Cardiff City have been ordered by the Court of Arbitration in Sport to pay Nantes for the transfer of Emiliano Sala.
Sala died in tragic circumstances in January 2019 when the plane he was travelling in from France crashed in the English Channel en route to south Wales. The Bluebirds announced his signing two days beforehand. His body was found in February of that year. Pilot David Ibbotson also died in the crash. His body was never recovered.
In the aftermath of the incident there was a dispute between the two clubs over the transfer fee which eventually went to the Court of Arbitration in Sport. FIFA originally ordered Cardiff to pay the first instalment of the £15million transfer fee agreed with Nantes to buy the Argentine striker.
