Sala Case to be Heard in September According to Sky Sports

Cardiff's lawsuit over Sala transfer to start in September

Exclusive from Sky Sports News' Amar Mehta:


"Cardiff City's lawsuit against Nantes will be heard in September, Sky Sports News has learnt.

The dispute relates to the transfer of Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash in January 2019 while travelling to Cardiff ahead of a £15m move. The Welsh club sued Nantes for over £100m in 2023. The case will be heard in a French court after a hearing took place on Monday to list the case.

The case will start on September 22.

Sky Sports News has approached Cardiff City and Nantes for comment."

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I know. It's shocking.

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Sala was signed in a bid to keep the club in the Premier League. Kind of ironic that City may be in League One by the time this latest court case kicks off.

Why not add a championship relegation claim

I still can’t see why Nantes are liable for dodgy agents…

I hope Tan’s relentless pursuit goes south. It’s just a lame attempt at money grabbing.

I don’t believe we would have stayed up. He could have been injured after a game so I don’t know how these ‘his signing would have saved us’ can be taken serious.

Sorry Sala, respectfully, you should not be involved in these type of games.

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Sala was signed in a bid to keep the club in the Premier League. Kind of ironic that City may be in League One by the time this latest court case kicks off.

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It's ridiculous that in the time this case has taken to come to trial a club could have had 3 promotions and 3 relegations.

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Originally Posted by Porth Pouncer

I still can’t see why Nantes are liable for dodgy agents…

I hope Tan’s relentless pursuit goes south. It’s just a lame attempt at money grabbing.

I don’t believe we would have stayed up. He could have been injured after a game so I don’t know how these ‘his signing would have saved us’ can be taken serious.

Sorry Sala, respectfully, you should not be involved in these type of games.

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I think its City's case that he, allegedly, was working on behalf of Nantes. I also believe that if that is the case then under French law the club would be liable.

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There's not a snowball's chance in hell that we'll get £100 million - most of which is deemed "consequential losses" which are never covered.

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I wouldn't be surprised

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Knowing Tan, he's probably got claims against our squad where he'll sue them for not keeping us in the Championship.

I sometimes wonder if Tan has built his fortune solely on successful lawsuits rather than even a modicum of business acumen.

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Knowing Tan, he's probably got claims against our squad where he'll sue them for not keeping us in the Championship.

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Easy defence, how are they supposed to try and keep a club out without a capable Manager?

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I wouldn't be surprised

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Probably will but easy to defend that, with his Manager appointments since Warnock.

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Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue

Probably will but easy to defend that, with his Manager appointments since Warnock.

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Since Mackay you mean. Neil Harris is the second best manager we've had since Malky left :facepalm:

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Since Mackay you mean. Neil Harris is the second best manager we've had since Malky left :facepalm:

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He's average the rest have been crap.

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Originally Posted by Porth Pouncer

I still can’t see why Nantes are liable for dodgy agents…

I hope Tan’s relentless pursuit goes south. It’s just a lame attempt at money grabbing.

I don’t believe we would have stayed up. He could have been injured after a game so I don’t know how these ‘his signing would have saved us’ can be taken serious.

Sorry Sala, respectfully, you should not be involved in these type of games.

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I can kind of see Tan's point of view - I don't think it's a lame attempt at money grabbing.

in His eyes we did nothing wrong - the French club arranged for the poor guy to be put on a death trap, and they have faced no consequences for it.
They then complained to FIFA that we hadn't paid them for the transfer fee, and got us placed under a transfer embargo, despite the fact there were on-going court cases at the time.

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He's average the rest have been crap.

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I think something like 50% of all the managers in the football league + premier league have been in their current job for less than 12 months.

There must be a lot of crap managers out there if 50% of them are getting sacked each year.

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I think something like 50% of all the managers in the football league + premier league have been in their current job for less than 12 months.

There must be a lot of crap managers out there if 50% of them are getting sacked each year.

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Yes a lot of pressure, I think it's just that when one starts to fail, it's usually better to get a new voice, and it usually leads to an uplift, if we'd changed again a few weeks ago we would have been fine, with an experienced Manager, we made a costly mistake.

It mostly works, Lamouchi saved us.

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I can kind of see Tan's point of view - I don't think it's a lame attempt at money grabbing.

in His eyes we did nothing wrong - the French club arranged for the poor guy to be put on a death trap, and they have faced no consequences for it.
They then complained to FIFA that we hadn't paid them for the transfer fee, and got us placed under a transfer embargo, despite the fact there were on-going court cases at the time.

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I agree. The money at stake is a part of it, but the biggest issue is Tan's enormous sense of grievance.

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A dodgy agent employed by the French club arranged for the poor guy to be put on a death trap - that's the same dodgy agent Cardiff City were perfectly content to deal with at that stage, and the same dodgy agent whose two talentless sons had been given playing contracts by Cardiff City under mysterious circumstances....

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Fixed for you.

Did Nantes really complain to FIFA and get Cardiff City put under a transfer embargo, or did that happen automatically due to Cardiff breaking the transfer rules?

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Easy defence, how are they supposed to try and keep a club out without a capable Manager?

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They did a year ago.

In a less than convincing rebuttal of the club’s case against FC Nantes lifted, in his usual way, from other sources the acclaimed literary leader of the other board continues to assert that the case is being pursued in his personal capacity by Vincent Tan. A peremptory perusal of the court listings will show that the case lodged is Cardiff City FC against FC Nantes.

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There's not a snowball's chance in hell that we'll get £100 million - most of which is deemed "consequential losses" which are never covered.

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That’s how it works, Tan would probably settle for 10% of that, and no legal costs obvs.

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There's not a snowball's chance in hell that we'll get £100 million - most of which is deemed "consequential losses" which are never covered.

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I tend to agree that the club won`t recover the whole of the £100m + claim. However, consequential losses are covered in French law claims like this.

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Originally Posted by Ninian1962

I tend to agree that the club won`t recover the whole of the £100m + claim. However, consequential losses are covered in French law claims like this.

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Have you any indication that Nantes have insurance in place that might cover this vlaim?