Cardiff's lawyers - Sala


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Odd one that. Even if the other clubs confirm they were never interested in signing him I don't see how that would affect whether Cardiff owe the money. Surely they can't be trying to argue that they only bought him because they thought others were interested as well? Clubs and agents plant stories about alleged interest all the time, it's not illegal in any way. Absolutely understand them looking into it and ensuring he was registered as their player etc, but don't understand this angle at all
It would be to do with the value being inflated
 
Don’t really understand the outrage over the media reporting it - aye, it will be tough on his family etc. but equally it needs reported if Cardiff are taking the piss imo.
 
Planting stories to inflate fees is just part and parcel of the game. It's the same in real life. If I was selling a box of apples and someone showed interest in my apples I'd say "well I was on my way to sell them to Mr. Jones down the street, but if you give me the £4 he said he'd pay it'll save me the walk" now I might have legitimately been on my way to Mr. Jones down the street, like Nantes had legitimate dialogue with other PL clubs about Sala, but at no point had Mr. Jones agreed to spend £4 on my apples.

It's just another part of the game that has weird legislation around it that everyone ignores. Same as "tapping up", as if you're going to put all that time and effort in to identifying targets and agreeing fees with a club, for the player to turn around and say 'nah, not intrested' of course you're going to check if the player actually wants to come first. It happens in every transfer in the game. People only twist about it when something goes wrong.

Don’t really understand the outrage over the media reporting it - aye, it will be tough on his family etc. but equally it needs reported if Cardiff are taking the piss imo.
It seems a very modern phenomenon. Say when princess diana died, in was pretty young, but I don't remember anyone saying 'the media shouldn't be reporting on this'. I think it's to do with the growth of the internet (and some of the MSM shady actions in trying to keep relevant) but it says something when people would rather get their information from 6 pages worth of posts from people who know next to nothing about a subject, than one article from someone who is actually in the know.
 
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Baffling this one. Surely Cardiff city have insurance on all of their players and if they die or can’t play any longer through injury then the insurance pays up? Yes? No?
 
It’s one of those really unfortunate things, while I can get why both clubs involved in this would obviously want to explore all legal avenues available to them with the amount of money at stake, what makes it really sad, is that there’s no way that you can really report something like this without making it seem like you’re reducing a young lad who has tragically died to little more than a financial asset/liability. Which is why the media should just show some decency and not report it until the matter is resolved in a satisfactory manner.

It’s like a sordid episode of the Chuckle Brothers ‘to me to you’.....only it’s about who owned a dead man
 
I had always assumed that clubs insured themselves against things like this.

Its pretty clear Cardiff do not have the ability to recover the fee through an insurance policy as if they did they would just pay Nantes what they are due.

Baffling this one. Surely Cardiff city have insurance on all of their players and if they die or can’t play any longer through injury then the insurance pays up? Yes? No?

Did not read this, but its the same point I am making.

Surely if you are dealing in millions of pounds you carry insurance?
 
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according to a media source.

Cardiff threaten to sue football agent Willie McKay over 'inflating the Emiliano Sala transfer fee' | Daily Mail Online

Legal experts say Cardiff will have to pay the fee in full, since they have agreed to sign the player in a legally binding transfer deal. But the club retain some belief that the transfer had not been fully completed.

They think they may be able to argue that personal terms had not been finalised with the player.

The Premier League confirmed that Sala’s international transfer certificate had been registered with the FA of Wales and that he had been named in a squad registered with the Premier League when he died.
 
I strongly suspect they will pay the fee, but they are trying to reclaim a chunk from the agents for bumping up the final cost.

I can see things getting very nasty

I agree and perhaps it is a good thing as there needs to be a clearout of where underhand practices appear to be the accepted way
 
Suspect Cardiff might have more success exploring liability over the plane crash and how he came to be on it rather than other clubs ‘interest’

Either way not sure the agent is going to come out of this very well
 
Baffling this one. Surely Cardiff city have insurance on all of their players and if they die or can’t play any longer through injury then the insurance pays up? Yes? No?
Why lose your no claims discount when you can prove the agent was a crook? Looks like they're loading the responsibility onto McKay. There's more to this dodgy deal than meets the eye...
 
Throwing a spanner in the works here , but why would a club insure against a players death ?

I can understand an insurance against a career threatening injury that happened on the pitch , but can’t quite get my head round insurance for accidental death , looking at the statistics it’s almost not worth insuring for surely?
 
Throwing a spanner in the works here , but why would a club insure against a players death ?

I can understand an insurance against a career threatening injury that happened on the pitch , but can’t quite get my head round insurance for accidental death , looking at the statistics it’s almost not worth insuring for surely?
A career ending injury is the same as death in this instance.

They're simply insured against not being able to play football again.
 
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