By Emiliano Sala died when the private plane he was travelling in crashed into the English Channel
Cardiff are to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over FIFA’s decision to order the club to pay £5.3m (€6m) of the transfer fee for Emiliano Sala.
The sum corresponds to the first instalment that Cardiff were due to pay the Ligue 1 club in January, as per the deal agreed for the transfer of the Argentinian striker.
Sala had signed for Cardiff for a £15m fee but died in a plane crash in the English Channel on January 21 as he was flying to the Welsh capital to start training with the then-Premier League side.
Cardiff had refused to pay the fee for Sala as they believed the contract signed was “not legally binding”, and Nantes subsequently complained to world football’s governing body in February.
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