospect according to what little information is available on the 22-year-old.  Three seasons in his native Georgia with Tblisi saw Sajaia make 58 appearances, before moving on loan to Torpedo Moscow last season.  He has collected five international caps along the way and is considered a regular now for the international squad while his defensive capabilities are not so highly rated.  All the same playing alongside the likes of better known names here in Scotland such as Giorgi Nemsadze (himself a one-time Hibernian trialist), Shota Arveladze and Giorgi Kinkladze makes pretty good reading on any footballer's CV, so Hibs fans will be hoping that Williamson has unearthed a similar talent.

Edik Sajaia - on trial

The growing list of departures form the club continued to build last night with the news that youngsters David Proctor, Ryan Harding, Calvin Shand and Darren Thomson had all been released.  In addition Hibs.net understands that others will follow including Alan Dempsie and Paul Hilland, both players who flirted with the first team squad in the last year.  Senior players already looking for alternate employment next season are attracting interest with Nick Colgan linked with a possible move to Italian football, while John O'Neil is still looking south.  Mixu Paatelainen is so far the only player to have attracted any solid offers however, with both Falkirk and St Johnstone chasing the veteran striker and the Saints still favourites to secure his signature as they seek promotion form the first division next season.

One player who will not be going anywhere just yet is Mathias Doumbe.  The French defender who has established himself as a vital part of the Easter Road defence in recent months has accepted a new one-year deal.  Doumbe revealed to Hibs.net on Saturday that the offer had been made and he did not visualise any problems and appears to have been true to his word, Bobby Williamson however is still waiting on a decision from Gary Smith who has also been offered a one-year deal.  Joining Doumbe in the squad next season will be 20-year-old Stephen Dobbie.  The Rangers striker has been training at Easter Road and managing director Rod Petrie confirmed last night that a pre-contract deal had been reached with Dobbie, who will leave Rangers at the end of the season.  And Petrie moved to assure Hibs fans that the inexperienced Dobbie was not typical of the type of player that would be brought in to the club, he said: "This is a young player freed by another SPL club and is therefore an opportunistic signing and should not be seen as the template for everything that is being done here. There will be other more experienced players coming to the club as well."