The email from Willie McKay to Emiliano Sala before his transfer to Cardiff City

An email in which the British football agent Willie McKay told the sentenced footballer Emiliano Sala "We are not interested in your personal belongings", appeared in France.

This comes after McKay admitted to having staged the flight in which the 28-year-old striker would certainly have died while he had left France to join his new club, Cardiff City.

McKay, 59, one of the best-known wheeler resellers in professional football, had also been involved in negotiating the £ 15m transfer on the French side of Nantes, but viewed his role as "just business". .

The alleged accident was likely to kill Salah and the 59-year-old driver David Ibbotson was held last Monday.

Shortly before, on January 6, the agent had written for the first time in Sala, according to the sports daily L'Equipe.

In an e-mail published by the French point of sale, it is written: "Emiliano, I'm calling Willie McKay.Your personal belongings do not interest us; finances, holidays, babysitting, it's not our business. "

Mr. McKay wrote about several million business books involving players from French clubs in the United States, including Chelsea and Arsenal, and wrote: "We make transfers!

"Let us introduce you to how we operate and how we arrived at this saga of Cardiff City.We work for clubs in France and for players who wish to be transferred to England.

"As far as you're concerned, we've talked to all the clubs, including Manchester, Chelsea, Liverpool, and we think you could end up in such clubs.

"We have approached Nantes, like many other club players, to get the sales mandate, and we do not stop you from working with another agent, but most players are very satisfied with our mediation.

"We do not say 'we are like a father to a son to our players'. No, if you had not been a footballer, these people would not be interested in you.

"Ultimately, they are only interested in money, which we all want, of course.That's why we love to work only with clubs." No feelings, we only do business. "

Referring specifically to the Cardiff City Agreement, Mr. McKay wrote: "In my experience, if you do not play for the Premier League now, you will regret it.

"It was said that Cardiff did not interest you, but it's probably our mistake, because we have" leaked "in the media that other clubs like West Ham and Everton want you. Interest for you.

"It's our way of working and it can be misinterpreted by the player, but without this buzz, nobody knows you because, honestly, nobody is following the French competition. [Ligue 1]. "

In an interview with the Team, Mr. McKay admits: "If I had never asked Nantes for a mandate to negotiate the transfer of Sala, he would still be with us."

Referring to his entire family – including his wife and three sons – McKay admits that "the last eight days have been a nightmare for us".

Mr. McKay admits that the very experienced pilot he chose to fly Sala from France to Wales recruited a replacement airman.

The details of this arrangement came after the discovery of two cushions of the plane in which Sala would have died following a crash in the English Channel.

Mr. McKay helped negotiate Sala's transfer to Cardiff, and learned that Sala wanted to spend a day in Nantes meeting with club officials and former teammates.

Cardiff offered him a commercial flight for the trip, but Mr. McKay offered him a "free" private plane.

The pilot chosen by Mr. McKay was David Henderson, a 60-year-old man who flew light aircraft around the world, including the Piper Alpha PA-46 that was to be used for the trip.

However, for unknown reasons, Henderson was hired by another British driver, David Ibbotson, 59 years old.

"Do you want to spend a weekend in Nantes?" Said Mr. Henderson to Mr. Ibbotson, a part-time pilot.

Mr. Henderson paid Mr. Ibbotson's hotel in France and the flight itself.

The details of Mr. Henderson were thus communicated to officials of the Nantes-Atlantique airport, which made fear for the first time that he piloted the condemned flight.

In fact, it was Mr. Ibbotson who took control of the plane and aborted three attempts to take off in bad weather.

An hour after the flight, Mr. Ibbotson told the Air Traffic Control that he was reducing the altitude from 5,000 to 2,300 feet over the Channel Islands.

It later appeared that the signing of Cardiff's record had expressed fears for his life in messages sent to close friends.

In a WhatsApp voice memo, he said in Spanish: "I'm in a plane that seems to collapse."

Aviation experts have said the chartered single-engine plane should not have risked flying in icy conditions.