By Ian Herbert For The Daily Mail
Published: 22:32 GMT, 18 February 2019 | Updated: 23:45 GMT, 18 February 2019
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Agent Willie McKay will argue that he paid for six flights to help Cardiff City if the club attempt to claim he deceived them in the process which saw Emiliano Sala join sign for £15million, Sportsmail can reveal.
McKay's dossier of paperwork on the deal shows he twice paid for manager Neil Warnock's flights to Nantes to see the player, once with assistant manager Kevin Blackwell in tow.
He twice paid to fly Sala and his agent Meissa N'Diaye on return flights to Cardiff, once to view the club and once to sign. McKay, rather than Cardiff, arranged transport from airport to club on those two visits.
Willie McKay told Sportsmail argue he helped Cardiff during the Emiliano Sala transfer
On the morning Sala signed, Cardiff club secretary Michelle MacDonald asked McKay if airport-to-club transport had been organised, he claims. He says his mobile phone records will bear this out.
Sportsmail revealed on Monday that the South Wales club's senior executives are ready to use McKay's admission that he spread false media stories about other clubs' interest as a way of avoiding paying Nantes the full transfer fee.
Cardiff view him as an agent of Nantes, the club who had mandated him to find a buyer for Sala. They may try to argue