Early in the morning, the Girondins de Bordeaux published a message on the club’s social networks this Tuesday, to pay tribute to Emiliano Sala. The former club striker, who arrived on the banks of the Garonne in 2010, died six years ago in a plane accident. he was then in the process of joining Cardiff, two days after the formalization of his transfer to the Welsh club, which was then playing in the Premier League, from Nantes.
Six years later, Mehmet Dalman, the president of Cardiff City, in an interview with Guardianbelieves that no lessons have been learned from this tragedy. “What football needs is a big bang,” he explains. We must review the regulations (in particular) on agents and intermediaries in the sector. They are not subject to any regulations except for the basic license they require. »
“How is this possible?” »
In 2019, agent Willie McKay, who had no official mandate in England or France, served as an intermediary in Sala’s transfer and helped arrange the unlicensed private flight to Cardiff. “The transaction was carried out by an unauthorized agent,” continues Dalman. If clubs couldn’t use unlicensed agents this wouldn’t have happened. Two people lost their lives and no one was held responsible. How is this possible? »
-“No agent should be able to take a player belonging to another club and put him on a plane without the express agreement of this club,” adds the Cardiff manager, who has never managed to return to the Premier League since 2019. agent acting on behalf of a selling club would make arrangements for a player belonging to a buying club. This would never happen in a fully regulated environment. »
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