Should Cardiff City honour it’s pledge to pay Nantes following the transfer of striker Emiliano Sala despite the fact that the now late striker did not make a single appearance for the blue birds?
Well, from a human perspective, Cardiff City would be spared from making the payments but from a business perspective, they are obliged to make the payments.
There were earlier push and pull between Cardiff and Nantes on the said payments but it now seems like the two clubs have finally arrived at an amicable solution.
It has now been revealed that Nantes and Cardiff have agreed to defer the first instalment on Emiliano Sala’s £15million transfer fee.
According to the Independent, the case could go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport if the two sides cannot agree on when to pay the transfer fee.
Sala died when his light aircraft crashed into the English Channel on January 21.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that a Cardiff blunder could have cost Sala’s family £600,000 in insurance payouts.
According to the Times, players automatically become part of the PFA’s pension scheme as soon as they are registered with the top flight organisation.
And the PFA’s death-in-service payment to families is valued at £600,000.
The Professional Footballers’ Association is reportedly pursuing the pension fund for them to honour the payment, even though he was not registered with the Premier League.
Cardiff made an error in their paperwork when registering the player and the league handed the forms back to the club, asking them to clarify details and re-submit them over the £15million deal.
That required Sala to re-sign documents, but he was tragically never able to before he died on January 21 when his light aircraft crashed into the English channel en route from Nantes to Cardiff.