Non: Sala, Cardiff and Nantes

kirsikka said:
Three and a half years later and Cardiff now have to pay up. Just as anyone with an iota of sense sense would have said they would need all that time ago.

Still sticks in the craw their whole behaviour around our match against them and the soft decision they got... only for them to try and back out of paying.

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/ca...t-of-emiliano-sala-transfer-fee-1661522356000
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Who's behaviour? Not exactly the fans fault this is it. As I said all along it was ltd vs ltd, no feelings involved, just law.
 
Silent AFCB said:
Who's behaviour? Not exactly the fans fault this is it. As I said all along it was ltd vs ltd, no feelings involved, just law.
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That is true. The club as a business entity had nothing to lose by flying a legal kite.

However, the club encouraged the sickening, "always a bluebird" stuff while maintaining what appeared to be a hypocritical stance over payment.
 
kirsikka said:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-63924598

"He wasn't our player despite us announcing him on the website and we won't pay the transfer fee, but we also want to sue our insurance broker because we didn't get our insurance broker to insure the player that wasn't our player for us."

Right.
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Absolutely pathetic.
As soon as the contract was signed he was their player and needed to be added to their insurance policy. They must know that. This claim is just embarrassing and will surely be dealt with swiftly by the courts.

He may have died in terrible circumstances but at least he never had to work under that bunch of scumbags ! Pathetic ! They should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

Really, they deserve some sort of punishment from the FA for their terrible behaviour with regard to this player and his family.
 
Cardiff City did nothing wrong...the aircraft Pilot f√cked up .
In respect of the life of Sala...all financial matters should have been aborted.
He never played a game for Cardiff....and could never have played again for Nantes !!!

Stupid concocted rivalry between 'Afcb' fans and the Welsh club should not even be in the equation . End of.
 
Old Cherry said:
Cardiff City did nothing wrong...the aircraft Pilot f√cked up .
In respect of the life of Sala...all financial matters should have been aborted.
He never played a game for Cardiff....and could never have played again for Nantes !!!

Stupid concocted rivalry between 'Afcb' fans and the Welsh club should not even be in the equation . End of.
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He may not have played for them but he had already signed and was their player. They gave him a few days back home to sort his affairs out and he died on the way back in a plane they had chartered.
For them to try to absolve themselves of any responsibility is frankly embarrassing. The law will prevail. They could have just done the decent thing and accepted their liabilities straight away to spare his family additional suffering and to prevent the saga from dragging on longer than necessary. They don’t and never did, have a leg to stand on, yet still they protest.
Apparently they are now shifting the blame to their insurance company for not paying out after they themselves were finally forced to pay for the player. This after they themselves had effed up and failed to tell the insurer to add this new player to their policy. You couldn’t make it up !
 
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Old Cherry said:
Cardiff City did nothing wrong...the aircraft Pilot f√cked up .
In respect of the life of Sala...all financial matters should have been aborted.
He never played a game for Cardiff....and could never have played again for Nantes !!!

Stupid concocted rivalry between 'Afcb' fans and the Welsh club should not even be in the equation . End of.
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What about if a person leaves a company.
He signs A contract with a new company.
He heads home for the weekend ready to start work on Monday. Sadly is killed in a car crash, Does his new firm honour his contract that may have life cover, although he has not done a days work?
 
borisatha said:
What about if a person leaves a company.
He signs A contract with a new company.
He heads home for the weekend ready to start work on Monday. Sadly is killed in a car crash, Does his new firm honour his contract that may have life cover, although he has not done a days work?
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The thing is, they only put in an insurance claim once they were finally forced to pay the transfer fee. Then they were told by the insurance company “hang on, we don’t have that player’s name on the policy, we can’t pay out the value of the player if he’s not included in the policy !”.
Facing the loss of the entire transfer fee, Cardiff City FC now claim that the insurer never told them that they had to add new players to the policy for their loss to be covered. Sounds ridiculous and desperate. Of course the insurance company needs to know which players they are covering, in order to calculate their total liability and price the premium accordingly !
If you have a modicum of understanding of how insurance works, you must realise that. This latest protest by them is an absolute joke. They need to just accept their bad luck and pay their dues, end of. But instead they deny all responsibility and keep looking to somebody else for the fee they lost.
 
borisatha said:
That’s a good point.
At the same time if one ( I hate saying one) then changed their mind on Sunday and signed for another company to start on the said Monday, would he/she (one) be in breach of contract?
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It all depends on the terms but probably yes. In theory you could be required to work the notice period in the contract. In practice not may employers would want to do that. I suppose damages could be a possibility.
 
I wonder how we would be viewing it.. had it been Boscombe !

I'm sticking with 'respect the dead' and drop the financial aspects.

I might be coming at it from an unorthodox angle ..but it's just a personal opinion.
 
You could say it's 'bad luck' on Cardiff....and similarly 'bad luck' on Nantes if they never get any MONEY....but then the 'terrible luck' was with Sala himself and his family.
 
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