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Cardiff City 'want Nantes to pay £80MILLION in compensation

Cardiff City 'want Nantes to pay £80MILLION in compensation after claiming Emiliano Sala's death in plane crash led to their relegation from the Premier League'

If this is true, hard to prove (if not in poor taste - didn't his sister commit suicide?) that relegation was due to a new player not playing for you?

That said, I think we might have avoided relegation if LT had honoured his contract, but he was an existing player, so easier to assess the contribution he had and therefore would have made

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  • I doubt they have much hope of getting that. They're going to try and practically bankrupt a mid-table French side based on what evidence? I'm sure any solicitor will argue a case has to be based on facts, not what could've happened.

    Ok they may have stayed up if he arrived (they went down by 2 points), but equally he may have been shit or got injured in his first game.
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    edited April 2022
    Not sure if I even have the facts right on this, but the last time I read anything about this (a lng while back) I thought it was the Cardiff chairman who was desperate for the player to get on a dodgy airplane and fly to Cardiff at all costs to sign, If that was the case (and I'm hazy on the details) that case looks incredibly unlikely.

    ***Just backchecked a little, and can't see anything regarding Cardiff pressuring for the player to get to Cardiff as soon as possible so maybe not the case. Whatever, I don't see much value in this case.
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,844
    That won't stand up in court, at all. 
  • Pointless and in poor taste. Just accept what happened, move on and leave the family to grieve rather than raking this up.  
  • Cardiff City 'want Nantes to pay £80MILLION in compensation after claiming Emiliano Sala's death in plane crash led to their relegation from the Premier League'

    If this is true, hard to prove (if not in poor taste - didn't his sister commit suicide?) that relegation was due to a new player not playing for you?

    That said, I think we might have avoided relegation if LT had honoured his contract, but he was an existing player, so easier to assess the contribution he had and therefore would have made
    That would be hilarious, sue him for breach of contract and associated losses due to relegation.

    Although I agree, wouldn't stand up and isn't a good look, even more so in Cardiff's case.
  • Why has it taken Cardiff so long to request this compensation claim?
  • Why has it taken Cardiff so long to request this compensation claim?
    Parachute payments ending or ended?
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,312
    Why has it taken Cardiff so long to request this compensation claim?
    Parachute payments ending or ended?
    I am extremely trying to not make a joke here 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,312
    Anyway, this is ludicrous from Cardiff obviously 
  • The way I see it is that if you consider a player “yours” then you protect that investment by taking out insurance for accidents and death. That would in my opinion include insuring against the player not being able to sign after an agreement is reached. I think they have no case against Nantes whatsoever. I would go as far as to say the claim is actually distasteful.
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  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,143
    Disgraceful. There is only one person in this saga who should be sued, and that’s Willie McKay
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,116
    The way I see it is that if you consider a player “yours” then you protect that investment by taking out insurance for accidents and death. That would in my opinion include insuring against the player not being able to sign after an agreement is reached. I think they have no case against Nantes whatsoever. I would go as far as to say the claim is actually distasteful.
    He wasn’t there’s, which is why the refused to pay the transfer fee. 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,841
    Very surprising - not as if Vincent Tan likes to court controversy!
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,615

    Cardiff City 'want Nantes to pay £80MILLION in compensation after claiming Emiliano Sala's death in plane crash led to their relegation from the Premier League'

    If this is true, hard to prove (if not in poor taste - didn't his sister commit suicide?) that relegation was due to a new player not playing for you?

    That said, I think we might have avoided relegation if LT had honoured his contract, but he was an existing player, so easier to assess the contribution he had and therefore would have made
    That would be hilarious, sue him for breach of contract and associated losses due to relegation.

    Although I agree, wouldn't stand up and isn't a good look, even more so in Cardiff's case.
    being serious for a moment that's exactly what I would have done...........or at least  threatened Taylor that's what I would do. Can you imagine an electrician or chippy leaving one employer to join another & saying to their old boss "sorry, I'm not coming in to see out my contract because I'm afraid I might injure my hand during my month's notice period, and then I'll not be able to work for the next couple of months, so I'll just sit at home instead". 
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    It's disgusting this whole thing is even still going on. 
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,958
    Maybe we should sue Lyle Taylor.
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,442

    Cardiff City has been ordered to pay Nantes the transfer balance for Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash before he could play for the Welsh side.

    The BBC has been told that Fifa has told the Championship club to pay more than €11m (£9.45m).

    That covers the last two instalments of the €17m agreed between the clubs.

    Meanwhile, French prosecutors have confirmed several employees of FC Nantes have been arrested.

    That is as part of an investigation into money laundering and tax fraud.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66071830

  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,135
    Cardiff need to pay up and stop flailing around and behaving like total idiots.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    Blucher said:
    Cardiff need to pay up and stop flailing around and behaving like total idiots.
    Too late
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,348
    class bunch of Welsh pricks!