The affair around the death of Emiliano Sala resurfaces a few days or even hours before the final outcome. The final procedure has begun, the opportunity for the mother of the former Canary to make a poignant testimony.
« He was a young man with his whole life ahead of him, full of dreams for the future […] Cardiff put a lot of pressure on him to complete the sale quickly, but Nantes wanted more money and he felt in the middle of it. He felt in doubt. These weeks have been intense. It’s true that Emi was very happy when he finally accepted the idea of the transfer, because it gave him the chance to play in the Premier League. He thought the time had come to change clubs and leagues. It seemed to her that the management of Nantes was also pushing for her departure from the club because she had financial problems. […] I had spoken to him on Saturday and he told me that he had a lot of problems (to settle) in Nantes. When we didn’t hear from him I thought he must have been exhausted when he arrived in Wales and fell asleep. keep looking. In very cold weather, we toured the Channel Islands, calling out Emi’s name, hoping to hear from her. It ended in pain. A pain that remains to this day. No one can bring us back Emi […] Our grief will never go away and it will always be with us. All we ask is that justice be done and that no detail be overlooked to establish what happened.«
Words that remind us of very bad memories when Emiliano Sala had to fly away for a whole new adventure in England. The tragic night of January 22, 2019 will be remembered forever. As a reminder, the pilot David Henderson, organizer of the theft of the FC Nantes striker, was found guilty “ imprudence or negligence likely to have endangered a device. A sentence of 18 months in prison was pronounced against the 67-year-old man.
