The championship striker refused to move Cardiff because of the tragedy of Emiliano Sala.

Hull City striker Jarrod Bowen revealed that he was refusing to replace the tragic Emiliano Sala in Cardiff City.

Sala has never played a game for the Bluebirds after being killed in a plane crash a few days after becoming their record holder.

At the end of the January transfer period, City turned to Bowen and submitted a £ 12 million bid to try to bring in a leader.

But Bowen admits that he felt "very uncomfortable" with the idea of ​​replacing Sala, still missing, presumed dead by the time he rejected a dream change in the Premier League .

"The situation as a whole was very uncomfortable," Bowen told The Daily Mail.

"Of course, this has nothing to do with how I view Cardiff as a club, and any player will tell you that it's his dream to play in the Premier League.

"But the whole story around Sala was so tragic, I know it caused a lot of shock and worry in our locker room in Hull, and I'm sure it was the same in all of country.

"Joining Cardiff knowing that he was supposed to be playing for them would have been incredibly difficult and would not have aroused my enthusiasm.

"Of course, any transfer would have required Hull's approval in any case, but from my personal point of view, he was never a starter, not in those circumstances.

"Now we know for sure that Emiliano is dead." It always seems incredible that his life can be shortened in this way, it seems so cruel. "

Sala joined Cardiff City from Nantes in January before the plane that drove him from France to the Welsh capital for his first training session got stuck in the English Channel on January 21st.

Pilot David Ibbotson, 23, was aboard the light aircraft, which was discovered on the bottom of the sea on February 3 by a private search before Sala's body was found four days later. later.