The class of Cardiff...

[bakajack]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10753021/Cardiff-looking-80m-compensation-Nantes-following-Emiliano-Salas-death-2019.html

Honestly I am speechless after reading that.

Article talks of using Tevez case as precedent, the key difference is that Tevez actually scored the goals and Cardiff are arguing that Sala would have done the same as a matter of fact. I hope that the judge rules against them and they get everything that their bad karma says is coming to them.

 

[Uxy]

Standard fare to countersue, and no doubt it's designed to scare, but I doubt they'll get anywhere with it.

 

[CurtessECarr]

Looks like a case of you drop your case and we'll drop ours. It's taken them 3 years to think it up though.

 

[Darran]

Scum.

 

[monmouth]

Surely they'd have to prove on balance of probabilities:

a) Nantes are to blame. Direct culpability
b) Sala would have single handedly kept them in the Prem, even though he'd never played in it.
c) That is a genuine consequential loss.

Looks ridiculous and desperate to me. I think it shows us which way the CAs will be ruling though. If they could have proved a) they would never have lost these cases.

 

[Jacket]

How are they claiming it's like the Tevez case? Tevez actually scored those goals, Cardiff are assuming Sala would have scored the goals to save them, ignoring the fact that a) the Premier League is a far stronger league than Ligue 1 and b) that he would have been moving from a strong Ligue 1 team to a poor and out of their depth Premier League club. Meaning it would be insane to assime he would be likely to set the Premier League on fire, which he would have needed to do to turn around a campaign, much like their previous foray into the league, never got off the ground at all, and survival never really looked like a credible proposition.

 

[monmouth]

Actually the CAS stuff was about registration wasn't it, so the two issues are separate.

Still ridiculous though. I mean, remember how Baston, Bony and Ayew saved us...and two of them had credible premier league records. It's just sabre rattling bullshit.

 

[Swanjaxs]

So it's Nantes fault the plane fell outa the sky then.
Scummy bàstards.

 

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

Actually the CAS stuff was about registration wasn't it, so the two issues are separate.

Still ridiculous though. I mean, remember how Baston, Bony and Ayew saved us...and two of them had credible premier league records. It's just sabre rattling bullshit.

Yea exactly. A Court of Arbitration for sport can't or don't rule on criminal culpability or whether Nantes/the agent/Cardiff/Sala/pilot himself were liable for the state of the plane.

They will rule of whether he was a fully signed up Cardiff player and therefore have to pay the fee. That's all they're ruling on - an appeal based on UEFAs decision that he was a Cardiff player and they need to pay for him.

 

[Darran]

Not true.

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/club-statement-260422

 

[monmouth]

The Daily Fail strikes again

 

[CurtessECarr]

How could anyone think that a fine upstanding club like Cardiff would resort to that. Shame on you.

 

[J_B]

Not true.

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/club-statement-260422

Yeah, it’s £150M they’re after.

 

[old cob]

That's the first time I've ever seen class and Cardiff used in the same sentence.

 

[Nocountryforoldjack]

Vermin by name, if it smells like a rat, if it looks like a rat then it's a Cardiff city FC owner or fan.