All the tears.
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Player Emiliano Sala
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All the tears.
This really gets me. My Labrador is almost obsessed with me and I don’t know how he would deal if someday out of the blue I disappeared from his life. I know that it sounds silly but the love of a dog it’s really hard to explain
I know exactly what you mean. You’re their everything.
But he'd still be alive and in their team if the transfer hadn't gone through. The transfer was completed and, as a direct result of that, he boarded the plane that killed him.
It is harsh and it's a very sensitive time, but it's probably a lot of money to them
I suspect that Cardiff witholding payment" until they are satisfied with the paperwork" is seeing if they can get out of it as well. IMO neither club comes out of this spat well.
Ask me, they should both give 7.5 million to his family
Exactly what I was thinking. Give the cash to the family. It would be a great gesture from teams, but won’t happen.
A bit rude.
Dat business model, tho.
They should either meet in the middle, donate to a charity of the families choice or pay the family. They won’t, though.
I'm sure they are hardly struggling....... that poor dog is hardly looking out onto a council estate.
Set something up in the guys name in nantas and cardiff......... Yes its not my money either.
Wouldn't Cardiff have insurance?
You’d think so, but these are the same group of people collectively that put him in an allegedly rickety plane.
Cardiff have to pay up but colour me entirely unsurprised if they try their hardest to get out of it, what with them being a horrible football club run by a total shyster. Bordeaux are entitled to 50% of the transfer fee so it's not like Nantes are just being cunts for the sake of it. What happened is obviously a terrible tragedy but that doesn't mean Cardiff can just expect everyone to conveniently forget about the £15million.
Cardiff didn't do that. IIRC, Cardiff arranged a commercial seat. The agent said no "15m players don't fly commercial", and arranged his private pilot to fly Sala. That pilot then backed out and arranged for Dave Ibbotson, a much less experienced pilot without an instrument rating. This boils down to the pilots.
Good shouts. Even more than the clubs, with some of the stories having emerged, the agents who took their dirty money off the deal, should donate that part back to the family or charity. If they want to improve their own or agents' rep in the public eye just a wee bit. Especially McKay, given his involvement with the flight.
Snowball's chance in hell though
ochsulk:
Snowball's chance in hell though
ochsulk:IIRC from what I've read, it was more, that Sala felt, he didn't have sufficient time to tie up loose ends, and to his credit say his goodbyes to people in Nantes who meant a lot to him. With a tight timeframe and commercial planes from Nantes to Cardiff not exactly being straightforward. So the McKay's "helped" out.
If I ran a football team I wouldn't be paying 15 million for a corpse if I could get out of it, rightly or wrongly Cardiff are doing what most people would do.
Cardiff has to at least pay the base installment of the fee. That part is signed off on and the paperwork is legal. But they should not have to pay any of the future installment that are based on things like appearances, goals, Cardiff staying up etc.
Also Cardiff should be getting roughly 16 million in insurance money since he was officially a Cardiff player
Also Cardiff should be getting roughly 16 million in insurance money since he was officially a Cardiff player