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dsc810
Do we know whether Sala was officially under contract at Cardiff?
We are told he has signed to Cardiff but was it all cut and dried with signatures on the dotted lined and was he or not on the Cardiff insurance schedule.
It appears he had not started at the club yet with all this shuttling back and fro so maybe not which might explain why Cardiff were sort of offering him a alternative flight arrangement rather than telling him "these are your flights which you will use"
Sala signed on the Saturday before travelling back to Nantes. The Manager implied that this put him under their control because he stated that he could have insisted that Sala travel with the team to Newcastle rather than fly to Nantes. It is difficult to know the basis of the dispute with Nantes over payment but Cardiff seem to suggest that the registration of the contract with the Premier League hadn’t been completed before the accident. Their previous statements also seem to suggest negligence in the booking of the flight by the agent employed by Nantes Football Club.