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Emiliano Sala scored 13 goals for Nantes this season before joining Cardiff City, a Premier League club.
French civil aviation has said that the record 18 million pounds sterling signed by the city of Cardiff with Emiliano Sala was aboard a small plane that disappeared off the coast of the island of Guernsey.
French and British maritime authorities are looking for aircraft in the English Channel.
According to the Guernsey police, the flight left Monday night from Nantes to go to Wales with two people on board. Police said the search resumed Tuesday morning and no trace was found. French regional maritime authorities sent a research helicopter.
The guernsey coastguard was alerted shortly after 8 pm GMT on Monday, they had lost contact with Jersey air traffic control after asking to get off at Guernsey.
"At that time, no trace of the missing plane had been found," Guernsey police said.
A new Guernsey police update at 11:45 am GMT was as follows: "To date, five aircraft and two lifeboats have made more than 1,000 square kilometers." coordinate, no trace of the aircraft, research is continuing. "
In a statement issued Tuesday morning by Cardiff City President Mehmet Dalman, it reads: "We are very concerned about the latest news that a light aircraft lost contact over the English Channel last night".
Nantes, the former club of Sala, did not immediately comment. The final match of the Coupe de France in Nantes against the Entente Sannois-Saint Gratien, initially scheduled for January 23, has also been postponed to Sunday, January 27.
A statement on the website of Entente Sannois-Saint Gratien said: "The Entente Sannois-Saint Gratien sends all its support to FC Nantes as well as to the family of Emiliano Sala to this difficult moment, the thoughts of the club are also going to the people present in the plane. "
The last chance on @FCNantes pic.twitter.com/SV1dNHbYYH
– Emiliano Sala (@ EmilianoSala1) on January 21st, 2019
Sala, 28, tweeted his farewell to Nantes on Monday, accompanied by a photo of his former colleagues.
Sala arrived for the first time in France in 2010, when her potential was spotted by Bordeaux, who kept it for five years. He has been loaned three times, including a half-season at Caen that convinced Nantes to sign him in the summer of 2015. He scored 36 times in 89 league games. Canaries, including 12 this season, before signing for Cardiff.
Information from Reuters, Ian Holyman and Aramide Oladipo contributed to this report.
Source: espn.co.uk
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