Emiliano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:51 am
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What a humble down to earth lad
Emiliano Sala
Also went back to the kennels where his rescue dog was and was arranging for his dog to come over to Cardiff.
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Monday 4th February 2019
CARDIFF: Jean-Philippe Roussel pulled open the door of his hair salon.
It was early evening on Jan 19, dark and cold and already well past closing time for a Saturday. But Roussel, whose storefront is just down the street from the brasserie and the creperie and the modest church in the center of Carquefou, a French village on the outskirts of Nantes, stayed late to accommodate a friend. Emiliano Sala stepped inside.
Sala had called Roussel that morning. A forward for FC Nantes, a club near the bottom of the table in Ligue 1, Sala had just been in for a haircut two weeks earlier; normally, he waited three weeks between cuts.
This was different. After more than three seasons playing for Nantes, Sala, a 28-year-old Argentine, had been sold to Cardiff City of the English Premier League, a big deal for both clubs. Sala had signed his new contract Friday. He was to report to his new team Monday night. These days in the middle, then, were for saying goodbye.
So Sala made the rounds. He loved Carquefou, loved the quiet and the quaintness and the charm. He loved the farm behind his house, where his rescue dog, Nala, ran off the leash, skipping among ducks and chickens and cows, including a pair named Prune and Pomponette.
He loved the small vineyard, just across the road, where they make Muscadet wine and he could walk with Nala among the grapes. He loved the streams that spike off from the Erdre river, where his friends could fish for pike.
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He loved the people. He stopped to see Dominique and Martial, the butchers at Maison Garnier, where he bought veal Milanese twice a week and would sign autographs on cards that other customers left for him at the counter.
At the bakery, he saw Blandine, who knew to have a feuillantine, or apple pie, ready for him to buy on the day before every game. He went to the tabac, where he bought his cigarettes and walked past Snoopy Coif, where Alexia the groomer gave Nala her baths.
Sala finished at the salon. He and Roussel became close over the years - Roussel invited Sala to join his family at Disneyland two Christmases ago - and Roussel sensed Sala felt conflicted about his transfer.
Sala was not completely sure he wanted to leave France, but Nantes reportedly sold him for £15 million (about US$19.7m), and soccer is a business, Sala said. Even if Cardiff City isn't one of the Premier League's biggest clubs, it was an opportunity to step up in class, and Sala mentioned that one of his first games would be against Arsenal.
He told Roussel to come and visit him in Wales.
"Worst case, I'll come and cut your hair and we can watch some games," Roussel said, and they laughed.
After Roussel finished with Sala's standard tapered trim, Sala reached to pay and Roussel told him to put away his wallet. Sala then took a Nantes jersey from his bag and offered it as a gift. "I know it's not your favorite," he said - Roussel actually roots for Marseille, not Nantes - but Roussel cradled it. They hugged, and parted with damp eyes.
Sala's hairdresser, Jean-Philippe Roussel, sits with the shirt he received from the Nantes striker before he left for Cardiff.
The next day, Sala finished packing up his house, leaving one pile of furniture to be moved to Cardiff and another tabbed for the dump.
On Monday, he visited the training ground in Nantes, a city on the Loire River in western France, roughly 200 miles from Paris. He wanted to take one last picture with his teammates - he posted it on Instagram with the caption "La ultima ciao," or the "the last goodbye" - and he headed to the airport.
At 7pm, he boarded a small private plane with an English pilot, David Ibbotson. At 7.15pm, the single engine Piper PA-46 Malibu took off for Cardiff.
While in flight, Sala sent an audio message to a group chat that includes other Nantes players in which he said, relatively calmly, that he was tired from all he had done in Nantes and was headed to Cardiff for training with his new team.
He also said, in much the same exhausted tone, that he felt the plane "seems like it's falling apart."
At approximately 8.30pm, air traffic control in Jersey, one of the tiny Channel Islands between France and mainland Britain, received a request from the plane to descend. Moments later, the plane disappeared from radar at 2,300 feet.
A search began almost immediately. John Fitzgerald, who owns a custom photography studio and also leads the volunteers who make up the air search rescue team on Guernsey, another of the larger Channel Islands, just happened to be at the hangar when the distress call came in from the coast guard.
Fitzgerald and the other volunteers always train on Monday nights, and they had just finished a series of stress-management exercises.
Within 30 minutes, they were in the air, and with night-vision goggles in place, they retraced the path of the plane up until the point it dropped off the radar.
Other planes joined the search, and lifeboats went out, too, despite the high winds and choppy seas. Until 2am, beneath heavy clouds and a darkened moon, everyone scoured the murky waters, looking for any sign of the plane or a life raft or anything, really.
They found nothing.
There is a saying in French, mouiller le maillot, which translates literally as "wet the jersey" but is most commonly used to describe a player who sweats: a fighter, a battler, a tireless worker who never stops. It is high praise, and it is what the Nantes fans said about Sala all the time.
Perhaps that is why, as the news filtered out in Nantes late Monday and into Tuesday morning, there was initially a faith - blind, maybe, but faith nonetheless - that Sala would be found.
Fans flocked to the Nantes practice facility to leave flowers and cards and pictures and jerseys in front of the gates, lighting candles and writing letters to Sala. A poster with a large portrait of Sala's face and the words "GARDONS ESPOIR" ("keep hope") stretched along the fencing.
It was easy to understand. Sala's connection to Nantes, and to France, was special. He was born in Cululu, Argentina, but left home at 15 to join a development academy for young players in a neighboring Argentine province.
The academy had ties to Bordeaux, and Sala traveled to Europe over the next four years to play with different clubs before signing his first professional contract with Bordeaux in 2010. He was 19.
At first, it seemed he might not break through as a star, struggling to establish himself with the first team and being sent on loan to smaller clubs like Caen
It was not until July 2015, when Nantes bought him from Bordeaux, and he finished that season as the club's top goal scorer, that it felt he had arrived. He scored 42 times for Nantes over the next three-and-a-half seasons.
Sala's journey, as well as his penchant for fearlessly trying to score with his head, made him beloved by Nantes fans, who often chanted his name at the stadium. For those who saw him around town, his on-field steeliness morphed into a quiet passion.
Before games, he would stop at the Saint Pierre church to pray, falling to his knees next to the statue of the Virgin Mary. In September, when his mother was visiting, they prayed together and the priest, Guillaume Le Floch, was struck by Sala's quiet fervor.
He put his hand on Sala's shoulder. "Emiliano, may God bless you and guide you," he said. Sala nodded.
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What a humble down to earth lad
Emiliano Sala
Also went back to the kennels where his rescue dog was and was arranging for his dog to come over to Cardiff.
Channels News
Monday 4th February 2019
CARDIFF: Jean-Philippe Roussel pulled open the door of his hair salon.
It was early evening on Jan 19, dark and cold and already well past closing time for a Saturday. But Roussel, whose storefront is just down the street from the brasserie and the creperie and the modest church in the center of Carquefou, a French village on the outskirts of Nantes, stayed late to accommodate a friend. Emiliano Sala stepped inside.
Sala had called Roussel that morning. A forward for FC Nantes, a club near the bottom of the table in Ligue 1, Sala had just been in for a haircut two weeks earlier; normally, he waited three weeks between cuts.
This was different. After more than three seasons playing for Nantes, Sala, a 28-year-old Argentine, had been sold to Cardiff City of the English Premier League, a big deal for both clubs. Sala had signed his new contract Friday. He was to report to his new team Monday night. These days in the middle, then, were for saying goodbye.
So Sala made the rounds. He loved Carquefou, loved the quiet and the quaintness and the charm. He loved the farm behind his house, where his rescue dog, Nala, ran off the leash, skipping among ducks and chickens and cows, including a pair named Prune and Pomponette.
He loved the small vineyard, just across the road, where they make Muscadet wine and he could walk with Nala among the grapes. He loved the streams that spike off from the Erdre river, where his friends could fish for pike.
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He loved the people. He stopped to see Dominique and Martial, the butchers at Maison Garnier, where he bought veal Milanese twice a week and would sign autographs on cards that other customers left for him at the counter.
At the bakery, he saw Blandine, who knew to have a feuillantine, or apple pie, ready for him to buy on the day before every game. He went to the tabac, where he bought his cigarettes and walked past Snoopy Coif, where Alexia the groomer gave Nala her baths.
Sala finished at the salon. He and Roussel became close over the years - Roussel invited Sala to join his family at Disneyland two Christmases ago - and Roussel sensed Sala felt conflicted about his transfer.
Sala was not completely sure he wanted to leave France, but Nantes reportedly sold him for £15 million (about US$19.7m), and soccer is a business, Sala said. Even if Cardiff City isn't one of the Premier League's biggest clubs, it was an opportunity to step up in class, and Sala mentioned that one of his first games would be against Arsenal.
He told Roussel to come and visit him in Wales.
"Worst case, I'll come and cut your hair and we can watch some games," Roussel said, and they laughed.
After Roussel finished with Sala's standard tapered trim, Sala reached to pay and Roussel told him to put away his wallet. Sala then took a Nantes jersey from his bag and offered it as a gift. "I know it's not your favorite," he said - Roussel actually roots for Marseille, not Nantes - but Roussel cradled it. They hugged, and parted with damp eyes.
Sala's hairdresser, Jean-Philippe Roussel, sits with the shirt he received from the Nantes striker before he left for Cardiff.
The next day, Sala finished packing up his house, leaving one pile of furniture to be moved to Cardiff and another tabbed for the dump.
On Monday, he visited the training ground in Nantes, a city on the Loire River in western France, roughly 200 miles from Paris. He wanted to take one last picture with his teammates - he posted it on Instagram with the caption "La ultima ciao," or the "the last goodbye" - and he headed to the airport.
At 7pm, he boarded a small private plane with an English pilot, David Ibbotson. At 7.15pm, the single engine Piper PA-46 Malibu took off for Cardiff.
While in flight, Sala sent an audio message to a group chat that includes other Nantes players in which he said, relatively calmly, that he was tired from all he had done in Nantes and was headed to Cardiff for training with his new team.
He also said, in much the same exhausted tone, that he felt the plane "seems like it's falling apart."
At approximately 8.30pm, air traffic control in Jersey, one of the tiny Channel Islands between France and mainland Britain, received a request from the plane to descend. Moments later, the plane disappeared from radar at 2,300 feet.
A search began almost immediately. John Fitzgerald, who owns a custom photography studio and also leads the volunteers who make up the air search rescue team on Guernsey, another of the larger Channel Islands, just happened to be at the hangar when the distress call came in from the coast guard.
Fitzgerald and the other volunteers always train on Monday nights, and they had just finished a series of stress-management exercises.
Within 30 minutes, they were in the air, and with night-vision goggles in place, they retraced the path of the plane up until the point it dropped off the radar.
Other planes joined the search, and lifeboats went out, too, despite the high winds and choppy seas. Until 2am, beneath heavy clouds and a darkened moon, everyone scoured the murky waters, looking for any sign of the plane or a life raft or anything, really.
They found nothing.
There is a saying in French, mouiller le maillot, which translates literally as "wet the jersey" but is most commonly used to describe a player who sweats: a fighter, a battler, a tireless worker who never stops. It is high praise, and it is what the Nantes fans said about Sala all the time.
Perhaps that is why, as the news filtered out in Nantes late Monday and into Tuesday morning, there was initially a faith - blind, maybe, but faith nonetheless - that Sala would be found.
Fans flocked to the Nantes practice facility to leave flowers and cards and pictures and jerseys in front of the gates, lighting candles and writing letters to Sala. A poster with a large portrait of Sala's face and the words "GARDONS ESPOIR" ("keep hope") stretched along the fencing.
It was easy to understand. Sala's connection to Nantes, and to France, was special. He was born in Cululu, Argentina, but left home at 15 to join a development academy for young players in a neighboring Argentine province.
The academy had ties to Bordeaux, and Sala traveled to Europe over the next four years to play with different clubs before signing his first professional contract with Bordeaux in 2010. He was 19.
At first, it seemed he might not break through as a star, struggling to establish himself with the first team and being sent on loan to smaller clubs like Caen
It was not until July 2015, when Nantes bought him from Bordeaux, and he finished that season as the club's top goal scorer, that it felt he had arrived. He scored 42 times for Nantes over the next three-and-a-half seasons.
Sala's journey, as well as his penchant for fearlessly trying to score with his head, made him beloved by Nantes fans, who often chanted his name at the stadium. For those who saw him around town, his on-field steeliness morphed into a quiet passion.
Before games, he would stop at the Saint Pierre church to pray, falling to his knees next to the statue of the Virgin Mary. In September, when his mother was visiting, they prayed together and the priest, Guillaume Le Floch, was struck by Sala's quiet fervor.
He put his hand on Sala's shoulder. "Emiliano, may God bless you and guide you," he said. Sala nodded.
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Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 8:41 am
So very very sad .
What might have been .
He sounded a great lad and he would have been the perfect fit for us.
I still can't believe it.
RIP Emiliano and David.
What might have been .
He sounded a great lad and he would have been the perfect fit for us.
I still can't believe it.
RIP Emiliano and David.
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 8:50 am
Welling up just reading about him. Such a nice every day bloke, a far cry from most premier league footballers. He would have been an idol. RIP bluebird.
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:02 am
When you read all the stories one thing don't quite understand why the urgency for him to get back to city it appeares he had just 48 hrs to get to Nantes say goodbyes ect and return? Why when city had 10days off before arsenal game! Can't help feeling if there wasn't such a time restraint he would not have needed to fly at night for Tues morning training, glad found plane hopefully they find both of them so proper mourning and burials can take place
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:06 am
The fact that he went back in person to say a PROPER goodbye to all his team mates, friends and neighbors says a lot about this guy. Appears a very humble and likeable person who is going to be very much missed by many people.
Unfortunately he was caught in the middle of a bunch of money grabbing agents who were all trying to make a few bucks out of his transfer. He should never been on that plane and has now lost his life because of it.
Unfortunately he was caught in the middle of a bunch of money grabbing agents who were all trying to make a few bucks out of his transfer. He should never been on that plane and has now lost his life because of it.
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:15 am
He would have been a perfect fit for the current team and the club and would have gone on to have been the greatest striker in CArdiff City history and that’s a fact 
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 10:10 am
pembroke allan wrote:When you read all the stories one thing don't quite understand why the urgency for him to get back to city it appeares he had just 48 hrs to get to Nantes say goodbyes ect and return? Why when city had 10days off before arsenal game! Can't help feeling if there wasn't such a time restraint he would not have needed to fly at night for Tues morning training, glad found plane hopefully they find both of them so proper mourning and burials can take place
don't get what you do not get Al, its a job ,and like any job there is a first day { which most are keen to be punctual for }. and had NW decided to not train that day giving the players an extra day off A} would Emiliano just taken more time doing the farewell rounds and still travelled by night only a day later. or B} had they taken off in daylight what difference ? it does seem now that whatever happened it was very quick
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 10:21 am
since64 wrote:He would have been a perfect fit for the current team and the club and would have gone on to have been the greatest striker in CArdiff City history and that’s a fact
It isn’t though.
Sadly we will never find out.
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 10:33 am
dogfound wrote:pembroke allan wrote:When you read all the stories one thing don't quite understand why the urgency for him to get back to city it appeares he had just 48 hrs to get to Nantes say goodbyes ect and return? Why when city had 10days off before arsenal game! Can't help feeling if there wasn't such a time restraint he would not have needed to fly at night for Tues morning training, glad found plane hopefully they find both of them so proper mourning and burials can take place
don't get what you do not get Al, its a job ,and like any job there is a first day { which most are keen to be punctual for }. and had NW decided to not train that day giving the players an extra day off A} would Emiliano just taken more time doing the farewell rounds and still travelled by night only a day later. or B} had they taken off in daylight what difference ? it does seem now that whatever happened it was very quick
Maybe he would have still used up extra time but point trying to make us why did club insist he comcastle e back that night ? They knew he was as gp tonrepresentative was going to meet plane? Surely better option was for club to say come in morning granted may not changed situation regarding crash, as NW said if only insisted he go to ncastle things be different.
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 10:42 am
What about the club adopting the dog as a mascot?
What a tribute that would be.
What a tribute that would be.
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:52 am
maccydee wrote:since64 wrote:He would have been a perfect fit for the current team and the club and would have gone on to have been the greatest striker in CArdiff City history and that’s a fact
It isn’t though.
Sadly we will never find out.
Sadly, we won't and a strange comment from 'since64' that makes you wonder what planet some people are on!
The article in the OP is an incredibly sad one and one that shows Emiliano Sala to be a very humble and likeable young man trying to tie up some loose ends before he departs for his new life in the Welsh capital
For me, it shows the class of the individual and he would have been very welcome addition to our squad
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 12:41 pm
pembroke allan wrote:dogfound wrote:pembroke allan wrote:When you read all the stories one thing don't quite understand why the urgency for him to get back to city it appeares he had just 48 hrs to get to Nantes say goodbyes ect and return? Why when city had 10days off before arsenal game! Can't help feeling if there wasn't such a time restraint he would not have needed to fly at night for Tues morning training, glad found plane hopefully they find both of them so proper mourning and burials can take place
don't get what you do not get Al, its a job ,and like any job there is a first day { which most are keen to be punctual for }. and had NW decided to not train that day giving the players an extra day off A} would Emiliano just taken more time doing the farewell rounds and still travelled by night only a day later. or B} had they taken off in daylight what difference ? it does seem now that whatever happened it was very quick
Maybe he would have still used up extra time but point trying to make us why did club insist he comcastle e back that night ? They knew he was as gp tonrepresentative was going to meet plane? Surely better option was for club to say come in morning granted may not changed situation regarding crash, as NW said if only insisted he go to ncastle things be different.
sorry mate but I do not get what your saying.
our club like all clubs, have training days , game days and days off, Tuesday was training. he signed Friday and was not expected to travel to Newcastle so therefore had 3 days off had it been 4 days and the accident still happen you could be here saying why insist when there were 9 days..
surely you would expect a new signing be at work /training ?
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 12:50 pm
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:12 pm
Sven wrote:maccydee wrote:since64 wrote:He would have been a perfect fit for the current team and the club and would have gone on to have been the greatest striker in CArdiff City history and that’s a fact
It isn’t though.
Sadly we will never find out.
Sadly, we won't and a strange comment from 'since64' that makes you wonder what planet some people are on!
The article in the OP is an incredibly sad one and one that shows Emiliano Sala to be a very humble and likeable young man trying to tie up some loose ends before he departs for his new life in the Welsh capital
For me, it shows the class of the individual and he would have been very welcome addition to our squad
Just my little tribute to a young man who as you’ve said showed class but unlike you l choose to believe he would have been much better than a welcome addition,in my opinion he would have kept the club in the premier league,don’t believe that to be a strange comment in the least
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:16 pm
since64 wrote:Sven wrote:maccydee wrote:since64 wrote:He would have been a perfect fit for the current team and the club and would have gone on to have been the greatest striker in CArdiff City history and that’s a fact
It isn’t though.
Sadly we will never find out.
Sadly, we won't and a strange comment from 'since64' that makes you wonder what planet some people are on!
The article in the OP is an incredibly sad one and one that shows Emiliano Sala to be a very humble and likeable young man trying to tie up some loose ends before he departs for his new life in the Welsh capital
For me, it shows the class of the individual and he would have been very welcome addition to our squad
Just my little tribute to a young man who as you’ve said showed class but unlike you l choose to believe he would have been much better than a welcome addition,in my opinion he would have kept the club in the premier league,don’t believe that to be a strange comment in the least
I think best ever striker was the strange one.
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:28 pm
dogfound wrote:pembroke allan wrote:dogfound wrote:pembroke allan wrote:When you read all the stories one thing don't quite understand why the urgency for him to get back to city it appeares he had just 48 hrs to get to Nantes say goodbyes ect and return? Why when city had 10days off before arsenal game! Can't help feeling if there wasn't such a time restraint he would not have needed to fly at night for Tues morning training, glad found plane hopefully they find both of them so proper mourning and burials can take place
don't get what you do not get Al, its a job ,and like any job there is a first day { which most are keen to be punctual for }. and had NW decided to not train that day giving the players an extra day off A} would Emiliano just taken more time doing the farewell rounds and still travelled by night only a day later. or B} had they taken off in daylight what difference ? it does seem now that whatever happened it was very quick
Maybe he would have still used up extra time but point trying to make us why did club insist he comcastle e back that night ? They knew he was as gp tonrepresentative was going to meet plane? Surely better option was for club to say come in morning granted may not changed situation regarding crash, as NW said if only insisted he go to ncastle things be different.
sorry mate but I do not get what your saying.
our club like all clubs, have training days , game days and days off, Tuesday was training. he signed Friday and was not expected to travel to Newcastle so therefore had 3 days off had it been 4 days and the accident still happen you could be here saying why insist when there were 9 days..
surely you would expect a new signing be at work /training ?
Yes entirely agree if was any other job. But surely common sense would have said don't travel tonight come in morning. What was the rush for him to leave at night 8pm arrive Cardiff what gone 11pm it was a 500mile journey !! After all city's idea was leave nante mon morning go to paris catch commercial flight to london then drive to Cardiff! That doesn't sound like city were in hurry? Would missing one days training with game 9 further days away make that much difference? Like the rest of the events leading up to the decision to use small plane it seemed unnecessary
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:35 pm
maccydee wrote:since64 wrote:Sven wrote:maccydee wrote:since64 wrote:He would have been a perfect fit for the current team and the club and would have gone on to have been the greatest striker in CArdiff City history and that’s a fact
It isn’t though.
Sadly we will never find out.
Sadly, we won't and a strange comment from 'since64' that makes you wonder what planet some people are on!
The article in the OP is an incredibly sad one and one that shows Emiliano Sala to be a very humble and likeable young man trying to tie up some loose ends before he departs for his new life in the Welsh capital
For me, it shows the class of the individual and he would have been very welcome addition to our squad
Just my little tribute to a young man who as you’ve said showed class but unlike you l choose to believe he would have been much better than a welcome addition,in my opinion he would have kept the club in the premier league,don’t believe that to be a strange comment in the least
I think best ever striker was the strange one.
Apart from John Toshack and Robert Earnshaw I’m struggling to think of one player to compare him with to be honest, as and I’m not certain here did any other striker go onto play in the premier league and be successful
Re: Emilano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:19 pm
pembroke allan wrote:dogfound wrote:pembroke allan wrote:dogfound wrote:pembroke allan wrote:When you read all the stories one thing don't quite understand why the urgency for him to get back to city it appeares he had just 48 hrs to get to Nantes say goodbyes ect and return? Why when city had 10days off before arsenal game! Can't help feeling if there wasn't such a time restraint he would not have needed to fly at night for Tues morning training, glad found plane hopefully they find both of them so proper mourning and burials can take place
don't get what you do not get Al, its a job ,and like any job there is a first day { which most are keen to be punctual for }. and had NW decided to not train that day giving the players an extra day off A} would Emiliano just taken more time doing the farewell rounds and still travelled by night only a day later. or B} had they taken off in daylight what difference ? it does seem now that whatever happened it was very quick
Maybe he would have still used up extra time but point trying to make us why did club insist he comcastle e back that night ? They knew he was as gp tonrepresentative was going to meet plane? Surely better option was for club to say come in morning granted may not changed situation regarding crash, as NW said if only insisted he go to ncastle things be different.
sorry mate but I do not get what your saying.
our club like all clubs, have training days , game days and days off, Tuesday was training. he signed Friday and was not expected to travel to Newcastle so therefore had 3 days off had it been 4 days and the accident still happen you could be here saying why insist when there were 9 days..
surely you would expect a new signing be at work /training ?
Yes entirely agree if was any other job. But surely common sense would have said don't travel tonight come in morning. What was the rush for him to leave at night 8pm arrive Cardiff what gone 11pm it was a 500mile journey !! After all city's idea was leave nante mon morning go to paris catch commercial flight to london then drive to Cardiff! That doesn't sound like city were in hurry? Would missing one days training with game 9 further days away make that much difference? Like the rest of the events leading up to the decision to use small plane it seemed unnecessary
i wish he was late.
but unlike you he probably thought it a good idea to not miss his first day
Re: Emiliano Sala not only went back to say goodbye/ But
Tue Feb 05, 2019 12:21 pm
It's usually quite cliche (don't want sound harsh) when someone passes away to say he was this and that but reading the stories of what he was doing when he went back to sort everything like the hairdresser it's something not many players would do usually it's standard to just say bye to your teammates but by all accounts even when being in the top 3 goalscorers in Ligue 1 he was appreciated and never got ahead of himself as he was 'rumoured' to not come here originally but the stories speak volumes of Emiliano Sala, always a bluebird.