Cardiff City football are set to tell Fifa the deal to buy Emiliano Sala from Nantes for £15m was not legally binding.
Cardiff City are set to claim the deal to buy Emiliano Sala from Nantes for £15m was not legally binding.
Cardiff will tell world football's governing body Fifa that Nantes' conditions for completion of the deal were not fulfilled and Sala was not registered as a Premier League player.The French club referred the matter to Fifa, who want Cardiff to submit their evidence by 3 April.The Argentine died when an aircraft piloted by David Ibbotson, who is still missing, crashed into the English Channel near Guernsey.
BBC Sport has also learned arrangements for a signing-on fee did not meet Premier League rules and so had been rejected by the league.
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