Paris
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A nice idea. Was mulling over this earlier. How can you mourn someone you never knew? Taking on board your suggestion, it might be better to do that on the Nantes forum.
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[Albion] Emiliano Sala [signed by Cardiff, confirmed to have been on missing aircraft]
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A nice idea. Was mulling over this earlier. How can you mourn someone you never knew? Taking on board your suggestion, it might be better to do that on the Nantes forum.
Nottseagull
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That was actually before he scored at the Millennium Stadium. Are you sure you've got your timeline right? I'm assuming you're talking about the guy who came on here claiming to be Leon Knight but wouldn't pose with a sign saying "I'm x on NSC".
GT49er
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Why? Sadly, in all probability now two people are dead, so therefore it was not a good decision, aka a mistake.
London Irish
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Was in the pub with a mate who had this week just put him in his fantasy team. Had to watch him go onto his phone and transfer him out when the news came through 
I guess life goes on
I guess life goes on
Was in the pub with a mate who had this week just put him in his fantasy team. Had to watch him go onto his phone and transfer him out when the news came through
I guess life goes on
Not for him
There are so many sad things about this story, but it’s such horrible way to go not only for the people involved but also for their families. They have to go throw two separate stages of grief - one when news reaches them that their loved one is missing and then again when the worst is finally confirmed. Or potentially worse still - they never get that closure.
Here’s hoping for a miracle, but sadly any good news now would be nothing short of that.
Here’s hoping for a miracle, but sadly any good news now would be nothing short of that.
Was in the pub with a mate who had this week just put him in his fantasy team. Had to watch him go onto his phone and transfer him out when the news came through
I guess life goes on
A regrettable post that proves there's always someone who lacks the emotional intelligence to judge the mood and the moment.
Give a take a year or two, I wasn’t being precise.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I listened to the half-hour feature on the Sala story on tonight's Radio 5Live. Just an awful story, so soon after the Leicester tragedy too.
It sounds as though Cardiff had made a decent signing there and with only a week or so of the window to go I can't see them getting anyone else in of that quality.
It sounds as though Cardiff had made a decent signing there and with only a week or so of the window to go I can't see them getting anyone else in of that quality.
London Irish
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Thanks for that. When you die (I don't know you from adam) life will go on.
Well that was an ironic comment on my drinking buddy’s too detached attitude to the news and the odd way some people process tragedy. But hey if you just want to have a go at me that’s fine too
arkan
Active member
Out of interest, would this tragedy null and void the transfer?
Arkwright
Arkwright
Awful news and thoughts are with family and friends.
As an aside his does it work for Cardiff, are players insured, I presume Cardiff hold the players contract and he has a value to the club. Sorry if anyone thinks it's poor timing to ask such a question however it would be hard on Cardiff to lose both a quality player and £15 million.
As an aside his does it work for Cardiff, are players insured, I presume Cardiff hold the players contract and he has a value to the club. Sorry if anyone thinks it's poor timing to ask such a question however it would be hard on Cardiff to lose both a quality player and £15 million.
Alireza Jahanbakhsh arrived in a light aircraft. Not sure the point you are making. Many footballers use private light planes.
GT49er
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Or perhaps amateur aviation is/was his hobby. It was a longish night flight for a lone pilot in a small and not very fast plane, so maybe he was just enjoying a chance to have a lesson/co-pilot the flight? Just a(nother) thought................. because none of us really have a clue.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
A normal passenger flight from Nantes to Gatwick is only 45 minutes. A small plane won't be as fast as a passenger jet, but it isn't a long distance flight.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
BBC Breakfast reporting Sala's family received a Whatsspp message from him whilst he was on the plane, expressing concerns about the plane breaking up.
drew
Drew
One would assume that if he has already signed on the dotted line and the contract registered then it was a done deal.
father_and_son
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For a single engine plane, Nantes to Cardiff is quite a long journey [close to 3hrs], but you can see why someone would chose a private plane over trying to do that journey any other way.