Now Bale wants to buy Cardiff as well as Plymouth

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

O Dowda didn't fancy league 1 either then

 

[AusinIsOurHero]

Ramsey to Mexico & O Dowda to Hungary.
They literally can't wait to get out of there.

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

Seems Sky sport said the bid from Bales group was only 20m

One thing I do not understand. Emiliano Salah Court case late September.

The transfer fee was around 15m but Cardiff are seeking to get 100m in damages and seem confident of getting that in Sept.

How the hell do you get awarded 100m for a 15m investment??? Which insurance has probably already paid out on

 

[Blackpooljack]

Seems Sky sport said the bid from Bales group was only 20m

One thing I do not understand. Emiliano Salah Court case late September.

The transfer fee was around 15m but Cardiff are seeking to get 100m in damages and seem confident of getting that in Sept.

How the hell do you get awarded 100m for a 15m investment??? Which insurance has probably already paid out on

Cos they are claiming that Salah would have kept them up

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

Cos they are claiming that Salah would have kept them up

Thats a hell of a stretch. 1 player in a team of 11. What the hell. Seems like they are going to win. Hope they dont just because I thinks its way off to get 100m compo for that situation, not because they are Cardiff

 

[bakajack]

Thats a hell of a stretch. 1 player in a team of 11. What the hell. Seems like they are going to win. Hope they dont just because I thinks its way off to get 100m compo for that situation, not because they are Cardiff

Of course it is, to call it speculative at best is being generous
They werent exactly creating chance after chance and just screaming for a finisher to put those chances away

 

[eteb]

Cos they are claiming that Salah would have kept them up

Absolute lunacy. The bloke scored 1 in 3 for a French side, why would he equal or better that for the worst side in the better league at the time? No way of proving it and thus total bollocks

 

[J_B]

Thats a hell of a stretch. 1 player in a team of 11. What the hell. Seems like they are going to win. Hope they dont just because I thinks its way off to get 100m compo for that situation, not because they are Cardiff

Why do you think that they’re going to win?

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

Why do you think that they’re going to win?

Just reading news stories on different news sites. I hope they dont and not because they are Caridff

 

[bakajack]

Everything that Cardiff have done regarding the whole Salah fiasco has been of the lowest possible moral fiber.

From the very instant the accident happened, the way they dragged him, his agent, his former club and everyone but themselves through the mud and tried every possible legal loophole they could come up with not to pay completely obliterated any good will or sympathy towards the club that I (or most others too if I am being honest) might have had.

It would be terrible for those employed by the club but I hope with every part of my being that they lose in September, are forced to pay out tens of millions in damages and legal fees and go under to be replaced by a new institution somewhere in the 8th tier of footballing obscurity.

 

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

Everything that Cardiff have done regarding the whole Salah fiasco has been of the lowest possible moral fiber.

From the very instant the accident happened, the way they dragged him, his agent, his former club and everyone but themselves through the mud and tried every possible legal loophole they could come up with not to pay completely obliterated any good will or sympathy towards the club that I (or most others too if I am being honest) might have had.

It would be terrible for those employed by the club but I hope with every part of my being that they lose in September, are forced to pay out tens of millions in damages and legal fees and go under to be replaced by a new institution somewhere in the 8th tier of footballing obscurity.

Trying to claim he wasn't their player was absolutely disgusting.

If they'd just paid Nantes and then gone after the party's that caused his death from outset I'm sure they'd have had a lot of sympathy. But they took the low road.

Scum by name, scum nature.

 

[monmouth]

As I see it, they can’t possibly get arbitrary, no, imaginary, consequential losses when he’d never played a PL game.

Unless the law is different in France. Or they can prove that Nantes knew, or should have known, the pilot was dodgy. If not theyll lose and lose hard.

Any lawyers on here? Better still French ones…I realise that’s a long shot…

 

[Magic_Michu]

I don’t think there’s any way of proving that had he not died they would have survived in the Premier League - they would have still gone done if they had signed Salah and not Sala

 

[bakajack]

I don’t think there’s any way of proving that had he not died they would have survived in the Premier League - they would have still gone done if they had signed Salah and not Sala

Without an alternate reality where he had not died in that air crash it is impossible to prove he would have kept them up. His scoring record (roughly 1 in 3) for Nantes before he died even if he had maintained that record in the PL would have meant 6 perhaps 7 goals. Nowhere near what would have been needed to keep them up especially when you consider the number of chances they created on a per game basis and the number of expected goals vs actual goals scored.

Sadly relying on stats such as xG would be the closest way you could "prove" if he would have kept them up or not, and if you looked at his chance conversion rate and big chances Cardiff created and their expected goals it wouldn't have been anywhere near sufficient.

There is a reason they have lost every stage of this legal farce and the only injustice is that they have been given leave to keep appealing but after this there is no where else to go.

 

[ABSwan]

As I see it, they can’t possibly get arbitrary, no, imaginary, consequential losses when he’d never played a PL game.

Unless the law is different in France. Or they can prove that Nantes knew, or should have known, the pilot was dodgy. If not theyll lose and lose hard.

Any lawyers on here? Better still French ones…I realise that’s a long shot…

I don't believe Nantes had anything to do with the flight so wouldn't have any knowledge of the pilot. The flight was arranged as a favour by McKay. Cardiff had offered a normal passenger flight ticket but Sala turned it down.