According to l'Equipe.

It also says we've revised our claim for E100m by a third.

"A hearing is scheduled for this Thursday at the Nantes commercial court in the Sala case. Cardiff concocts an analytical report linked to its “loss of luck”, after the accidental death of the player.

Ten months after the start of civil proceedings by Cardiff City against FC Nantes, in the sad Sala affair, a new hearing - "pre-trial" - is scheduled for this Thursday (at 2 p.m.), before the Commercial Court from Nantes. The Welsh club took legal action in the commercial jurisdiction for “loss of income” and “damage” suffered after the accidental disappearance (at the age of 28) of the Argentine striker, who was never able to play for the Bluebirds. After estimating these “damages suffered” at more than 100 million euros, Cardiff revised its claims downward, by around a third less than this sum.

Emiliano Sala died on January 21, 2019 in the crash of a private plane off the island of Guernsey. The player joined his new club two days after the transfer agreement, worth €17 million, between the FCN and its British counterpart, who was then playing in the Premier League. And this is a key point of this file. Because at the end of this disastrous exercise, Cardiff was relegated to the Championship (where it still plays, currently ranked in 11th place) . The Welsh club therefore constructed a report, in the finalization phase, complete with statistics and “ expected goals” or “ expected points ”, aiming to demonstrate that it could have remained in the Premier League for one more season without the premature loss of its Argentinian “asset”.

To do this, the CCFC has enlisted, according to our information, the services of the British company Analytics FC, which specializes in particular in “data science” . On the French side, the Welsh club has also commissioned a legal and financial expert experienced in the high national courts, Maurice Nussenbaum. “We have extremely solid elements to support our position, with reports from eminent professionals who quantify the “loss of opportunity” suffered ,” explains Mr. Olivier Loizon, who is assisting Cardiff City in this civil case.

The Welsh club's other angle of attack concerns the responsibility of the sulphurous Scottish intermediary Willie McKay , the organizer of the fatal theft in Sala. Previously contacted, the lawyers of the Nantes club, Messrs Jérôme Marsaudon and Louis-Marie Absil, of the RMT law firm, believe that “Cardiff continues to attack the FCN unfairly and to unnecessarily mobilize the French justice system after having lost before FIFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport."

https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actu...ibunal/1455884