Cardiff seek 120m euros from Nantes for goals AI says Sala would have scored had he not died

Cardiff Metropolis are claiming greater than 120m from Nantes as compensation for the dying of Emiliano Sala in a aircraft crash in 2019.

L’Equpe stories that the Welsh facet, who play within the Sky Guess Championship after being relegated from the Premier League in 2019, have filed a declare with the Nantes Industrial Courtroom looking for damages associated to their relegation from the Premier League… which they make declare was partly because of Sala’s dying.

The Welsh facet base their declare for compensation on evaluation by Analytics FC, a synthetic intelligence firm, which calculated that the Argentinian striker’s targets would have given them a 54.2% probability of avoiding relegation.

Analytics FC calculated with AI the anticipated targets and factors gained if Sala had performed for them throughout the second half of the season.

Authorized and monetary skilled Maurice Nussenbaum estimated Cardiff Metropolis’s monetary loss from relegation and reputational harm at round 120 million.

For its half, Nantes has filed a counter-claim, which in keeping with L’Equipe relies on “ethical harm”, and calls for that Cardiff be fined.

Chronology of the aircraft crash and dying of Emiliano Sala

Cardiff Metropolis had agreed a deal price greater than 6.8 million with Nantes to signal Emiliano Sala from the French membership, however the Piper Malibu aircraft carrying Sala to Wales to signal for the Welsh membership crashed within the English Channel.

On 21 January, radar misplaced monitor of the aircraft Emiliano Sala was flying to Cardiff within the English Channel.

The personal aircraft by which the striker was travelling misplaced monitor about 20 kilometres north of the English island of Guernsey.

On 30 January, potential wreckage of the plane was discovered and on 3 February the wreckage of the Piper PA-46 Malibu, registration N264DB, was situated on the backside of the English Channel.

On 4 February a physique was situated within the submerged aircraft, on 6 February it was recovered and on 7 February it was confirmed that the physique was that of Emiliano Sala, who was buried on 16 February within the city of Progreso.