Emiliano Sala was killed in a plane crash before he could play for the Welsh team, so Fifa has ordered Cardiff to pay Nantes the remaining amount of the transfer cost.

This was revealed by Nantes’ legal team on Friday.

The attorneys said that the Fifa Football Tribunal had determined that Cardiff “must pay” somewhat more than €11 million, or the final two installments of the €17 million sum agreed upon by the two teams.

The ruling, which AFP was able to obtain, states that Cardiff will also be required to pay interest on the sum as well as $25,000 in procedural expenses.

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On January 21, 2019, two days after signing with the then-Premier League club Cardiff City, Sala, a 28-year-old Argentine striker, perished when the small plane carrying him to the Welsh capital crashed in the Channel.

“FC Nantes is delighted with this latest victory before Fifa.

“The club’s rights have been confirmed.

“It hopes that, after four years of proceedings, Cardiff City FC will finally respect its financial commitments and stop its relentless litigation”, lawyers Jerome Marsaudon and Louis-Marie Absil told AFP.

.Nantes “looks forward to bringing the legal aspect of this tragic accident to a conclusive close,” they claimed.

Cardiff made its initial payment of about six million euros in January of last year, following a negative ruling from the body that governs world football and a failed appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Last season, Nantes battled Ligue 1 relegation and just avoided the bottom four on the last day of May.

In 2019, Cardiff was demoted from the Premier League. For the previous four years, the team has maintained that Sala’s transfer was not yet complete when he was injured.

They filed a counterclaim in France in May for roughly €100 million. A hearing on the merits of that dispute will likely take place in the second quarter of 2024, according to the Nantes Commercial Court’s announcement from last week.