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City of Cardiff wanted Emiliano Sala take a commercial flight in Wales from France, said club president Mehmet Dalman, with the police called research for the missing player for a second day.
Sala, which was confirmed as a record record Cardiff Saturday after opting to leave the Ligue 1 side Nantes, was on a private plane gone near the Channel Islands Monday, the French Civil Aviation Authority confirmed. Guernsey police said after the search for Sala and the pilot, dubbed Dave Ibbotson, Tuesday "the chances of survival are at this stage, unfortunately, lean" there had been a landing accident on the water.
The operation resumed Wednesday and focuses on a scenario in which the people on board would have managed to get on board the life raft of the plane, but the police postponed their search until 5:10 pm local time after find "no trace" of the aircraft.
There had been speculation around Sala's decision to take a small plane from Piper Malibu in Cardiff, with some reports suggesting that the flight had been organized by the club, but Dalman says that they had wanted the 28-year-old player to go to Paris before boarding a commercial flight to the Welsh capital.
"We have examined the matter in some detail and it is evident that Cardiff took the responsibility of offering the player, which would have been commercial flights, which would have meant to take the train from Nantes to Paris and then Paris to Heathrow and up, "he told Sky Sports News. And the player's reaction to that was that he wanted to make his own arrangements, which would have been much faster. We will continue to collect data to try to understand exactly what happened to that end. "
"That he did from the point of view of Nantes or with his agent, we try to verify that. We will come to a conclusion in two days. Everything indicates a tragic accident. "
Dalman confirmed Sala's sister travels to Cardiff meet CEO Ken Choo and manager Neil Warnock.
"It's been a couple of tough days, but the fa football family was really very supportive, not just in Cardiff, but around the world. We are very grateful for the support we received, "he said.
"It is tragic, we will continue to hope and pray, but we must also be realistic. It does not look good at this very moment. Sala's sister travels to Cardiff, where Ken Choo and Neil will meet her and talk. It's a must: we must show our human side in such tragic circumstances. You can not train for an event like this. Everyone pulls together. "
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