FIFA orders Cardiff City to pay £5.3m of Emiliano Sala's £15m transfer fee to Nantes after striker's tragic death

World football governing body FIFA, has ruled that £5.3m of Emiliano Sala's £15m transfer fee must be paid by Cardiff City to French side Nantes after the striker died in a plane crash over the English Channel earlier this year.

Late Emiliano Sala: Carbon monoxide found in footballer’s body 'raises questions' over plane crash

Footballer Emiliano Sala and his pilot were exposed to harmful levels of carbon monoxide inside the cockpit of their private plane before it crashed into the Channel in January, air accident investigators have said.