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10 hours ago, downendcity said:

This seems to confirm what I heard Simon Jordan say on Talksport recently.  His comment was that when money is involved, football has no integrity.

Sala was flying to Cardiff for his first training session with his new club, so it is only with the benefit of hindsight, and the inconvenient death of said player en route , that the contract became an issue or Cardiff, especially as it seems the issue with the contract is down to Cardiff's error. 

Given the emotive nature of the circumstances, I am amazed that Cardiff has not sought to find a settlement agreed privately between the clubs and away from publicity.

In all fairness, why should there be a 'settlement'? Cardiff agreed to buy a player for X amount. The fact he didn't get to play a game for them due to tragic circumstances is neither here nor there. They agreed a fee, they now need to pay it. If I was the owner of the selling club, no way would I agree to anything less than what was agreed. 

Edit - and if anything, I'd look to sue them for withholding funds owed to them! 

6 minutes ago, pillred said:

Cardiff City are not coming out of this saga very well are they, would like to think we would have acted in a very different way.

Massive understatement. They come out of this absolutely stinking of shit. Disgusting what they're doing to try and get out of a relatively small transfer fee, given the sums of money they would've received from reaching the Premier League. 

Sadly, I think a lot of clubs would've taken this sort of action, as it seems money is everything to them. 

7 minutes ago, zippycar said:

Highly unlikely

Exactly this. 

It's a two seater prop plane. Its not a commercial airliner or a private jet. Its a prop plane. Very unlikely to have a black box. Would be amazing if it did, but unlikely. 

1 hour ago, Super said:

Thought they said on the radio that some seats left were only 1500 pound? Could be wrong though!

Only... 

2 minutes ago, JamesBCFC said:

The guy at my local shop does a terrible job, that gives me permission to insult everything he does then?

No, it doesn't. 

I'm not even defending Johnsons decisions any more. 

How in earth can you defend LJ? 

Look at what he has done, amongst others, to our club! Look at where we are in the league. Look at the f*cking pile of shite we're in. The football is absolutely shocking. 

How the heck can you defend him? 

Complete joke of a club and having fans not kicking up more of a fuss worries me, as we're just sitting back and watching our club disintegrate in front of us. We're a shambles, on and off the pitch. 

6 minutes ago, JamesBCFC said:

Need to have a dig at someone just because you don't like them did you?

Are you being serious?! 

Jeez. 

7 minutes ago, old_eastender said:

Sadly I'm not sure that even relegation will see the end of LJ... I think his reign will go down in history as eclipsing even Pulis' in terms of long term damage done, all so very, very, sad and unnecssary.

Totally agree. Baffling and disheartening.