Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £80m
Nothing good will ever come of this.
Emiliano Sala
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Nothing good will ever come of this.
Billysgingham.
Player Valuation: £40m
Why didnt they just pay the fee and let the lad rest in peace.
Colossal lack of dignity and respect for the dead. It must cut his family each time his name crops up in the news during this sordid episode. It's them I feel for. Let them grieve with dignity.
I’m going to hell for laughing at that
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £80m
Because it was a lot of money. That's why.
Billysgingham.
Player Valuation: £40m
No mate not really.
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £80m
Would they be quibbling over 15000? But put it in the millions and believe you can weasel out of it and Cardiff went down that route.
Money is what matters to Cardiff and Lille here. A very unedifying process which can only cause anguish to Sala's friends or family.
Billysgingham.
Player Valuation: £40m
Thats why I said Cardiff should have paid up and let it rest.
Are we effectively discovering the price of one human life here then?
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £80m
Cardiff and Lille are still arguing over the price of the transfer.
Cookmysock
Player Valuation: £1.5m
dosent anybody involved in this have some sort of insurance the club's agent player himself even, the owner or pilot of the plane
What's Lille got to do with it?
They agreed the price, Cardiff are trying to get out of the deal on a technicality.
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
The insurance company is not going to pay up, the flight was illegal in at least 2 ways. It will be interesting to see what comes out in all this as seeing Cardiff are being this forceful there must be some evidence we are not privy to.
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It’s not really a technicality if he wasn’t a Cardiff City player at the time. That’s their case, whether or not it has merit, we aren’t privy to and will be ultimately decided by the Swiss courts later this yearI believe.
I don’t think it’s disrespectful, or at least it’s no more disrespectful than Nantes demanding the fee be paid.
It’s a tragic situation and there isn’t precedent for this before in Sport so everyone is learning as they go along. Nobody truly ‘wins’ in this case but it’s certainly a battle that >matters<.
Just from a black and white, emotionless P&L perspective, to pay £15m for an asset that immediately became worth £0, could well negatively shape Cardiff City’s immediate and mid-term future as a Football club. Probably the same for Nantes. Thousands of people’s jobs hinge on that, so it’s certainly important that an agreeable financial settlement is reached.
Why are Lille arguing? Didn’t he play for FC Nantes?
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