Despite the fact that more than four years have passed,’The case of Emiliano Sala‘ is still in full dispute between the two teams involved in his transfer. As reported by the sports newspaper L’EquipeHe Cardiff City filed a lawsuit on May 12 to the Commercial Court nantesin which he claimed around 110 million euros from the French team, in compensation for “damages suffered” following the Argentine footballer’s death.

It’s been a long time since the feud between the two squads, which is why the England team started their civil proceedings in France. Be careful, this incident happened after the ‘Blues’ failed with all their resources in Switzerland.

Based on information from popular sports media, the French team filed a lawsuit last Friday with the Commercial Court of Nantes, to condemn especially “to the FC Nantes company to pay a sum of 100 million euros with interest at the official rate from the date of the judgment, for the loss of profits sufferedby Cardiff, following the death of the Argentinian striker, who was never able to play at the institution that bought him.

As you remember, Emiliano Sala He died on 21 January 2019 at the age of 28, after a private plane crashed in the English Channel, off the island of Guernsey. The player soon joined his new club, Cardiff, two days after reaching a transfer agreement of 17 million euros. At that time, the Welsh team was playing in the Premier League. Currently, ranked 21st out of 24 in the Championship, in the second division of English football.

Cardiff City will take action

The Welsh team asked the court to hand down the sentence nantes to pay another two million euros for “reputation damage“Suffers from appearing in public”like a bad payersince the economic strife began. “FC Nantes must be punished. If the decision of the Federal Court is not in our favor, we will sue them immediately“, he mentioned Vincent TanCardiff City owners, days before CAS decided.

In a similar way, a manager recently stated that “Emiliano could have scored some goals that would have saved us from relegation”, that’s why it means a loss of 100 million pounds. And the English club used technology and goal-backed statistics to quantify why the Argentinian’s signing was important to get the two points they need to stay in the league. Premier League.

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