Cardiff City lose compensation case over Emiliano Sala death

The Welsh club took the case to the Nantes commercial court in 2023 for loss of income and other damages suffered by Cardiff as a result of the player's death. Monday's ruling ordered Cardiff to pay Nantes 480,000 euros in legal fees and moral damages suffered by the French club. Sala, a 28-year-old forward, died when the light aircraft taking him to the Welsh capital came down in the English Channel on January 21, 2019, two days after he had signed for the then-Premier League side. He and pilot David Ibbotson were killed.