Cardiff City's Legal Battle With Nantes - Update

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

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This sounds promising. There were a number of people on here who wanted us to just pay up and forget the whole affair when the legal action and refusal to pay started. I suspect they'd have had a different view were it their money. This shows that they were wrong.

[B. Oddie]

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The club may have a chance of winning regarding the transfer fee, but I can't see any chance regarding Premier League status. "Consequential loss" has to be proved, and there was no guarantee that we would have stayed up with Sala playing.

Agreed. It's very flakey.

The poor lad could have picked up and injury that ruled him out for a large part of the season.

Also, it may have been that he didn't have the impact that was hoped, though having seen clips of him on YouTube, he looked great.

[cityhammer]

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They cannot give what they have not got!

It'll be their insurance company that says up.

[Nobody's Rep]

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Haven't we already had a payment from our insurance company for the fees and if we seek it again do we need to pay the insurance company back as it would be double claimed ??

[Enoch Mort]

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Haven't we already had a payment from our insurance company for the fees and if we seek it again do we need to pay the insurance company back as it would be double claimed ??

That's a good point and I guess you are correct. However, we know that the sum received from the Insurance was a "settlement" and not the full amount. The actual amount of the settlement is confidential and has not been disclosed. There would be more to come if we were successful. Hopefully including the interest we have also paid.

[Rjk]

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I personally have no idea what our chances of winning this case are, but given the figures involved it would have the potential to wipe them out looking at their accounts - their owner even is estimated as having something like a net worth of £100 -£200m

MAybe they should just bung us a couple of players and call it quits - I'd be happy with Alban Lafont, and they have a highly rated young left back

[jimmyscoular]

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Sad family dispute with our twinned city:

"As many in Cardiff will be aware, there is a Boulevard de Nantes in the city, a major ring road that intersects the city centre and the Civic Centre areas. There is also a Boulevard de Cardiff running parallel with the river in the French city."

[Cowbridge Blue]

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The reference to French law about instructing agents is interesting - can someone remind me:-

Who gave the McKays, instructions to arrange the flight (or agreed to their proposal)?

Seems to be suddenly important