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發表於 2005-8-20 21:43:47
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United to get Luque
Chairman Freddy Shepherd burned the midnight oil last night as Newcastle United moved closer to completing the signing of Albert Luque from Deportivo La Coruna.
And the news from Spain's influential newspaper Marca today was that the two clubs were "very close" to an agreement for the 27-year-old Spanish international who says he would love to line up alongside Alan Shearer in a black-and-white shirt.
Indeed, my information is that United's offer on the table at the Riazor Stadium is 7.5m, just 500,000 short of La Coruna's valuation of their prize asset.
And United know that once they can agree a fee with La Coruna then Luque already has his bags packed ready to fly to Newcastle.
For the Chronicle can reveal that Luque has already told United he is happy with the financial terms they have offered him and he is ready to sign a five-year contract at St James' Park.
Luque has also informed them that one of the reasons he wants to join United is so he can line up alongside Shearer in the legendary skipper's last season in United's No 9 shirt.
Luque said: "English football is excellent and I have no doubt that I could play in the Premiership. My character will suit English football and the supporters will be happy with my style and the goals I would score."
United have heard from Spain that La Coruna are close to finding a replacement for Luque and certainly the feeling at St James' Park is that they can have everything tied up early next week.
This would then leave them with a bit of a rush job to get Luque's international clearance so that he could go into the squad for Wednesday's game with Bolton Wanderers at the Reebok Stadium.
Ironically, that game was put back 24 hours from the Tuesday because Bolton are in Premiership action tomorrow and this may actually benefit United as far as Luque is concerned.
If the Luque deal does go through, it will be a huge relief to United after they missed out on Luis Boa Morte, Nicolas Anelka and Michael Owen.
United officials realise their fans have been disappointed that a quality striker has not been signed, something that was shown by the fact that the attendance was expected to be marginally short of capacity for today's game with West Ham at St James' Park - and that there is still a small number of season tickets for sale.
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