Cardiff City would like to see 120 million euros from Nantes in compensation for the relegation from the Premier League in 2019. According to research by data agency Analytics FC, the relegation from the highest English league was partly due to the plane crash in which Emiliano Sala died. The team from south Wales now wants to see money, it is known L’Équipe to report.
In January 2019, Sala took off in a plane from Nantes to go to Cardiff, but the Argentinian never arrived there. Sala and the pilot crashed near the Channel Islands. Later, messages could be read on his phone to his friends, in which the footballer said he was scared. That cry for help ultimately became his last sign of life.
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The chance of survival for Cardiff in the Premier League would have been 54.2 percent, the data agency report showed. The financial loss because the team was relegated and the resulting reputational damage is estimated at 120 million euros by financial expert Maurice Nussenbaum. Not only the Welsh have filed a complaint, but the French also want to see money.
Nantes’ claim for damages is based on moral damage, and that is why the green and yellow people also want to see money. At the time, Cardiff wanted to get under the transfer fee of seventeen million euros, because the Argentinian never arrived in Wales. The saga surrounding the deceased Sala continues.
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