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Somebody is ultimately paying for the flight, and I doubt if it is Henderson. Also the pilot Ibbotson had previously flown Warnock to France, so this doesn't look like it was a new kind of arrangement. Will Henderson be the fall guy for doing what he normally does? I think there is more to come regarding this story.
Jack McKay
Full name Jack McKay[1]
Date of birth 19 November 1996 (age 22)
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland[2]
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
Cardiff City
Youth career
2006–2014 Doncaster Rovers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2016 Doncaster Rovers 4 (0)
2015 → Ilkeston (loan) 4 (0)
2016–2017 Leeds United 0 (0)
2017 → Airdrieonians (loan) 15 (1)
2018– Cardiff City 0 (0)
Paul McKay
Full name Paul McKay[1]
Date of birth 19 November 1996 (age 22)
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland[2]
Playing position Centre Back
Club information
Current team
Morecambe
(on loan from Cardiff City)
Number 24
Youth career
2006–2014 Doncaster Rovers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2016 Doncaster Rovers 0 (0)
2015 → Ilkeston FC (loan) 5 (0)
2015 → Gainsborough Trinity (loan) 10 (1)
2016–2017 Leeds United 1 (0)
2018– Cardiff City 0 (0)
2019– → Morecambe (loan) 1 (0)
If they are on 500 quid a week its 500 quid to much.
Questions need answering 22 years of age and never hardly featured in any league games for any one.
They are grease in the wheels of a grubby business . We would be none the wiser if that plane had not succumbed to icing or whatever. Managers need agents , it’s unfortunate for N W but his contact cut corners and he, and The Salas will live with this tragedy for life .
VT does like his day in court so a summer of litigation to look forward to
im not saying any of this is true but my question would be where's Warnock in all of this, we have all heard his Didier Drogba story, sounds like he as been working with this guy for many years.
I've got to be careful how I word this, so I'll say that if you are earning a significant sum for your part in arranging a £15 million pound transfer, then wouldn't you feel obliged to lay on the best possible treatment for the player involved? The offer to enable Sala to fly to France and back free of charge suggests that, but what happened after that doesn't for me.
So many have made out that they are some sort of aviation expert over the past ten days or so, but that's something I've consciously avoided doing because I knew bugger all about planes and flying them a fortnight ago and I still do know. However, you only have to read that thread from the aviation site that was posted on here to see that at least some people who do know about these subjects have doubts about the use of that type of plane for the sort of flight involved in the prevailing weather conditions.
Similarly, there have been question marks regarding the suitability of the pilot for the type of journey involved raised. It would appear that it is not 100 per cent certain that the McKays were responsible for the choice of plane and it looks unlikely that they picked David Ibottson to be the pilot, but it seems that they did arrange for Mr Henderson to be. Now it seems to me that, given the doubts expressed about pilot and plane by people qualified to know about these things, Mr Henderson acted recklessly in arranging for an alternative pilot, but, as the people in overall charge, weren't the McKays wrong to consider someone who would act like that in the first place?
That's what I meant when I talked about the arrangement of the flight being amateurish. When you have somebody making it as obvious how much money matters to him and his company as Willie McKay does in those e mails, it seems logical to think that they would take a cutting corners approach to the cost of arranging things like private flights for the clients responsible for making them these large sums of money.
Mystery of second Sala pilot revealed: British man, 60, who was initially feared dead in crash 'paid for his replacement's hotel and flight costs' after asking 'Want to spend a weekend in Nantes?'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...las-plane.html
Lots of discussion and opinions on this, but I’m with Rocco. The skulduggery that goes on with the majority of agents managers and clubs knows no bounds.
Agents are agents. I don't agree with it; but until there's a massive change they're always going to be around. Some good and some bad; some enjoy the limelight and 'placing' it gives them and therefore try to look after their clients; but some of them care little for any of that and just want the £££. That's whatever.
Leaking this into the press is ****ing disgusting though. Horrible bunch of c*nts.
Or maybe Mr Henderson turned up at the airport, and decided that due to the type of plane, and the weather conditions, he didn't deem it safe to conduct the journey and pulled out. Leaving Mr Ibbitosn to say "I'll do it".
The choice to fly is always the pilot's.
Just seen the post with the Daily Nazi link.
We've seen a lot of speculation about what happened - Henderson's paasport scanned at the airport, pilot changed at last minute, pilot changed earlier, flight postponed, plane taking 3 attempts at take off etc etc.
I'm sure the enquiry will come out with most of the facts once they have them.
If what you say is entirely correct, then Mr Henderson was happy to hand over the journey to someone who was less qualified to manage it than him. That would be a little risky even if it was a solo flight delivering some sort of goods, but when the "cargo" was a £15 million footballer, the decision he may have taken strikes me as a reckless one.