International football governing body, FIFA, has ordered English club, Cardiff City, to pay 6million euros (£5.3million) to Nantes over Emiliano Sala’s transfer saga.
The Argentine died in a plane crash while travelling from France to the UK to complete his move to Cardiff.
The Bluebirds had agreed to pay £15m but after Sala’s death, they refused insisting he was not yet registered as a Premier League player.
Ruling on the dispute between the two clubs, FIFA’s player status committee decided that they must pay the amount equivalent to the first instalment of that fee.
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A statement from the committee read: “In a meeting held on September 25, 2019, the FIFA players’ status committee established that Cardiff must pay Nantes the sum of 6,000,000 euros, corresponding to the first instalment due in accordance with the transfer agreement concluded between the parties on January 19, 2019 for the transfer of the late Emiliano Sala from Nantes to Cardiff.
“The Fifa players’ status committee, which never lost sight of the specific and unique circumstances of this tragic situation during its deliberations on the dispute at stake, refrained from imposing procedural costs on the parties.
“The findings of the decision were notified to the parties concerned today. Within a deadline of 10 days, Cardiff and Nantes can request a copy of the grounds of the decision, which can be appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.”
