Former loan player Stewart in legal battle with Leeds

Last updated : 22 April 2015 By Tony Scholes

Stewart joined Leeds in a loan deal from Hull in January 2014 for the remainder of last season with a guaranteed three year contract to follow once his contract at Hull came to an end that summer.

Everything was in order until the paperwork was submitted by Leeds to the Football League who returned it  because the authorised signatures were no longer valid, having been signed by David Haigh who had left the club just before the end of the season after a bust up with owner Massimo Cellino.

According to reports in the Daily Star, Cellino refused to re-sign the contract and declared it invalid, leaving Stewart with no club. He later joined Ipswich from where he is now on loan at Barnsley.

Stewart, who made just two starts and seven substitute appearances for the Clarets, claims Leeds owe him £800,000 which is the difference in the wages he is now earning to those he would have been earning at Elland Road. Cellino is challenging the claim.

It's the latest news for a club that recently suspended assistant manager Steve Thompson and had six players pull out of last Saturday's game with injuries although according to the dad of Marco Silvestre, one of the injured players, only he and one other were injured with the other four staging what he called a stupid protest.