The management of FC Nantes is in great demand. While Franck Kita, its general manager, has been indicted, the French club should succeed on another ground. In legal and financial dispute with Cardiff City for 4 years about the transfer of Emiliano Sala, FC Nantes, Fifa would have decided.
According to the team, the Welsh club “has been ordered to pay the last two installments (respectively €6m and €5m, i.e. €11m) of the total compensation for this transaction, which amounts to €17m, and that he refused to pay. This sum corresponds to the two bills that Cardiff had to pay Nantes on January 1, 2020 and January 1, 2021 respectively. This obligation to pay was accompanied by interest on these debts of 5% “by Fifa.
FC Nantes should therefore indeed receive the total sum which had been concluded with Cardiff City during the 2019 winter transfer window before the tragedy. An agreement was then reached two days before the death. “The club is thus confirmed in its rights”, explained to L’Équipe the club’s lawyers, Jérôme Marsaudon and Louis-Marie Absil, of the RMT firm. “He hopes that after four years of litigation, Cardiff City will finally meet its financial commitments and end its procedural harassment. The FCNantes is eager to definitively close the legal aspect of this tragic accident.
The Welsh club has also initiated civil proceedings, before the Nantes Commercial Court, and is claiming nearly €110 million from the Nantes club as compensation for the “damage suffered” after Sala’s disappearance.
