" Interim judgement on Sala expected "

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Nearly six years after the accidental death of Emiliano Sala on 21 January 2019 in the crash of a private plane off the coast of Guernsey in the English Channel, the Nantes Commercial Court is due to deliver its decision on Monday regarding a "dispute within the dispute" between FC Nantes and Cardiff City FC (CCFC), as part of their interminable legal and financial war in this tragic case. This interim and technical judgment from the Commercial Court - without a hearing - must be communicated to the parties by email.

As a reminder, on July 24, FCN filed an "incident" for the purpose of forced communication of certain documents by its Welsh counterpart, in a procedure initiated in May 2023 by CCFC before the commercial court. On the merits, Cardiff sued Nantes using virtual statistics to calculate the amount of "damages suffered" following the disappearance of Emiliano Sala, who never played for the Bluebirds. After complex calculations carried out by various experts in France and the United Kingdom, the Welsh club (demoted to the Championship at the end of the 2018-2019 season) estimated its "loss of opportunity " and "loss of value" at more than 120 million euros, as revealed by L'Équipe . An astronomical sum that Cardiff City therefore continues to claim from FCN, which describes these requests as "extravagant" .

L'Equipe:



Nearly six years after the accidental death of Emiliano Sala on 21 January 2019 in the crash of a private plane off the coast of Guernsey in the English Channel, the Nantes Commercial Court is due to deliver its decision on Monday regarding a "dispute within the dispute" between FC Nantes and Cardiff City FC (CCFC), as part of their interminable legal and financial war in this tragic case. This interim and technical judgment from the Commercial Court - without a hearing - must be communicated to the parties by email.

As a reminder, on July 24, FCN filed an "incident" for the purpose of forced communication of certain documents by its Welsh counterpart, in a procedure initiated in May 2023 by CCFC before the commercial court. On the merits, Cardiff sued Nantes using virtual statistics to calculate the amount of "damages suffered" following the disappearance of Emiliano Sala, who never played for the Bluebirds. After complex calculations carried out by various experts in France and the United Kingdom, the Welsh club (demoted to the Championship at the end of the 2018-2019 season) estimated its "loss of opportunity " and "loss of value" at more than 120 million euros, as revealed by L'Équipe . An astronomical sum that Cardiff City therefore continues to claim from FCN, which describes these requests as "extravagant" .

I wonder if the result of this, coupled with the protest on Saturday may have a bearing on whether VT decides it's time to jump ship or not.

If tan loses and protest goes to plan he could be gone or atleast on his way by this time next week there is hope

If tan loses and protest goes to plan he could be gone or atleast on his way by this time next week there is hope

That’s not going to happen as much as I want it to

Roll on Monday, I say and fingers crossed.

sadly whether or not tan wins this case he will simply not go anywhere
he will just carry on like nothing is happening
year after year
season after season

If tan loses and protest goes to plan he could be gone or atleast on his way by this time next week there is hope

That’s not going to happen as much as I want it to

Its not going to happen at all.....

Tan only cares about his money, he willfully ignored all our protests in the full glaze of worldwide premier league exposure 10 years ago. He only changed when it was evident he was going to lose a shedload in the championship and his I'll build it and there'll come blew up in his face.

I am only going on Saturday to show my unhappiness with the way the club is being run. I am not expecting anything from it, but when i don't renew my three-season tickets next season irrespective of whatever league we are in the club can't be surprised when thousands do the same.

No idea what will happen in the Sala case, i don't think anyone does.

IMO Tan will be here this time next year and probably more.

He’s not going anywhere. He’s owed a shed load of money and there’s nobody lining up to buy us. Protest yes, the only way he would go is if there was a continual boycott of games and I mean complete. Starts with nobody renewing season and tickets. This will never happen.

league one and tan next year, oh and a new manager or two.

L'Equipe:



Nearly six years after the accidental death of Emiliano Sala on 21 January 2019 in the crash of a private plane off the coast of Guernsey in the English Channel, the Nantes Commercial Court is due to deliver its decision on Monday regarding a "dispute within the dispute" between FC Nantes and Cardiff City FC (CCFC), as part of their interminable legal and financial war in this tragic case. This interim and technical judgment from the Commercial Court - without a hearing - must be communicated to the parties by email.

As a reminder, on July 24, FCN filed an "incident" for the purpose of forced communication of certain documents by its Welsh counterpart, in a procedure initiated in May 2023 by CCFC before the commercial court. On the merits, Cardiff sued Nantes using virtual statistics to calculate the amount of "damages suffered" following the disappearance of Emiliano Sala, who never played for the Bluebirds. After complex calculations carried out by various experts in France and the United Kingdom, the Welsh club (demoted to the Championship at the end of the 2018-2019 season) estimated its "loss of opportunity " and "loss of value" at more than 120 million euros, as revealed by L'Équipe . An astronomical sum that Cardiff City therefore continues to claim from FCN, which describes these requests as "extravagant" .

Firstly, to call it ‘an accident’ (an unforeseen sequence of events that result in injury and/or death) does an injustice to Emiliano Sala and his family! The Courts agree that this was a wholly avoidable and tragic incident where certain ‘parties’ have been apportioned blame for its occurrence

As for the ‘technical judgment’, it is only an interim one and the battle will continue (for some time to come)

Whether Vincent Tan ‘wins’ or not is still to be decided but I fear he will be around our club at least until the outcome is known. That is why the ‘march’ on Saturday is so important, i.e. he and his cohorts need to realise the true angst of the club’s supporters in relation to the lack of (promised) progress, the lack of pertinent information, and the unwillingness to genuinely ‘engage’ with real supporters; seemingly including the supporter-elected FAB

L'Equipe:



Nearly six years after the accidental death of Emiliano Sala on 21 January 2019 in the crash of a private plane off the coast of Guernsey in the English Channel, the Nantes Commercial Court is due to deliver its decision on Monday regarding a "dispute within the dispute" between FC Nantes and Cardiff City FC (CCFC), as part of their interminable legal and financial war in this tragic case. This interim and technical judgment from the Commercial Court - without a hearing - must be communicated to the parties by email.

As a reminder, on July 24, FCN filed an "incident" for the purpose of forced communication of certain documents by its Welsh counterpart, in a procedure initiated in May 2023 by CCFC before the commercial court. On the merits, Cardiff sued Nantes using virtual statistics to calculate the amount of "damages suffered" following the disappearance of Emiliano Sala, who never played for the Bluebirds. After complex calculations carried out by various experts in France and the United Kingdom, the Welsh club (demoted to the Championship at the end of the 2018-2019 season) estimated its "loss of opportunity " and "loss of value" at more than 120 million euros, as revealed by L'Équipe . An astronomical sum that Cardiff City therefore continues to claim from FCN, which describes these requests as "extravagant" .

Firstly, to call it ‘an accident’ (an unforeseen sequence of events that result in injury and/or death) does an injustice to Emiliano Sala and his family! The Courts agree that this was a wholly avoidable and tragic incident where certain ‘parties’ have been apportioned blame for its occurrence

As for the ‘technical judgment’, it is only an interim one and the battle will continue (for some time to come)

Whether Vincent Tan ‘wins’ or not is still to be decided but I fear he will be around our club at least until the outcome is known. That is why the ‘march’ on Saturday is so important, i.e. he and his cohorts need to realise the true angst of the club’s supporters in relation to the lack of (promised) progress, the lack of pertinent information, and the unwillingness to genuinely ‘engage’ with real supporters; seemingly including the supporter-elected FAB

To be fair I had to use Google Translate on this as my French is not what it once was.

So in their defence, the translation on words like "accident" may not be 100% correct.