Cardiff Cough Up

[Darran]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64228188

 

[MrSwerve]

About f*cking time. They should be embarrassed and ashamed.

 

[sainthelens]

Are they mad? Fancy paying for a player that wasn't even theirs.

 

[CygnusX1]

So they were in the wrong? Who’d have thought?

 

[monmouth]

When’s the next instalment due?

 

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

Funny that they suddenly start caring about Sala's family and memory when the transfer window opens and they have a transfer embargo isn't it?

The embargo should remain in place until for the same amount of time that they've refused to pay Nantes.

 

[JackSomething]

They've paid the first instalment, plus a big whack on top in interest payments. But surely the subsequent instalments have all past their due date now, so the authorities should tell them the embargo will be lifted once they've paid in full. Otherwise this will all start up again when Nantes request the next instalment.

 

[Captain_Sham]

When’s the next instalment due?

2028 at this rate

 

[jack_lord]

That's a huge amount of money for a championship side to cough up without the parachute payments. Will they be expected to continue coughing up the installments and what happens if they are relegated?

 

[monmouth]

It’s ok, Bale and Ramsey will play for them for nothing cos they loves the kairdiff ayatollah see.

What? He has? No way. Without fulfilling his lifetime’s ambition of playing at the Lego? Well, I’m shocked.

 

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

That's a huge amount of money for a championship side to cough up without the parachute payments. Will they be expected to continue coughing up the installments and what happens if they are relegated?

Yes, now they've finally paid one installment it means that they have admitted he was their player and they are therefore liable to pay the whole thing (they always were).

If they are relegated they'll still have to pay or remain under transfer embargo or worse (points deductions etc) forever more.

They could have settled this debt when they were a Premier league or at least a parachute receiving championship side but they chose not to. They gambled and lost and now have to live with the consequences.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

Now they've accepted that Sala was indeed their player, I can see them suing Nantes next, for the way they handled the transport for Sala to return to Cardiff!!

 

[monmouth]

Now they've accepted that Sala was indeed their player, I can see them suing Nantes next, for the way they handled the transport for Sala to return to Cardiff!!

Hope so. It’ll take five years, they will pour loads into legal fees and they will lose.

Sweet.

 

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

Now they've accepted that Sala was indeed their player, I can see them suing Nantes next, for the way they handled the transport for Sala to return to Cardiff!!

They can try that if they want, but I haven't seen any wrongdoing or malpractice apportioned towards Nantes following the various inquests and investigations so far so it doesn't look like that'll get very far.

 

[TheGoodDoctor]

Now they've accepted that Sala was indeed their player, I can see them suing Nantes next, for the way they handled the transport for Sala to return to Cardiff!!

What do you mean? Nantes had nothing to do with it.

Sala had left Nantes and already signed for Cardiff. He returned to France to gather his things to move.

Cardiff offered him a flight from Paris (4 hour drive from where he was) so he refused it and arranged his own with Paul McKay, who is also a long term Cardiff agent.

If I book you an Uber and the driver isn’t qualified, I’m not liable for that.

There are only two avenues for suing, the first one is the company that owned the plane (but nobody knows who it is) and the second is David Henderson who gave his piloting job knowingly to an under qualified pilot - but he most certainly doesn’t have anything like what they would be wanting.

Nantes most certainly is not an Avenue for litigation.