Harte: “I took a drop in salary to go to a club I’d never heard of.”

Ian Harte fears he has slipped off Brian Kerr’s radar since the move to Levante in Spain - but there are compensations. Liam Mackey reports.

IAN HARTE’S club career may have followed the sun but at international level he remains out in the cold - and he’s not happy about it.

The former Leeds United player now plays for La Liga surprise package Levante, with whom he will take on the wounded galacticos of Real Madrid in the Bernabeu on Sunday night. Currently seventh in the table, the second club in the city of Valencia have enjoyed their return to the Spanish top-flight, with full-back Harte an ever-present since scoring the club’s first goal in La Liga for 41 years on his debut against Real Sociedad.