The lawyer of City of Cardiff He said this Monday that the club’s case against FC Nantes for the death of Emiliano Sala in a plane accident in 2019 is worth more than 120 million euros.
After “an in-depth analysis” conducted by a legal expert, “the loss of Cardiff is estimated at 120.2 million euros,” the lawyer for Cardiff, Celine Jonesconfirming information from the newspaper ‘L’Equipe’.
This review is planned to be formally presented at Nantes Commercial Court this Monday afternoon, in a technical hearing that will set the calendar for the rest of the proceedings in this case.
The Argentine striker Emiliano Sala28, died in January 2019 in a plane crash over the English Channel when he was on his way to his new club, the City of Cardiffwhere he was sold by FC Nantes. He had no time to play for the Welsh club.
He City of Cardiff considering that the FC Nantes was responsible for the private flight on which the footballer boarded, and the transfer had not been completed at the time of his accident. For this reason, the Welsh club appealed to the Commercial Court of Nantes to claim compensation for loss of income and other damages suffered by the club as a result of the death of Hall.
A previous estimate put the damage at 100 million euros, which came in particular from the financial and reputational losses represented by the passing of Cardiff from Division 1 to Division 2.
“Yes Hall hopefully able to play, he will inevitably score goals between January and June 2019 and the Cardiff would have remained in the top category. “It’s unrealistic to think that he didn’t score any goals,” he said. Jones at a hearing in June 2023.
Contacted AFP, the lawyers of FC Nantes They had not responded as of Monday morning. Last June, they condemned the attitude of the French club “to the limit of all its methods.”
In another case related to the dispute between both clubs, last year the FIFA Football Court condemned the Cardiff to pay to FC Nantes the balance of the Argentine player transfer, which at that time reached just over 11 million euros from a total of 17 million.
Source: La Verdad
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