sport news Cardiff will pay £15m Emiliano Sala fee to Nantes if 'contractually obliged'

Cardiff will pay £15m Emiliano Sala fee to Nantes if 'contractually obliged' Cardiff are still gathering information over £15m transfer fee due to Nantes Emiliano Sala signed for the Bluebirds in a club-record move last month Nantes have already requested the first instalment of payment from Cardiff 

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 

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

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

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