Cardiff: We have not paid the value of the Sala deal, but we will.

LONDON (Reuters) – The city of Cardiff said Thursday that it has not yet paid for the move of Argentine striker Emiliano Sala, who has disappeared, to Nantes.

But Cardiff City President Mohamed Dalman said his club would pay the first installment of the Sala Lant deal as soon as possible.

According to reports in the press Wednesday evening, Nantes has asked Cardiff to send the value of the transfer of 15 million euros Sala.

After signing a contract with Cardiff City, Argentine striker Sala 28 years old in Brazil, who is transporting from Barcelona, ​​disappeared from the radar screen across the English Channel.

After announcing the suspension of the player's official search on January 24, 260,000 pounds ($ 340,000) were collected to fund private research.

The British authorities announced Wednesday night that they had managed to recover a body in the wreckage of the plane carrying Emiliano Sala and pilot David Abbotson, who had been lost on the English Channel on 21 January.

This occurred a few days after the wreckage was located north of the island of Guernsey.

The British Air Accident Investigation Division confirmed that the body had been found but did not specify where it had been identified.

"All I can say is that it's sensitive," Dalman told the French newspaper L'Equipe. "I'm confident that all that is said, is that Cardiff will pay the value of the batch transaction, that's right."

"Frankly, I do not want to talk about it again."

When asked why the transaction had not been paid yet, he replied, "The first reason is that the body has not been found yet."

"As we must be respected towards his family, efforts are already being made and there is no time yet to comment," he said.