Cardiff's lawyers - Sala


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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?

The same reason loads of businesses do
 
I agree but I suspect that’s the point they’re making in that - terribly worded - article. If the agent pushed the fee up by lying about other clubs’ interest, Cardiff will be annoyed.
probably pushed the price up in order to pay for the fee being offered to the players family.
 
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.
They felt it was completed enough to make a song and dance about announcing him as signed and being their record signing....

Record signing | Emiliano Sala is a Bluebird
 
They felt it was completed enough to make a song and dance about announcing him as signed and being their record signing....

Record signing | Emiliano Sala is a Bluebird

If wages have not been agreed, then it begs the question, has the deal been fully agreed.

It appears the player has been registered with the welsh FA and PL, so it will be hard to argue he is not their player but do await Cardiff version of the belief that transfer not fully completed.

however depending on media to give us the facts is a pointless task
 
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 hope Cardiff haven't benifited from this practice when selling players.
 
I’m not even getting into the more sinister aspects of the media which brought about Leveson. For situations like this, in an ideal world, it’d be nice if you had a few editors get their heads together, and rather than spouting the usual bullshit about ‘public interest,’ where infact the very definition of what’s of interest to the public is stretched to the f***ing limit, they either agree to show some class and not report it all until the dust is settled, or at the very least, limit their reporting of something like this to a brief, dignified and factually correct ‘Cardiff City are currently reviewing their legal position following the death of their recent, record transfer Sala. There is nothing more to report at this time.’ Without spinning an article out of it, which inevitably leads to conjecture and opinion over what is actually going on.

It’s not really a lot to ask.

The simple fact is that whether information may be of interest to the public, and whether its release is in the public interest are two different things. Too many editors fail to appreciate that.
 
Cardiff Nantes and "both" family's of deceased are well with in there rights to find out exactly what happened...the plane should be brung up and a thorough investigation done to make sure nothing like this happens again
 
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?

It's actually fairly common for high level plc execs to have both death and serious illness cover. The death insurance for someone like Sala would actually be quite low because it would seen as low risk. It's injury cover for players which costs. Accidental death cover is worth if the consequential loss arising from it is high enough.
 
Agents representing players, I understand. Transfers only happening through a brokerage scenario, I don't and never will. I cannot understand what happened to a club, calling another club, asking about their player and making a bid.
 
If wages have not been agreed, then it begs the question, has the deal been fully agreed.

It appears the player has been registered with the welsh FA and PL, so it will be hard to argue he is not their player but do await Cardiff version of the belief that transfer not fully completed.

however depending on media to give us the facts is a pointless task
But if Cardiff werent sure it was completed as they still had to finalise wages why have they registered him with the Welsh FA, registered him with the PL in their 25 man squad and put a big news article on their website announcing him as a record signing with a picture of him signing the paperwork then following up with a video interview on their twitter feed where he states he is raring to go in training and matches? The news story on their website was a good few days before the window closed as well so not like they rushed him through on deadline day so their could have been odd ends to tidy up.
 
Dangerous game Cardiff are playing and smacks of double standards
They have employed this agents sons as players who are clearly not good enough for League 2 never mind the Championship and Premier League.
Strangely so have Doncaster and Leeds.
At 22 years of age Jack has played 9 minutes in the National League and Paul 16 Minutes in League 2.

Lots of skeletons could come out with saga.
 
I hope Nantes get every single penny they are entitled to.
I also hope Cardiff do a thorough investigation and wake up fully to the fact the dodgy agent did indeed sell them down the river.
It might then get interesting to watch Cardiff turn the screw on the real villain of the piece.
 
But if Cardiff werent sure it was completed as they still had to finalise wages why have they registered him with the Welsh FA, registered him with the PL in their 25 man squad and put a big news article on their website announcing him as a record signing with a picture of him signing the paperwork then following up with a video interview on their twitter feed where he states he is raring to go in training and matches? The news story on their website was a good few days before the window closed as well so not like they rushed him through on deadline day so their could have been odd ends to tidy up.

I agree.

Drip fed information and purely wrong information is not helping, but still await cardiffs version of their belief that the transfer not fully completed. there must be some legal opinion as to why they think this is the case, but to the untrained eye, if he is registered that seems to be that.
 
Dangerous game Cardiff are playing and smacks of double standards
They have employed this agents sons as players who are clearly not good enough for League 2 never mind the Championship and Premier League.
Strangely so have Doncaster and Leeds.
At 22 years of age Jack has played 9 minutes in the National League and Paul 16 Minutes in League 2.

Lots of skeletons could come out with saga.
I really, really hope they do. Indeed, I am glad they are already rattling.
 
The simple fact is that whether information may be of interest to the public, and whether its release is in the public interest are two different things. Too many editors fail to appreciate that.

It's definitely in the public interest that things aren't covered up and clubs & agents allowed to operate without the risk of being 'outed'.

The press 'gets a bad press' but part of their agenda is to shine the light on corruption .... they've had a good record of that over the years tbf.

Curtailing the freedom of the press, in this country, might well be the worst option.
 
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It's definitely in the public interest that things aren't covered up and clubs & agents allowed to operate without the risk of being 'outed'.

The press 'gets a bad press' but part of their agenda is to shine the light on corruption .... they've had a good record of that over the years tbf.

Curtailing the freedom of the press, in this country, might well be the worst option.
Not sure what you mean here, mate.
If football finance was as transparent as it should be, there would be no one sweating about it because everyone would be playing by the same rules.

Cardiff ..
have employed this agents sons as players who are clearly not good enough for League 2 never mind the Championship and Premier League.
Strangely so have Doncaster and Leeds.
At 22 years of age Jack has played 9 minutes in the National League and Paul 16 Minutes in League 2.
I like this kind of corruption to be laid bare. Is this the kind of good press record you refer to, @Reiver ?
 
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