By Press Association Sport Staff
Published: 19:06 GMT, 12 February 2019 | Updated: 19:42 GMT, 12 February 2019
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Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman says the club are still gathering information over the £15million fee due to Nantes for the transfer of Emiliano Sala but will pay up if 'contractually obliged'.
Sala had signed for the Bluebirds in a club-record move from Nantes last month, but was killed when the private plane carrying him crash-landed in the English Channel. He was 28.
His body was recovered from the wreckage last Thursday. Pilot David Ibbotson remains missing, with funds being raised to continue the search, to which Cardiff owner Vincent Tan has made a personal donation of some £50,000.
Cardiff are still gathering information over Emiliano Sala's £15m transfer fee due to Nantes
Sala had signed for the Bluebirds in a club-record move from Nantes last month
Nantes, meanwhile, have already requested the first instalment of payment for Sala's transfer fee.
Dalman, though, maintains the Welsh club must do their own due diligence before deciding how to proceed.
'Of course, if we are contractually obliged to pay them then of course we will. We are an honourable club.
'But if we are not - and there are some anomalies in that - then surely you would expect me as the chairman and guardian