The fatal accident of Emiliano Sala on January 21, 2019 at English Channel shook the football world. The Argentine striker, who was 28 years old, had been transferred to Cardiff Citya Welsh team that currently plays in the Championship of England, from Nantes. After saying goodbye to his colleagues in France, He boarded a small plane heading to British lands, But I never arrive.
The aircraft crashed in the English Channel and ended the lives of the Santa Fe soccer player and the pilot who was carrying him. Five years after the accident, Cardiff City is demanding a sum of 120 million euros to the French team as compensation for having been relegated from the Premier League to the second category.
The Welsh hired a company called Analytics FC specialized in “football data”. The data collected by the company showed that according to possible goals from Sala and the expected points the team would have been saved from relegation.
According to the French newspaper The teamthe report states that if the Argentine had played 60 percent of the games until the end of the season, they would have maintained the category. The claim will be filed before the Commercial Court from Nantes.
Nantes initiated proceedings in the same case against Cardiff. From the French club they indicated that they were victims of “moral damage” and They demanded that the Welsh team pay a fine. In 2023, the FIFA had decided that the transfer had been completed and, therefore, the British club had to pay him the 17 million agreed for the transfer
In Cardiff, however, they hold the Nantes for Sala’s private flight and claimed that the signing was never made. The Bluebirds They not only seek to recover the money they had put in for the player but much more. The former Bordeaux player was going to sign a contract for three and a half years.
Cardiff demands a million-dollar sum from Nantes. Photo: REUTERS.
“If Sala had been able to play, inevitably would have scored goals between January and June 2019 and Cardiff would have remained in the top flight. It would be unrealistic to think that he would not have scored a goal,” said Cardiff City’s lawyer, Celine Jones, at a hearing in June 2023.
In the season 2018-2019 Cardiff finished 18th in the standings with 34 points. He was two units away from the 36 of Brighton, which was the last team to escape relegation. That season they won 10 games, drew four and lost 24 with 34 goals for and 69 against.
Since their fall to the second division of English football they have not been able to get promoted, they have five seasons fighting to return to the top flight of English football. He is currently 11th, 29 points behind. Leicester which is leading. The most likely thing is that Cardiff’s demand for Nantes will come to nothing.
With agency information
2024-04-22 17:21:43
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