Cardiff City claims multimillion-dollar compensation from Nantes of France for the death of Argentine striker Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash in 2019 when he was traveling to Great Britain to join the team that was then playing in the English Premier League.
The Welsh club asks for a sum close to 100 million euros, according to L’Equipe de France, together with the reimbursement of the first ten million that it already paid for the footballer’s pass.
“100 million euros with interest at the legal rate from the date of the sentence, in concept of the loss of earnings suffered”, says the letter presented by the institution and adds: “Emiliano could have scored the few goals that would have saved us from the decline”.
Vincent Tan, owner of the institution, who is currently a member of the English Championship, claimed the figure because he maintains that at the time of the air tragedy he was not yet officially a Cardiff player and that he should not take financial responsibility.
At that time, he became the most expensive signing in history, but the plane he was traveling in crashed in the English Channel, ending his life and that of the pilot who accompanied him, David Ibbotson.
