The Nantes commercial court partially rules in favor of the FCN in the Sala affair

Same rejection by the court, against the FCN, concerning the expert reports provided by Cardiff to estimate the “damage suffered” following the loss of the player, who never played for the Bluebirds. To arrive at the claimed amount of €122.2 million, Cardiff City enlisted the services of the company Analytics FC, specializing in “data science” football. She had weathered the vagaries ofexpected goals andexpected pointsin order to establish the probability that Cardiff would have had of remaining in the Premier League, at the time, with the Argentine striker in its ranks. It is on this basis that Maurice Nussenbaum, a French legal and financial expert, also mandated by Cardiff, was able to establish the “loss of chance and value” club figures.