More than five years after the tragic disappearance of Emiliano Sala in a plane crash, the dispute over the Argentinian’s transfer between Nantes and Cardiff is still not resolved. According to The Team Today, the English club will thus present this Monday before the Nantes Commercial Court an invoice for 120.2 million euros which, according to it, the FCN owes to it for its “economic damage”.
To arrive at this sum, Cardiff City FC relies on expert studies. In this case, the company Analytics FC, a data specialist, analyzed the probable results that the club would have had in the Premier League with the contribution of Sala. It established for example, after extremely complex calculations, that Cardiff would have had a 54.2% chance of remaining in the First Division, even though the club had fallen into the Championship at the end of the 2018-2019 season.
A legal and financial expert commissioned by Cardiff then assessed the cost of this descent: 52.9 million euros in shortfall between the 2018-2019 and 2022-2023 seasons, 67.3 million euros in “loss of value” of the club. Finally, Cardiff City requests an additional two million from Nantes for “reputational damage”, specifies The Team.
For its part, FC Nantes denounces the “judicial relentlessness” of the English club and requests that the latter be fined.