Just remembered when they played Hadjuk Split and Koeman liked Vlasic so he bought him for £10m. He never scored, nice one Ron.
First half I had no idea that Miki was even on the field. Second half I very much know that he's on the field, but only because he's having an absolute shocker. That Miki-Sanchez swap really has turned out bad for everyone. Except for Sanchez's bank balance.
Don't punish the fans, but for some reason this leaves a bad taste in my mouth: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47941982 He was only on the plane because he was a Cardiff Player. signed and sealed and showed to the public. It may be for insurance, but doesn't sit right with me.
In the eyes of the fans, yes - in the eyes of insurance companies, no. Very sad all round, but no amount of piss taking will change that. I'd much rather talk about our game against Brighton tonight and the relegation battle on this thread than this stuff, but you really haven't got a clue, so here goes. The fact that he was on that fateful plane doesn't mean Sala was a Cardiff player at the time of the tragedy at all - total bollocks. When are you going to understand that a player is not legally contracted to a club until the footballing authorities have approved the transfer and said so? Some facts for you rather than the bollocks you're pedalling......... "Sala is understood to have wanted his signing-on fee up front, but Premier League rules do not allow this, so this contract was rejected. New contract terms were negotiated for much of the day on January 21 - the day of the fateful flight - but the light aircraft had already taken off from Nantes before the new terms could be put before Sala for his consideration. It is believed that Sala would have been able to refuse the new terms and opted to join a different club had he wanted to, as he was not a Cardiff player at the time. It's understood that Nantes, who would have received bonuses if Cardiff remain in the Premier League, requested that four terms be met for Sala to make a move to Cardiff. They are for a medical to have been successfully completed, for Sala and Nantes to mutually agree on terms for the termination of the player's contract, for that contract termination to be registered with the Ligue de Football Professionnel (who run the game in France), and the release of an International Transfer Certificate. The latter is what the FAW would have provided once clearance was agreed between themselves, the Ligue de Football Professionnel, Cardiff and Nantes. Such a certificate would have been required before Sala could be registered to play in any different competitions. However, it is understood the FAW had not confirmed the Sala transfer with Nantes because there were errors and missing pieces of documentation. Nantes' deadline for those clauses to be met was by the end of January 22, which would have provided enough time for a transfer deal to be struck elsewhere if Sala and the club had so wished. If those four clauses of Nantes' transfer agreement were not met, then it's understood the transfer was to be ruled null and void and, in such a scenario, it would cease to have legal effect and no payment would be required."
So if he wasn't a Cardiff player why the big emotional outpouring from the club? Definitely looks like he was going to turn the club down and go somewhere else
Any thoughts about it being someone had just died tragically? If as you suggest he was going to turn the club down and go somewhere else, then why should we pay for him - you can't have it both ways.
People die tragically all the time, you don't see the outpouring that Cardiff did for someone who died tragically, it was because he was your player. I was using that bold bit you put in your post, where it said - " It is believed that Sala would have been able to refuse the new terms and opted to join a different club had he wanted to, as he was not a Cardiff player at the time." - which clearly is bollocks and is just a loophole the club is trying to exploit so they don't have to pay.
Nope just a way of emphasising the point that the club were more than happy to take the mourning etc. Whilst in the background never intending to pay up. As I've said before its a bit of a ****ty thing to do imo. As we're playing assumptions though, you clearly know you're a club full of snidey ****s by the way you're jumping on things.
I have a recommendation. Shall we use the Sala thread on the Cardiff board for bitching, and this one for the Big Game. As someone who has had my penny say, and been given a penny back, it will be easier than retreading old ground here and annoying people looking to talk about the match tonight.
I take what you are saying. However, like others, the club were happy to take the public out pouring and even unveiled him as their player a few days earlier? Wasn't he only going back to Nantes to say goodbye to his teammates?. Not having a go at you other Cardiff fans, but it just doesn't sit right with me. It's true I don't know the legal ins and outs of it, but the club acted very much in the aftermath as if he was their player.
But Cardiff were lauding him as a new signining, he wouldn't have been on that plane otherwise https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/01/22/emiliano-sala-cardiffs-15m-record-signing/ Maybe Cardiff are correct from a legal point of view, I don't know, But from a moral stance it's distasteful.
