\n The tribunal of Nantes, announcing its decision on Monday, ordered Cardiff to pay more than \u00a3400,000 to the French club.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Welsh club had previously sought damages of more than \u00a3100 million from the French outfit in a negligence claim, covering the Argentinian striker\u2019s \u00a315 million transfer fee and losses of other potential earnings.\n<\/p>\n
\n But the Tribunal de Commerce de Nantes ruled on Monday Nantes were not liable for negligence over Sala\u2019s death.\n<\/p>\n
\n Cardiff have been ordered to pay Nantes 300,000 euros in damages, and an additional 180,000 euros \u2013 coming to a total sum of 480,000 euros (\u00a3416,594), a lawyer for the Welsh club said.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 28-year-old striker died on January 21 2019 alongside pilot David Ibbotson, 59, when the light aircraft they were travelling in from France crashed into the English Channel \u2013 two days after Cardiff had announced the signing of the Argentine forward from Nantes.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Welsh club had claimed Nantes was responsible because the flight had been organised by football agent William \u201cWillie\u201d McKay, who was enlisted by the French club.\n<\/p>\n
\n A statement issued by Cardiff FC on Monday read: \u201cWe deeply regret that the court did not recognise FC Nantes\u2019 liability in this tragedy.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe initiated these proceedings so that the full truth of this case could come to light, in respect of Emiliano Sala\u2019s memory.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHow is it possible that, in the end, FC Nantes \u2014 which never contributed to the support fund we launched in memory of Emiliano \u2014 paid more money to Willie McKay (1.5 million euros) than to the Sala family?\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMore than ever, there is an urgent need to strengthen safety and ethical standards in the management and protection of players, so that such a tragedy can never happen again.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe world of football must take a hard look at itself.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Speaking to reporters outside of court following the decision, Jerome Marsaudon, representing FC Nantes, said: \u201cWe are very pleased with the tribunal\u2019s decision, which attests to what we\u2019ve been maintaining for years.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe tribunal said it loud and clear and ordered Cardiff to pay exemplary damages.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cFC Nantes are in no way responsible for the tragedy that occurred and we are pleased that the tribunal has heard us and confirmed this in clear terms which, we hope, will put an end to this matter so that everyone can move on.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n In 2021, businessman David Henderson was jailed for 18 months after he was convicted of endangering the safety of the aircraft, after a trial at Cardiff Crown Court.\n<\/p>\n
\n He had also pleaded guilty to another charge of trying to arrange a flight for a passenger without permission or authorisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tribunal of Nantes, announcing its decision on Monday, ordered Cardiff to pay more than \u00a3400,000 to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-152408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}