Luque LOSES Court Battle With Newcastle!
Last updated : 20 February 2008 By Footy Mad - Editor
He wanted Newcastle United to cough up £1.6 million but in the end Luque will still get his money ... but not from the Magpies ... a Spanish court declared.
Luque cost Newcastle £10m when he moved from Deportivo La Coruna in 2005.
However, as part of his contract with Deportivo, the player claimed he was owed 15 per cent of the fee.
Judge Manuel Carballo Garcia found for Luque but decreed that Deportivo would meet the cost.
Luque started only six Premier League games in two years with Newcastle.
He is now at Ajax in Amsterdam, but they are well behind PSV Eindhoven in the league battle, and have a major crisis at the club.
Johan Cruyff is to return to Ajax in a technical role after the club announced the board are to stand down.
The Amsterdammers are to instigate a new management structure following the release of a report this week which criticised the running of the club over the last decade.
An Ajax statement read: "The current board, which consists of chairman John Jaakke, technical board member Hennie Henrichs and financial board member Joop Saan, are of the opinion that the new structure needs new people to implement it.
"That's why the board have announced that they will step down as soon as the new structure of the club is ready and the people are in place.
"That will be the case before the end of the current season."