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Cardiff City chairman Mehmet Delman says the club is still collecting information over the £15 million ($19 million) record transfer fee to Nantes for Emiliano Sala "if contractually obliged." Sala signed for the Bluebirds in January and suffered a plane crash in the English Channel, on his way to his new club. Sala was killed in the crash , at the age of 28. His body was recovered from the seabed wreckage last Thursday but the plane's pilot, David Ibbotson is yet to be found. Afundraising campaign was launched by Ibbotson's family for the resumption of the search for the pilot . Cardiff owner Vincent Tan made a personal donation of £50,000 to the cause. Despite a demand for the first instalment of the transfer fee from Nantes, the Welsh club is hesitant to pay as they are still seeking for clarification on the issue. "Of course, if we are contractually obliged to pay them then of course we will. We are an honourable club. But if we are not - and the...

A body has been recuperated by AAIB, the from the wreckage of the small aircraft that crashed into the English Channel, with Emiliano Sala and David Ibbotson aboard as passenger and pilot respectively. The identity of the body is yet to be disclosed as it could be that of 28-year-old Sala or 59-year-old Ibbotson. Sala's former team, Nantes, is pressing Cardiff City, to whom it sold Sala, for the payment of the first installment of Sala's $19.4 million transfer fee. Nantes has threatened legal action against Cardiff in a letter to the club on Tuesday, stating that they would take legal action if the first payment of the fee is not made within 10 days. Cardiff City however prefers to wait until investigations into Sala's accident is completed by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch before making any payments.  The AAIB said (via the AP) that the body was recovered in “challenging conditions,” and that the “operation was carried out in as dignified a way as poss...