Cardiff previously refused to pay Nantes anything. Now it thinks that compensation should be paid to it.
Emiliano Sala died in January 2019 when the small plane carrying him fell into the sea. EPA / AOP
The football club Cardiff City demands 110 million euros from the French club Nantes as compensation for the person who died in a plane crash in January 2019 From Emiliano Sala.
Sala, 28, was acquired in January 2019 to strengthen Cardiff, who played in the Premier League at the time, from the French Nantes with a transfer fee of 15 million euros.
Sala died on the way to his new club when the small plane carrying him fell into the sea between France and England. The wreckage of the plane and Sala’s body were not found until weeks later. The plane’s pilot also died in the accident.
while the football world mourned Sala’s fate, an ugly dispute over money developed between Cardiff’s Nantes. Cardiff refused to pay a transfer fee of 15 million for a player they never got. The club was later denied player deals completely. The restriction is still valid.
Cardiff was relegated from the Premier League in the spring of 2019. Now the club is seeking compensation for the financial disadvantages brought about by that and the player trade ban at the expense of Nantes.
– We bought a young man at the peak of his career, the chairman of Cardiff Mehmet Dalman tells the BBC.
– Someone put him without our knowledge on a plane that is not suitable for the mission at a very dangerous time. As a result, two people unfortunately lost their lives.
According to investigative reports, the accident that claimed Sala’s life could have been caused by exhaust gases that penetrated the plane’s cockpit and stunned the pilot. The pilot has also been found to have been unfit for flight duty.
According to Dalman, the club is now seeking justice from Nantes.
– I don’t understand why we are accused of being greedy, Dalman wonders.