Luque Short-Changed? Get Away!
By Nu Mad
Updated Sunday, 3rd June 2007
When history recalls the players who have short-changed Newcastle United with lack of effort for every pound note paid ... Albert Luque will be in the top three.
However, the Newcastle misfit claims his former club Deportivo La Coruna have done the same to him.
The Spanish striker is set to begin a season-long loan spell at PSV Eindhoven, and is about to take Deportivo to a civil court for 2.1 million Euros (£1.4 million) he claims they owe him.
Luque insists he is owed the money from the transfer fee paid by United for him in August 2005.
Luque: "The Deportivo president, Augusto Cesar Lendoiro, told me the transfer was 14 million Euros, so I have the right to 2.1 million Euros.
"I have tried to contact Lendoiro many times about this, but it was impossible. In August 2006, I sent a fax to the club claiming my money, and never had an answer."
