FC Nantes demands that Cardiff City 17 million to pay for Sala

Foreign Football FC Nantes, demanding that Cardiff City for the transfer fee of 17 million euros for Emiliano Sala pay. If that doesn't happen, get the French first division to the court. That, reports the BBC.

Emiliano Sala disappeared over two weeks ago when he privévliegtuigje the Channel crossed. The Argentine striker had just signed for Cardiff City that left him for 17 million euros binnenhaalde, a clubrecord. After he signed, returned, Sala returned to Nantes for his former team mates adieu to say. On the return to Cardiff went wrong. The airplane with Sala disappeared from the radar. The first searches yielded nothing. The Piper Malibu, which in addition to Sala also pilot Dave Ibbotson was, it was not until last Sunday discovered on the seabed. A day later came the news that the plane was a body to see, turns out to be that of Sala.

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Cardiff City paid the transfer fee of 17 million euros for Sala until further notice. The Welsh club says it is investigating the circumstances of the plane crash to want to wait and see, before they money on the table. The club wants to know why Sala for a privévliegtuigje chose, and no commercial flight took. Who is the owner of the doomed plane, how about the insurance: these are questions where Cardiff City first to answer want. An explanation where FC Nantes, however, no longer peace of mind. The French club is demanding that Cardiff City within the ten days a first tranche of the transfer fee debt repayments. If not, follow the legal steps.

In a comment leave Cardiff City know “surprised” about the question of Nantes, “at a time when rescue workers try a body from the wreckage of the plane to the mountains”. The Welsh club says get ready for a legal battle. “We have top lawyers put to work, which assure us that we are right in our shoes”, Cardiff City are strong.

Cardiff City would be two letters have received of Nantes, which to the payment of a first instalment of the transfer fee being asked. One letter came last week Friday in Wales, the other today. The full amount of 17 million would be in three instalments to be paid over a period of three years.