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The record signing of Cardiff City in the amount of 15 million pounds sterling (27 million Singapore dollars) is missing and is presumed dead after his private plane left the radar Monday night at 20:23.
The plane Piper PA-46 Malibu had taken off from Nantes Atlantique airport about an hour earlier and had disappeared north of Guernsey as it was heading towards Cardiff.
A search was suspended on Tuesday night, with police in Guernsey saying the chances of survival were "slim" if the plane landed in the water.
The Argentine striker, recruited by the French Ligue 1 club, Nantes, was ready to train with his new teammates on Tuesday. The Premier League club has since canceled the training.
<! – "Hello, little brothers, how are you crazy?" Sala said in audio messages posted on the Argentine site Ole.com, claiming that they had been sent to a group of friends and other WhatsApp players.
"Brother, I'm really tired, I was here in Nantes, I was doing things, things, things and things, and that never stops, it never stops, it's n & rsquo; Never stop.
"I'm here on a plane that seems on the verge of falling apart, and I'm going to Cardiff, crazy, tomorrow we're already starting and in the afternoon we start training, guys, in my new team. "
The 28-year-old then sent another message later saying, "How are you, everyone is fine? If you do not hear from me in an hour and a half, I do not know. they need to send someone to find me … I'm afraid! "
It also appeared that Sala had expressed concern about the plane of the Nantes defender Nicolas Pallois, who had dropped him off at the airport, which he said had been "bumpy" when He had taken him from Cardiff to France on Sunday. the plane was making "strange noises".
The French authorities of civil aviation have confirmed that Sala was aboard a small pbadenger plane missing.
Guernsey police said in a tweet that she had found "a number of floating objects in the water" after searching an area of 3,000 square kilometers for 15 hours, but "none sign of those on board ".
Sala joined Nantes in 2015 and had scored 13 goals in all competitions this season for the troubled club.
He had signed a three-and-a-half year contract with Cardiff, who was struggling for relegation on Saturday: "I'm very happy to be here, it makes me very happy and I can not wait to start m & # Coaching, meeting my new teammates and getting to work. "
Ken Choo, executive director and CEO of the Welsh club, said they "were praying for positive information."
"We were very shocked to learn of the disappearance of the plane," Choo said. "We were expecting Emiliano to arrive in Cardiff last night and was to be his first day with the team.
"Our owner, Tan Sri Vincent Tan, and his president, Mehmet Dalman, are all very concerned about the situation."
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Later, Choo told Sky Sports: "We canceled the training today because not everyone is in the right state of mind. the shock at that moment, including myself.
"The second thing is that I met him on Friday and that he's such a nice person.He's so, so happy to be here and happy to start." Words can not describe the look that he has on the face when he met us and we wandered around the ground.
"We knew him then and we are really sad to hear about this news because he is such a great person, I think you can see the happiness on his face, one of the best days of his life as he has We are so sad, we want to thank the people who have supported us today with a lot of messages and emails. "
Sala's crying father, Horacio, told local press in Progreso, Argentina, where the player's family resides, that he feared the worst.
"I do not know anything, no one has spoken to me, not a call from the embbady, the club, nobody," he said. "All I want is that you find it."
Hundreds of Nantes supporters held a vigil in the city center Tuesday night to pay tribute to their former striker, whose last message on Instagram showed him with his former teammates, subtitled with the words "The last goodbye".
The Nantes supporters have placed flowers and scarves in the fountain of the Royal Place, as well as the national flag of Sala or Argentina.
"I still have hope, it's a fighter," commented Nantes president, Waldemar Kita.
This article was first published in South China Morning Post.
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