On the sixth anniversary of Emiliano Sala’s death, Cardiff City’s chairman, Mehmet Dalman, hoped he would be able to speak about some good borne from tragedy: how the shocking loss of a player and the pilot of the plane that killed them had served as football’s wake-up call to ensure such a disaster would not happen again.
Six years after Emiliano Sala’s death, Cardiff chairman calls for shakeup in transfer rules Mehmet Dalman says hopes that the player’s death in a plane crash would act as a catalyst to improve regulations that have fallen short.
Cardiff’s claim that they should not be liable for the transfer fee because Sala was not officially their player when he died was rejected by football’s governing body Fifa, the court of arbitration for sport and the Swiss federal tribunal.
“You would have thought the death of two individuals would have caused an outcry,” he says.
The 28‑year‑old Argentinian striker had just become Cardiff’s record signing, at £15m, and was the club’s great hope in what proved a futile attempt to avoid relegation from the Premier League.
