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February 4, 2019, 9:11am

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This is such a sad story. For me it is made even sadder by the way it all came about through an agent Willie McKay. From The Telegraph -

McKay admits making arrangements for the doomed flight, having told his usual pilot David Henderson: "Dave, I need a plane." However, unbeknownst to McKay, part-time engineer Dave Ibbotson, 59, was at the controls when the Piper Malibu went missing on January 21 after leaving Nantes for Cardiff.

In the prior email, McKay told Sala how Cardiff "will pay you around £50,000-per-week, plus bonuses, on a contract of four to five years. And whoever accompanies you, whether it is your agent or your mother, who, according to English law, can represent you, could claim around £1m from the deal."

He added: "It is said that you did not want to go to Cardiff. It is probably our fault because we have said in the media that other clubs like West Ham, Everton, etc were interested in order to create an interest around you."

McKay suggests he can eventually get Sala a move to "Manchester, Liverpool and Chelsea" should he sign for Cardiff. He wrote on Jan 8: "We are not interested in personal affairs; finances, holidays, baby-sitting, that is not our business."

McKay referenced the multi-million pound deals that his family had been involved in, adding: "We make transfers! More than 600 until today, from Didier Drogba, to (Nicolas) Anelka, (Dimitri) Payet, (Jean Michael) Seri, (André-Frank Zambo) Anguissa. Let us introduce you to the way we operate and how we came to this Cardiff City saga. We work for clubs in France, and for players who want to be transferred to England. As far as you are concerned, we have talked to all the clubs, including Manchester, Chelsea, Liverpool. We think you could end up in such clubs.

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty."

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