Cardiff City must pay French club Nantes an initial €6 million (US$6.5 million) in their dispute over the payment of the transfer fee for Emiliano Sala, FIFA said on Monday.
The amount corresponds to the first instalment of the €17 million fee Cardiff had agreed to pay Nantes before Sala died in a plane crash on Jan 21 while travelling to join his new club.
Cardiff had previously resolved not to pay any of the money even though the transfer had been completed before the accident.
In relation to the remainder of the initially agreed fee, FIFA told AFP: “For confidentiality reasons, we cannot comment at this stage on potential future instalments or other conditions of the transfer agreement.”
The announcement from world football’s governing body followed a meeting by its Players’ Status Committee.
In a statement, FIFA said it had “never lost sight of the specific and unique circumstances of this tragic situation during its deliberations on the dispute at stake.”
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Source: (AFP)
